Literally had an anarchist dip out of a DnD game I run recently because they found out that I'm a "tankie."
I don't give a fuck what flavor of leftist you are. Let's actually get power before we start arguing.
IRL anarchists here do like, food not bombs and have built shelters for the homeless cause the city wouldn't and a all kinds of great stuff. But when they open their mouths they sound exactly like the ones we are allowed to make fun of here. The fake scotsmen if you will. The seemingly online only anarchists. I've heard them use tankie as a pejorative before seeing it online and are extremely hostile to Marxist lenninists who are open about it and bring suggestions in line with such thought in conversation or meetings. Pointing out that building insulated sheds for the homeless is great but the city will crack down on them as soon as the first tourist season comes that the government decides covid is over for and also shouldn't we be using the fact that regular community groups have had to get together to shelter the homeless as a means of shaming the current government? It might make thr current government do something more instead of pretending to build dual power by doing the government's job for them until it was convenient to tear them down? (Exactly that happened)
I would say, let them do their work and you do yours. Diversity of tactics type thing. They want to get out and help individuals right now. Of course, you aren't wrong about your other points, but use your own org to address those.
I have played ttrpgs with people across the (cool) political spectrum - all the way from hardcore toothbrush stealing tankies to filthy anarchists: I don't understand how ancient beef that nobody at the table has been involved in is enough to make a fucking D&D game dissolve. Never seen something like this, though I have had to kick out creepy chuds for outing themselves saying some heinous shit.I mean it's the D&D, the game where you basically go into dungeons, roll dice, and kill monsters, even the rules don't encourage much of actual role-playing.
Oh btw check out the "Comrades" game, it's anarchist one, even have some masked antitankie mechanics complete with babybrain history takes, because why not lol.
I once had a friend who wouldn't volunteer at a soup kitchen because it was run by trots.
the anarchist that repudiates the ml probably wants to see 100 million chinese people dead in name of defeating authoritarianism so its probably good they left
Wait until you get a load of Marxist anarchists
Do you have any reading or resources regarding this tendency? I have never heard someone describe themselves that way and in my mind that ideology would entail major contradictions but I'd love to learn more
CNT FAI had many, the org was even rejected by other anarchists for being too Marxist and they had good relations with commie orgs until they didn't. Italy had famous ones as well, such as Carlo Cafiero.
Many modern anarchists (usually not "online anarchists" who are liberals that like the anarchist aesthetic but just want to hate commies and get angry about grievances from 1913 etc) are like this, they read and accept enough of Marx to be Marxist while deviating from MLs, Trots, etc. Some of them call themselves libertarian Marxists or left comms, but there is diversity in those labels. The old school libertaruan Marxists and leftcoms would generally not call themselves anarchists. But many modern ones do.
There are also anarchists that are Marx-ish, usually where they accept the critique of capitalism and proletarian revolutionary potential but reject anything remotely related to their conception if a state or party. Like Wayne Price (who I think is generally wrong in his criticisms btw) or really most anarchists that read widely.
Bloody revisionists, ultras, trots, tankies, accelerationists ruined Marxism.
Should have been a trot...
Ironic that I would say that, I know.
