Take Rojava as an example: they built a system of councils that didn't yield any real power until their day came (2011 if I'm not mistaken) and after the revolution, there was no power vacuum but this decentralized system took over. Same idea is anarcho syndicalism: they do union work now but are ready to run the factory/company when the opportunity is there.
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Build a stateless, hierarchy-critical, egalitarian society that rivals the hegemony of states
I know this is a tankie instance so I didn't downvote but I'm surprised again and again how ignorant tankies are about the concept of prefiguration or "unity of means and ends" or "building the new in the shell of the old" or what ever you want to call it. It's not about the state vanishing over night but about building a dual power that will fight the authority of the state. It's the same type of people who say anarchists can't read that have no idea about actual anarchist theory. Do better. Leave this strawman behind. It never was true and didn't age well.
Since this is an anarchist instance, I was willing to give OP the benefit of a doubt that this is against states in general but, alas, reading their comments it is whataboutism
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I'm almost sure I won't get a serious answer but how is a joke about a specific person racist? It's not about stereotypes, just similarity to a cartoon figure. I live in Europe and my head of state looks like Mr Burns (he really does). Is that racism against white people? What is the difference?
So a CEO is working class because they get salary while a stakeholder who owns like a fraction of 1% and has nothing to say is a capitalist? The binary class system of Marx' time has nothing to do with modern times.
Also: I always hear Marxists refer to "socialist states" as if non of them ever reached statelessness. I wonder why.
Thanks, I was more commenting on the difference between instances and painted a flattened picture of tankies. I'm aware that tankies are willing to criticize Stalin and shouldn't have made such a stupid joke.
That said, you might guess from my instance that I disagree with the notion your quoting. When tankies say how bourgeois states are bad I agree because states in general are bad to varying degrees and in different ways but all states are authoritarian. For me, socialist state is an oxymoron and neither Lenin nor Stalin substantially worked towards a free, stateless society. That's what Bakunin predicted in his exchange with Marx, Kropotkin warned Lenin about, Goldman criticized after Kronstadt, ...
Kropotkin started a school of thought that describes stateless, egalitarian societies. Recent authors like Graeber, Gelderloos and J. C. Scott follow this tradition. The reason that it is difficult to find recent examples is that both bourgeois and bolshevik states work together to smash anti-state movements like the Makhnovshchina or the anarchosyndicalists in Spain, or more recently Rojava and the Zapatistas.
On most instances, I would assume this to be sarcastic; on grad and hex I would assume it to be serious but on .ml I'm unsure
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I love this, it shows how being good at (multiple choice) tests doesn't mean you're good at the topic. I'm not good at tests because my country's education system priorities understanding and problem solving. That's why we fail at PISA
This is wrong. We have a strong police force. Take squatting for example. The anarchist view would be, if you don't use a house in any form, it isn't yours anymore and someone else can take it. The neoliberal police state will force you out of it. The state enforces private and foreign interests. You can't tell me that ICE is a sign of a do nothing state to take another example.