Beat_da_Rich

I suspect they're run by feds

Fascism requires an enemy.

I'll bite. What do you not like about existing socialist states?

Omg an actual "human nature" argument in the wild.

Not to mention, so many of these public internet disagreements are likely involving bots.

Honestly this just makes it funnier.

They were allowed to write anything and they wrote "I can't read this shit."

I feel ya. It's maddening. But I think after anarchists are confronted with reality it'll convert a lot of them. It'll take some ugly lessons though.

There are plenty of anarchists doing good on-the-ground work. And there are plenty of communists who are terminally online. As much as we make fun and get frustrated with anarchist analysis and their lack of historical knowledge, I don't think we can characterize either movement as a whole of spending the majority of their time dunking in comment sections. In my own experience with anarchists and other left tendencies there is not nearly as much infighting as you would be led to believe online. Plenty of people are doing the work and have their eye on the larger contradiction, which is opposing the bourgeois state.

The anticapitalist movement is still reemerging in the West after decades of McCarthyism and it's going to take time for people to become more learned about socialist history and ideology. Communism is getting more popular, albeit slowly. I personally think that the popularity of anarchism in the West is a phase that is temporary. Experience will lead people to Marxism.

Fair observations. What does "anti-war" mean if there's no potential to actually affect policy?

That being said, even though he is an anticommunist, calling Russia a "colonizing" force, etc. He still is on record saying that NATO provoked Russia and has openly called for an end to NATO. There is value in seizing that criticism back from the right wing who has co-opted it and confronting Democrats from the left. How much potential though, we'll see. I agree that the Bernie phenomenon was a perfect storm and that there are different circumstances now. Like you said, it's easier for them to deplatform West whereas with Bernie the Democrats still had to make things appear "fair."

Overall I'm suspicious of West, as we all should be.

Oh I agree. Cornel v. Bernie I'm viewing on the same level of Trump v. DeSantis. Ultimately another flavor of liberal infighting.

The biggest positive effect Cornel West can have by running is by continuing to weaken the ideological grip Democrats have over workers and other progressive-minded Americans. Plenty of us before studying Marxism started as Bernie supporters, so in that way his run does have the same potential to serve as a gateway to leftist politics.

He may also not agree with China's politics but he's anti-war and critical of NATO. Of any candidate in the mainstream public arena he's obviously the most desirable for the Global South.

Liberals always use the "Economics 101" jab when it's clear that's all the knowledge they have lol.

Say what we will about West. But it's still gonna be fun to watch him confront these people with their own bullshit.