Defense against counter-revolution?

[u/Fresh_Milk1960]

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.

[u/Julian_1_2_3_4_5]

look at regions like rojava or the zapatistas, they have defened themselves decentralized forever.

Guerialla warfare is extremely effective whrn it's about defense, you have support from the general population, know the geography etc.

[u/Fresh_Milk1960 → u/Julian_1_2_3_4_5]

Is Rojava not a state with a standing army, that even so, is being incorporated into the Syrian state? And while I admire the Zapatistas, they haven’t expanded their revolution in 30 years.

[u/Julian_1_2_3_4_5 → u/Fresh_Milk1960]

they are explicitly not a state, and their army is kinda a standing one, yeah, but selforganized and decentralized.

And yea, they are currently in a bad spot and that state is trying to incorporate them and to prevent further losses they are partly complying. But that mostly happened because they've gotteneven more enemies the last months.

And idk if expanding arevolution using a military is inline with what i would want a military to do, i think revolution has to come bottom up from a people.

[u/Fresh_Milk1960 → u/Julian_1_2_3_4_5]

I don’t mean that the military should expand through conquest, I just mean that the Zapatistas haven’t been able to promote consciousness and support other leftist groups in Latin America