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There's a pair of half-finished shorts that I've been meaning to do the last few stitches and adjustments on for ~2 years at this point.

Every spring I'm like, "this year I'll get 'em ready in time for summer."

Ayy my cloak is arriving any day now, likely just in time for the autumn chill to begin to set in.

Didn't check the rest of the thread and therefore didn't see 'em cisplaining at my queer comrades.

Seemed in good faith so I responded as such, which is how I try to interact with most folks online.

You're welcome.

I'm a little taken aback that this thread didn't rapidly degrade into the shit flinging that political discussion is doomed to become online.

Was actually goading you for more information lol.

Give me a bit and I'll track down some sources on them. Check back in, like, an hour or so and I'll have a list edited on this comment.

Revolutionary Catalonia

Here's a first-hand account from someone who was a child at the time.

Murray Bookchin on the Spanish revolution.

Write up on the Mujeres Libres, a group of women anarchists.

George Orwell was a snitch who did a lot of work to undermine British anarchists, but he did witness the Spanish civil war first-hand here's a link to what he wrote about his experiences

The Spanish Communist party's take on the Spanish Civil war because this list was looking a little one sided (this one is a downloadable PDF not a webpage).

Gonna a take a while longer for more on Makhnovshchina. So I'll edit again when I've found sources.

Makhnovshchina

Only found a couple this time.

Here's a defence of the Makhnovists, chapter 5 discusses the anti-Semitism claims (though imho not very well).

And some Trotsky criticising them for balance (bit of a biased source since he oversaw the Bolsheviks' purging Makhnovists).

Revolutionary Catalonia provides a good example of an anarchist project where large scale industrial infrastructure was maintained and could help form the blueprint for decentralised industry. Much ink has been spilled pointing fingers about who was to blame for the sectarian infighting that ultimately led to its collapse, I think a more important question would be "how do we stop something like that happening next time?" A question that I have no clue how to answer.

Anarchist Ukraine - correct me if I'm wrong, but this is about the Mahknovists right? Despite being largely agrarian, they were able to rebuild destroyed infrastructure an astounding rate in the face of multiple invasions and an ongoing civil war. There are rumours of antisemitism within Mahknovshchina but a lot of them come from USSR aligned sources and are hotly debated by different anarchist groups, I don't know enough about Ukrainian history to know if the accusations are true.

The Zapatistas are not anarchists and have never claimed to be. While they do have some similarities to historical anarchist projects it would do them a disservice to lump them into an ideology with which they don't identify.

I've got nothing against any of them, I just wanted to mention one that's a bit less well known.

If capitalism is the natural way for civilisation to organise itself, how come it took until the 1700s to become a widespread ideology? Humans have been around for a hell of a lot longer than that.

Kelly does satire of political cartoons for The Onion.

Link to all them here

Pëtr Kropotkin wrote a lot about possible organisation of anarchist society after the revolution, at this point it's a meme to recommend reading "the bread book" The Conquest of Bread and I don't personally recommend starting with it and instead beginning with a pamphlet like Anarchism and Revolution.

The ZAD de Notres-Dame-des-Landes, is a good example of a long running commune that has managed to withstand assault from an external state. But the kinds of large scale anarchism that will do away with the state in its entirety has not yet been attempted.

Communism always needs to be enforced, it doesn't happen naturally. Capitalism does. That's why I don't think communism can exist along with anarchy.

Capitalism also has to be enforced.

What do you think all those counter revolutionary insurgencies like the bay of pigs invasion are?

Or the state crackdowns on communist groups like the red scare?

Capitalism is not a natural state that things can revert to, it is a system that needs to be imposed.

You're right, I don't have much knowledge of anarchism's philosophical framework, but I do know that the definition of the word means that there is no authority.

Anarchism is the absence of involuntary hierarchies such as the state. Authority and authoritarianism is meaningless in drawing a dividing line between ideologies because every socioeconomic framework needs to defend itself from being undermined one way or another. A good place to get started on this matter would be On Authority by Friedrich Engels.

If you actually care about digging deeper into anarchocommunism as an ideology, I'd recommend starting with mutual aid, a factor in evolution and Communism and Anarchy (both written by Pëtr Kropotkin).

If an anarchist revolution is successful, the dissolution of the state is inevitable.

If a socialist revolution is successful then the eventual dissolution of the state will likely occur in a framework such as Engels' "withering away of the state".

Since capitalism cannot sustain itself indefinitely, it is likely that one of these two revolutions will occur (or there will be a backslide into fascism).