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?
No. Broadly the way I’ve squared it is that I support specific policies and adopting of said policies, where even if they are not anarchist in principle properly benefit the working class or limit oppression in some capacity, if a state implements these I will support that decision, but not the existence of that state or more generally a state at all.