The state of Reddit Anarchists

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This type of "anarchism" is just an aesthetic expression of liberalism.
- Most online sectarianism is. Consumer identities as applied to revolutionary theory. We are very close to capitalists figuring out how to recuperate revolutionary sentiment right up to the point of action. They’ve already effectively monetized and weaponized right wing terrorism, so non-terrorism on our part is certainly on the table.
I tried to explain third worldist thought to a Redditor over there once and they called it "reactionary".
It's beyond parody
Just admit that you have a nice job in the imperial core and aren't prepared to go though the rationale of why that is, and what global equity would mean.
Okay holy shit this person admits to being hired by the military industrial complex in their country. Imperial core "leftists":
Every. Single. Fucking. Time
- This the post you're talking about?
  Work made me suicidal
  I'm a trans woman working in cybersec for a big actor of the military industrial complex.
  It's my first job. I was desperate for a job. I couldn't go back to university because of the rampant transphobia, and I couldn't do sex work anymore because of my deteriorating mental health.
  I was lured in with open source and medical projects. Then I was sent to work for those missile selling tucks. I was promised a new assignment, again and again.
  7 months in and I want to kill myself.
  My life was good. I finally got the body I wanted. I'm in a loving relationship. I got fun hobbies and caring friends. But 7 months of this shit just ruined it all.
  Benzos and antidepressants didn't work. Therapy didn't work. Sick leaves didn't work. I don't know what will. I'm so ready to give up on it all.
  haven't worked in a week. I'm on sick leave for depression. I'm going to run out of money. I have loans to pay back and rent to pay. I can't afford to live. I literally cannot afford life.
  How do you survive this shit.
  Or this one?
  
  Have a little empathy.
- Hi. I’m effervescent and I would likely have my ~~quality of life~~ access to luxury goods reduced under global communism. Worth. Very worth.
  Doubly so considering global warming is about to fuck up this whole “fresh bananas in February” horse shit. Also, leave it to sectarian redditors to ruin something as cool as theory earnings.
  
  Living in a yurt would be a quality of life improvement if that yurt didn't have a landlord.
- I tried to explain third worldist thought to a Redditor over there once and they called it “reactionary”.
  Reactionaries come from outside the Imperial Core, and the farther outside the Core you live, the more Reactionary you become.
  Just admit that you have a nice job in the imperial core and aren’t prepared to go though the rationale of why that is, and what global equity would mean.
  What's been so incredibly about the last 40 years is that we've seen Maoism play out on a global stage. The region of China transforms from a fractured patchwork of colonies into a single industrialized super-state. And what is the result? Extraordinarily cheap consumer goods, a surge in global GDP, staggering leaps in technological progress, and a global tide of human development that has lifted virtually every single ship touching the Pacific Rim.
  Global Equity means Global Prosperity. We are far better off living in a world in which every nation enjoys the benefits provided within an imperial nation. Not only does it fail to cost us anything but our pride, it yields enormous dividends inside a single generation.
  The real price of global equity is imperial hegemony. No single world-spanning currency printed out of the US Mint. English no longer being the lingua franca on a World Stage. American CEOs no longer operating impudently as both global taskmasters and cultural evangelicals. No more imprinting Americanism upon the world as a condition for accessing networks of international trade and travel.
  That's all we're giving up. And the vast majority of us never see the benefits this hegemony provides.
  
  If global wealth were equally divided, the median American would be nearly twice as wealthy as they are now. That mostly shows just how bad wealth inequality is in the US itself. The only countries that would actually be worse off are Klanada and a few countries in E*rope.

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