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The State and Effective Resistance in Fascist Times (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Hello everyone, I wanted to reach out to anarchisticially thinking people because quite frankly I am very worried. I am worried about the rise of fascist and fascist-aligned governments around the world, obviously.

But on the flipside I am also worried about leftist reactions and quite frankly the absolute failure of leftist politics to capitalize on the brief window of momentum we had in the period of 2011 to around 2023. We had political momentum, we had the sympathy of much of the western world, we had many governments. What did we do with it? Not much. Now, the dialectical tide is turning as state power is in the process of being handed back to the right. Perhaps for good.

So how do we deal with this new reality? The worrying reaction I see in most leftist spaces is nothing but defeated groaning, meaningless phrases and ideological posturing. Do we have a plan? Do we have coherent guiding principles? Forms of organization? How do we get there?

I realize those are big and open ended questions, but I believe in our collective ability to think big. Because otherwise we might be doomed.

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[–] mydude 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sure, it's a way. But if one fights a war, they should better be prepared to win. The outpouring of support for Luigi when he was trying to evade the state was touching, but also ineffective right? I mean, he was caught. In a mcDonalds. In a better world, he would have had a safehouse to go to and comrades to bring McDonalds to him.

[–] HasturInYellow 1 points 3 weeks ago

It is near impossible to safely form groups these days. At least the sorts of groups you'd want for the sorts of actions needed to achieve even the smallest goal.

The state will ruthlessly hunt down and/infiltrate those groups. So it devolves to single actors to start the real uprising whereby the feds will be too overwhelmed with sheer numbers of people joining the groups to hunt them all down.

This feels rather unlikely all told. But I do hope we see more people with a strong spine like Luigi. Ironic that it took breaking it to forge it into gleaming steel.

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