By Cake Boy
I see a lot of authoritarian/totalitarian political influence in modern anarchism.
We have leftist anarchists, who say that Maoists are ‘their comrades’.
This is ridiculous. Maoist China was a totalitarian state, and you anarchists are supposedly against states? There has never been a more powerful, intrusive, inhuman state than the Maoist communist state.
When you read about anarchism in Cuba, you see that the Cuban anarchists flee to the US once Cuba becomes communist. Why do you think this is the case? Because they know they will get a lot of problems, as anarchists, in a communist dictatorship
We have some nationalists, anarchists, who believe the Holocaust didn’t happen, and they think fascism is somehow ‘interesting’.
To the national anarchists, I would say: Of course, the Holocaust happened. Totalitarian systems create death camps. As an anarchist or libertarian, you could understand this. States kill masses of people. This is the reason anarchists are critical of states. The Holocaust is the reason anarchism has a point in the first place.
Anarchism says: look what happens when bureaucracy gets out of hand. Then you get holocausts, gulags, piles of skulls, look what can happen, with centralised power. Look how a state can turn into something like nazism. Centralisation is dangerous, so you want decentralisation. You find the same argument in the works of Mises and Hayek.
The current Zionists indeed use antisemitism as a political weapon, as a reason for their horrible politics. But that doesn’t mean that antisemitism doesn’t exist.
It is true that they use the Holocaust to legitimize their acts of cruelty. But that doesn’t mean the Holocaust didn’t happen.
A lot of Jews hold political and financial power, they will say.
The fact that a lot of Jews hold power in the US doesn’t mean the Holocaust didn’t happen, and it doesn’t mean antisemitism doesn’t exist. It also doesn’t mean there is some bigger plan going on. If there are conspiracies (which there probably are) than we don’t know about it. Because, otherwise, it wouldn’t be a conspiracy. If we all knew what’s going on, then it would not be a ‘secret agenda’ anymore…
For the analysis of state power, it’s not important if the people in power are Jews, Arabs, Christians, Buddhists, or whatever. Centralised/political Power is power, in black hands or in white hands, in religious hands or in secular hands. If the Jews didn’t have that power, another ethnicity would have it, and they would do the same things. Predation comes in all colors and forms.
Capitalism doesn’t change when it’s in the hands of arabs or white people. Communism doesn’t change when it’s in the hands of black people instead of Chinese people.
Some people will say, Why can’t you question the holocaust, but you can question other genocides? Besides, whether you are allowed to question it by law or not, it did happen. It’s a bit strange that you can’t question one genocide, but can question another, I agree. There are more things in the culture that are taboo or inconsistent. But that doesn’t mean the holocaust didn’t happen. And it doesn’t mean it’s all part of some bigger agenda.
Then they will say, there were not 6 million Jews killed, but 2 million, or something like that. Maybe it was 5 million, maybe it was 9 million. Maybe the historians don’t know the exact number. But all of this is not that important. We understand that the Nazi fools killed millions, and this is seen as a problem…As you can imagine…
When you see the images of the Nazis, the rants, the mass formation, the marching boots, the insanity in their eyes, than its not that hard to imagine a holocaust coming out of something like that, you only need a little bit of political/psychological insight.
My grandparents told me stories about the Holocaust. I have seen the holes in the wall where the Germans shot. My family has been in camps. For Americans, all of this is a bit more abstract.
Within modern libertarianism, we have the Hoppe supporters who flirt with South American fascism. They post memes about killing union leaders, and they are praising dictators like Pinochet.
As if Chilean fascism had anything to do with free markets, individual freedom, free speech, the values libertarians support. South American fascism was the most brutal form of crony capitalism/corporatism possible. A cruel state that didn’t accept any political dissent.
People will say I’m indoctrinated by mainstream culture and media. The fact that something is said by a mainstream person doesn’t mean that it’s untrue by definition. Not everything you learn from school or the media is nonsense. Some things they teach you are actually true. It’s not black/white.
Also, when someone from the mainstream says something, it’s nonsense. But when you read it on an alternative site on the internet, is it true by definition? The alternative site can’t make things up? Are they always right? When a site on the internet says the holocaust didn’t happen, is it true? When a site says jews made Atlantis, is it true? Is it true when a site says there were no people on the moon? When a site says there are many lizard people, is it true?
If anarchism for the next era wants to be successful, it needs to get out of authoritarian influence. Out of Marxism and out of racial/fascist discourse.
After that, it needs to connect the left and the right libertarianism, somehow. Maybe its too much asked, i don’t know. I think this is the only way people can save the political tradition.
Cake Sensei
