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Try not to be too offended, comrades. Don't take the bait. I know some of you have had legitimately bad experiences with some anarchists, and please trust that some anarchists have had legitimately bad experiences with some communists. As someone who kind of straddles both communities, I still think we can all learn from each other and we should look for more opportunities to appreciate what each side is good at doing.
I'll be honest, this is an issue I kind of predicted with the "anti-sectarianism" rule. Yes some people are sectarian for sectarianism's sake but that's not always the case. It's easier to be non-sectarian when there's nothing really important to be sectarian over. That that there's MAYBE a faint chance of an actual left movement getting off the ground we run into the problem that there are actual disagreements over important stuff. If one sect wants to do A and another sect wants to do B and A and B are incompatible, there's going to be strong disagreements. We sadly can't always just get along.
Portland May Day saw MLs, Maoists, Anti-revisionists, and even DSA Socdems organizing and marching together under one big red tent. That's some good antisectarianism.
Popular fronts are great when they can happen, my point is it's not like sectarianism is always over petty shit. Sometimes disagreements are actually meaningful. The Bolsheviks had actual reasons for breaking with the mensheviks.