I had a discussion with @[email protected] recently where they insisted that Anarchists on Hexbear accept Lenin’s analysis of Imperialism and therefore all support “Actual Existing Socialist” states such as Cuba, USSR and I guess North Korea as well.
In fact, they argued it’s the reason most anarchists of Hexbear don’t like to discuss anarchism away from hexbear, explicitly because outside anarchists do not support “AES”.
So I’m curious to see what your thoughts are on this. If you’re an anarchist who supports “AES” how do you square this support with the conflict these states have with anarchist theory on hierarchy?
From what I’ve gathered, Hexbear is just incredibly tankie driven. It wouldn’t surprise me if there are self-proclaimed “anarchists” on there that are just tankies painted black, du to social pressure.
As many have pointed out: anarchists usually don’t support “AES”. The spectrum I’ve seen ranges from “1917 was actually a bourgeois revolution” to “they tried but got corrupted in some way”.