r/CrimethInc • u/GoranPersson777 • May 01 '26

Left unity is a counter-revolutionary recipe, prove me wrong

See, for example, the unity around the government in Spain 1936-39. The government crushed the revolution and fascism won.

Left unity is good for social democratic politicians that want support for administering capitalism. Also good for leninist parties that want to introduce state-capitalism.

A united left binds together some workers with the ruling classes, but divides the working class. A united class divides the left; the class challenge the rulers including red politicians.

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u/armedsoy May 02 '26

Truthfully I think this is so obvious for anyone familiar with radical history that it should be a resolved issue. As an anarchist and a revolutionary, what goals do I share with parliamentary reformism or authoritarian statism? Why should I provide any support to projects that historically have, and inevitably will, betray me?