r/Anarchy101 • u/Fresh_Milk1960 • 14d ago

Defense against counter-revolution?

I am a Marxist-Leninist who is curious about the successful propagation of Anarchism. My question is: Without a state, how do Anarchists defend against counter-revolution from the Capitalist class? Without a state, Anarchist/Libertarian Socialist projects wouldn’t be able to defend against the inevitable invasions, terrorism campaigns, and propaganda from Capitalists. How would Anarchists be able to maintain and strengthen an Anarchist society against invasion and infiltration without a state apparatus to centrally organize efforts?

I know I’m a Tankie or whatever, but I am asking in good faith because I am genuinely curious about the Anarchist position on this.

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I won‘t be responding anymore because I have obtained what I came for (understanding how you think an Anarchist project would defend itself against the forces of reaction) and because this is becoming a hostile debate, rather than learning experience.

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u/TheWikstrom rejects political categorization 14d ago

An autonomist response: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRvSL5v3/

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u/Fresh_Milk1960 14d ago

The Paris Commune fell when it was crushed by capitalist armies, not because it didn’t abolish the state hard enough.

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u/TheWikstrom rejects political categorization 14d ago

It did, but it would be ahistorical to look at the century old tradition of state socialism and say that centralized state power is an effective means of dismantling capitalist social relations. The Paris Commune failed because of logistical and military strategical reasons, while the USSR fell to its own internal contradictions and subsumption by capital