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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is certainly not without historical precedent. Anarchists were quite heavily involved with the Russian revolution for example, although many historical-revisionist marxist-leninists would prefer to downplay that.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MLs don't downplay the participation of Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, at least not from what I have seen.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I appreciate that you don't, I even have you tagged as "a polite marxist" so I must have had a positive interaction with you before, but many MLs I've debated before have downplayed anarchist contributions to the Russian revolution. I can understand how you might not encounter that very often since you're not putting yourself out there as an anarchist.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

That's a fair point.

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Historically it has never worked out very well for the anarchists, so I would hope that they have learned their lesson by now

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Point taken, but although it may not have ended well for the anarchists I believe their involvement in the Russian revolution was for the better since it could easily have gone in a much worse direction without them. Anarchists are always putting themselves in harm's way to make this world a better place.