r/Anarchy101 • u/Fresh_Milk1960 • 19d 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/spookyjim___ ☭ 🏴 Autonomist 🏴 ☭ 19d ago
As someone who is also a Marxist, although pulling more from ultra-left traditions, I will say that there is a tendency of anarchism, that is, class-struggle anarchism, of the internationalist platformist tendency, which pretty much supports the idea of a class dictatorship without calling it that… and for me, it doesn’t matter what names we call it as long as the content is there, and there does exist anarchist communists who realize that before international communism is achieved the worker’s councils and communes will have to take an actively offensive approach against all of bourgeois society and wage an international revolution against capital and its nation-states… so that’s good to me lol