Strawman - most anarchists acknowledge that it takes a transitional period to get from capitalism to communism. Any ML who claims that (all) anarchists refuse to accept that just didn’t bother engaging in anarchist theory.

The main difference to authoritaian socialists (as opposed to libertarian socialists) when it comes to the transitionary period is that they take means-ends-unity into account.

Both are valid

Explain how!

Statistically, you will live a middle life, on average. Like, by definition.

There must be anal beads with pokeball motive.

It had nothing that made the first season(s) interesting. It’s not horrible, just incredibly boring.

Too bad that the music selection is so tiny that you basically need mods with more (lore-friendly) music.

It’s probably by Ursus Wehrli

Good riddance then, I guess.

The point is that the two things are in fact not diametrically opposed. Russia is a capitalist, imperial power. As is the USA. As is Iran and China.

The notion that two things can be bad at once is actually an antidote to the thought terminating cliche of “the enemy of my enemy is my ally”. It encourages to actually analyse the two things that are supposedly diametrically opposed at their own merits.

It used to be common for leftists not to condone any war effort by capitalist/imperialist states, because there is nothing to gain. But now, campist “leftists” (I can use scare-quotes to childishly delegitimize self-proclaimed “leftists”, too) are laser-focused in their anti-americanism that they don’t see what’s happening around them anymore.

When the “lesser” evil is an openly genocidal liberal politician, they bang on and on about how it’s tactical and a step in a direction and trolley problem and blah blah blah.

I agree. Therefore I condone neither politicians nor states. Because “both things” are “bad”, as it were.

Do you disagree with the statement that two things can be bad at once?

Noo, if you admit that there can be more than one bad thing, you’ve fallen for western propaganda! For there is only one bad thing: The bourgeoisie west!

/s

And he is correct because he actually spent time learning about it.

As someone living in Germany, I can confidently tell you:

Nah.

A few days ago, I had a discussion whether or not to invite explicitly zionist orgs to an antinational event.

While I argued that being zionist and antinational are mutually-exclusive, I received the weird comment by a self-described anarchist that “you don’t have to focus your antinationalism on the only jewish state and refuge”.

Bitch, it’s not me who’s focussing on “the jewish state”, it’s you who’s bending over backwards to protect a genocidal, imperialist power because your grandpa was a nazi!

How do you spot a German at a leftist event?
It’s the one who’s telling you that you don’t get how antisemitism works.

When’s the last time you checked if your backup solution works?