I’m curious about the validity of the claim that anarchism is an acceptable form of anti-status quo politics in the US because they’re not actually a threat.
Is this true? Have anarchist groups not been infiltrated as often as MLs have? Is it easier to take them down?
I only ask because I feel like any form of left wing/anti-capitalist thought would be heavily suppressed here but I don’t know
I wouldn’t necessarily say that I became an anarchist specifically because it ran less of a risk of alienating friends and family, but more due to the low barrier of entry for anarchism. That is, when I could clearly see that capitalism was ruining my life and destroying the planet, but I hadn’t unlearned all the, like, “Stalin bad Mao bad communism is when no food lol” stuff that I’d grown up with – anarchism seemed like a natural alternative path to communism.
Thanks, I forgot to mention one of the most obvious and major reasons why people become anarchists (in the west at least). It’s an easy way to recognise the problems with capitalism while still holding a lot of capitalist’s ideas about socialist countries.