You know Trotskyists and MLs are completely different right? 300k is almost 10x the number cited in Averich’s history. At this point you aren’t even trusting other anarchists.
I think you’re being sectarian, because you are misrepresenting facts to fit a one-sided narrative. None of this changes the fact that your meme is extremely confusing. Using a term (Blacks) no one but your own sect uses that way, which conflicts with most people’s understanding, is one sure sign of sectarianism.
Defend your meme all you want but you’re actually carrying water for Stalinist MLs, despite what you may think. A disconnect between one’s political imperative and what is actually happening is it’s own kind of authoritarianism. You’re depending on people accepting your authority, negating the authority of fact. The idea that Russia could muster 300k troops in (what appeared to the Bolsheviks to be) the middle of a civil war, is Victims of Communism levels of historical revisionism. But I’d also compare your sources to my own, sources if you would care to provide them.
Go ahead and make me out to be your enemy because of what Trotsky did over a hundred years ago. This bears no relevance to our present day struggles, yet another sign of toxic sectarianism. Another sign is that you would accept me if I identified as an anarchist, but instead you frame me as an enemy for identifying as a trotskyist, even though we fundamentally agree that Kronstadt was unforgivable. So the surest sign of our political difference is that I care more about learning and teaching the unvarnished truth, whereas you’re invested in campism. It seems like you’re saying facts don’t matter, only ideology matters, which is authoritarian and sectarian. The anarchists I work with never had a problem with my beliefs. They trust me and I trust them. Ideological puritanism is a bigger threat than Trotskyism. So you might want to take a look at that.
Makhno and his generals were tyrants. Perhaps no worse than the Bolsheviks during the civil war, but certainly no better. War forces the point, and idealism gives way to necessity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurgent_Army_of_Ukraine
tl;dr: Reds officially allied with the Blacks, Trotsky came by later with 300,000 troops to betray them.
Never trust a ML.
You know Trotskyists and MLs are completely different right? 300k is almost 10x the number cited in Averich’s history. At this point you aren’t even trusting other anarchists.
I think you’re being sectarian, because you are misrepresenting facts to fit a one-sided narrative. None of this changes the fact that your meme is extremely confusing. Using a term (Blacks) no one but your own sect uses that way, which conflicts with most people’s understanding, is one sure sign of sectarianism.
Defend your meme all you want but you’re actually carrying water for Stalinist MLs, despite what you may think. A disconnect between one’s political imperative and what is actually happening is it’s own kind of authoritarianism. You’re depending on people accepting your authority, negating the authority of fact. The idea that Russia could muster 300k troops in (what appeared to the Bolsheviks to be) the middle of a civil war, is Victims of Communism levels of historical revisionism. But I’d also compare your sources to my own, sources if you would care to provide them.
Go ahead and make me out to be your enemy because of what Trotsky did over a hundred years ago. This bears no relevance to our present day struggles, yet another sign of toxic sectarianism. Another sign is that you would accept me if I identified as an anarchist, but instead you frame me as an enemy for identifying as a trotskyist, even though we fundamentally agree that Kronstadt was unforgivable. So the surest sign of our political difference is that I care more about learning and teaching the unvarnished truth, whereas you’re invested in campism. It seems like you’re saying facts don’t matter, only ideology matters, which is authoritarian and sectarian. The anarchists I work with never had a problem with my beliefs. They trust me and I trust them. Ideological puritanism is a bigger threat than Trotskyism. So you might want to take a look at that.
Oh mb you are talking about Ukraine.
https://marxistleftreview.org/articles/nestor-makhno-the-failure-of-anarchism/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
Makhno and his generals were tyrants. Perhaps no worse than the Bolsheviks during the civil war, but certainly no better. War forces the point, and idealism gives way to necessity.