By Cake Boy

You know, people like Kevin Carson and Cake Boy always said that anarchism in the present time in the West could only develop slowly through the dual power strategy. The mutualist strategy, in which you set up your own institutions, and so ignore the state. It’s the evolutionary perspective. The idea is that something as big as cultural/political change needs a lot of time. The way a tree grows.

But what if we are wrong? We could be wrong, of course.

With Luigi Mangione’s attack on the CEO, I started to think differently about the potential for dramatic political change.

We see that a young man kills a health insurance CEO, and millions of Americans applaud this! I didn’t expect this to happen. In my country, the culture is a bit different. Americans seemingly have a sort of revolutionary fire, but the people in my country do not.

In my culture, they would say Magione did something against the law, so he is a bad person.

America is a sort of Third World country in which there is obscene social inequality, corruption, and overall inhuman conditions for millions of people. Meanwhile, the Americans are all armed. A situation like that could get out of hand. We already saw that the Trump supporters actually stormed this capitol. Something like that would also never happen in my country/culture (European country). America has millions of people with guns, who have nothing left to lose, what could go wrong?

And I’m not propagating for revolution. I’m not telling you what to do. If a revolution in America would start, I would not join the revolutionaries cause I’m not an anarchist like that. I wouldn’t want to die for some cause.

We can consider: What would happen if a revolt started in America? What would the different factions do?

I think someone like Keith Preston would start up a pluralist anarchist movement/militia. Libertarians and some leftist anarchists (the more class-oriented ones) would join this movement. There are more intellectuals like Preston, who are very, very serious about their anarchism and who actually want to put it into practice. They would take the chance out of the shadows into the daylight. To, in a way, crown their life’s work.

A lot of normal people, and ‘lumpen proletariat’ people, would join this anarchist/populist movement. The millions of people who applaud the attack on the CEO but who are not communists or woke. These kinds of people are the actual fuel for an anarchist mass movement—the people who hate the system but who are not Marxists. There are a lot of them. In a way, they are the apolitical masses, who are the fundament of the system. The hard-working people and the people in the streets. Construction workers, students in dept, and prostitutes.

I think the libertarian movement would split. Some would join the anarchists, and some would join the reaction.

A reaction consisting of democrats and republicans. They both want to maintain neoliberal monopoly capitalism/corporatism. In the end, Elon Musk and Kamala Harris aren’t that different. The Marxists are correct with this statement.

The communists would seize the moment and set up a red army. We have seen that the communists in America stood up again and were serious about their movement. Someone like Haz Aldin is competent enough to become a communist warlord.

When it comes to the woke college students and Antifa kids, some of them would join the communist movement, and a lot of them would join the reaction (fighting for the Democratic wing of the reaction).

When it comes to the conservative/Jordan Peterson right? They would all join the reaction. They join the Republicans, restoring ‘law and order’ and ‘family values.’

When it comes to Bernie Sanders supporters, they might support the communists or the anarchist force. I think, in the end, a lot of socialists are actually more sympathetic to anarchism than to communism. But I could be wrong. Maybe they would set up their own militia; this is also possible. The question is, how strong are they? In my country, socialism is pretty weak. Leftists are either woke neoliberals or communists.

The Georgist movement? They would probably join the anarchist revolt. Georgism always had a link with anarchism. In a way, George created his theory out of Proudhonian market economics. And Georgists have this duel focus on both individual freedom and political change, which anarchists also have.

When it comes to white supremacists. There are not a lot of them. Maybe a handful of them would join the anarchists in the hope the anarchists might give them a chance to perform self-rulership within a ‘whites only’ domain.  But as I said before, they are too small to be concerned with.

All the Palestine supporters who have Middle Eastern roots (and who often have conservative/Muslim values)? They would probably join the communists. We have seen how communists and Palestinian activists joined forces last year.

Millions of people would flee the USA if a revolution like this happened (understandably).

If I had no choice but to fight in a militia? Then, I would, of course, join the anarchists.

A situation like this would clear up a lot of confusion. People would show their true colors, and you would see what people actually believe. I think we would see that the current so-called anarchist movement isn’t anarchist and that the real anarchists will be the people who never called themselves that way. We will also see that a lot of so-called radicals are actually Harris supporters.

For example, I know a very woke/leftist college student. He was very confused about the death of the CEO. He didn’t know if he was for or against it. All the while, the millions of people in the streets, who are not woke and who are not ‘leftist’, applauded the killing of the CEO. This is so interesting to see.

History would repeat itself. Again, anarchism and communism would compete with each other. The new anarchist movement will look different than before because it has also incorporated the libertarians into its structure. The question would be, would anarchism, this time, be able to win from communism? Have they grown after all these years after the Spanish Civil War? How strong is current-day communism?

These are, of course, all speculations. But I think I’m pretty close with my analysis. And it’s something to keep in the back of your head. What would I do if ‘shit hits the fan’?

If we are in the 19^th century again, which some intellectuals say, then revolution could happen again.

And if a revolution happens, the stupid neoliberal plutocrats created it themselves. They made the people desperate. They abused the people. Sometimes, the masses stand up. We have seen this happening in history before.