I have noticed that largely most anarchists online are from the first world and that anarchism is very popular than communism in western countries, i.e. its become overtly a first world white people ideology.

While marxism leninism is popular in the third world, with large marxist leninist parties and non existing anarchist forces. What do you think about this?

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[–] 10 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Most anarchists are not online, or at least not active online. There's an inherent defiance in anarchist circles against imperial / extractive technologies like computers, which is less common in leninist circles where cybernetics has been assimilated (eg. under Allende, or in science fiction like Asimov). To be fair, i have met quite a few leninists who were profoundly techno-critical and did not wander on online forums.

So there's already this biased sample explaining things a little. But "non existing anarchist forces" in the 3rd world is a stretch due to your information bubbles. Can't say they're exactly thriving and on the verge of destroying the State, but there's strong anarchist communities in Sudan, Chile, Syria, Chiapas, Indonesia…

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As QinShiHuangsSchlong pointed out, the Zapatistas explicitly reject anarchist labeling. You can point to them for their horizontalism (at the same time, they have hierarchy and centralization), but they are primarily an indigenous led movement with their own, original ideology. They see labeling them as "anarchists" as the imposition of western framing on their distinctly indigenous movement.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I explicitly did not name the zapatistas. But you are correct there are different aspects to their movement, with the peasant communities being more horizontal, and the EZLN being more hierarchical.

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