"actually existing socialism"

that the USSR is the default example of socialism is a tragedy

authoritarians hate diversity

Whoever says "proletarian State" says "State Capitalism," whoever says "dictatorship of the Proletariat" says "Dictatorship of the Communist Party;" whoever says "strong government" says "Tsarist oligarchy of politicians."

— Camillo Berneri

Lenin made the world worse by existing

marxists on chomsky and anarchists

why marxists are often like liberals

unfortunately most marxists are anti-communist

merry christmas everyone 🌲

most leftists don't actually challenge the status quo but seek a mere rearrangement of affairs

“Be not deceived! What you need is to secure the well-being of your families—their daily bread—and this no government can give you.”

— Ricardo Flores Magón

there is no such thing as a revolutionary government

"For us Anarchists the dictature of an individual or of a party (at bottom the very same thing) has been finally condemned.

We know that Revolution and Government are incompatible; one must destroy the other, no matter what name is given to government, whether dictature, royalty, or parliament."

— Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary Government, 1892

"Government itself is a class relation.

You can’t abolish class society without abolishing the asymmetry between ruler and ruled. Economics is only one of many spheres in which codified power differentials are imposed by means of social constructs; politics is another.

Private ownership of capital is to economics what state power is to politics."

https://crimethinc.com/2018/05/29/theres-no-such-thing-as-revolutionary-government-why-you-cant-use-the-state-to-abolish-class

marxists stop doing capitalism challenge: impossible

"Whosoever looks back on the history of Socialism after the exclusion of the Anarchists can see for themselves the gradual degeneration of Marxism as a political philosophy through the interpretations and practices of the Social-Democrats.

Leninism constitutes, without any doubt, a return to the revolutionary spirit of Marxism, but it also constitutes a return to the fallacies and abstractions of Marxist metaphysics."

— Camillo Berneri, Dictatorship of the Proletariat and State Socialism (1936)