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Why do anarchists seem to be more prone to action than some other leftist groups/Why do anarchists get most of the press these days? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Title. Is it because looser adventurism gets more headlines? is it an image thing? Dunno how to articulate reliably what I'm thinking, just seems like all I hear about are "anarchists squat building", or about food not bombs (admirable work so I hear), or is it just down to difficulty in organising in other groups?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The sad fact for Marxists in the west is that the Anarchists are more organized and do more praxis these days.
I find it very annoying when my fellow comrades respond to the actions taken by Anarchists or non-Marxists by simply belittling them.
"occupy did nothing. chaz was doomed from the start. etc."

If we think we are supposed to be the vanguard, the most proactive guardians and forward pushers of the working class's power, we need to start doing shit. Because right now we're a laughing stock of sit-around bookreaders arguing theology.

Our main attack against all other forms of socialism are that they've never won and secured a worker state. Well right now the Marxists in the west haven't even started.

Marxists who do nothing but post will come up with some horrible names to call me which are just new fancier versions of "heretic" but as it stands, (on average) even the least read anarchist in Food Not Bombs has done more to advance worker power than the most well read "Marxist" in a typical org.

The clearest example I can think of:
It was ~~New York City~~ Anarchists working as part of the Direct Action Network who secured the massive abolition of Third World debt owed to the IMF. And it is not exaggeration to say they also almost suceeded in abolishing the IMF entirely. Despite the most vocal opposition to the IMF coming from us Marxists, it seems right now we are all talk. We must improve.

EDIT: I misremembered: DAN was most active in NYC but the anti-IMF successes were across the US not just NYC.