I have noticed that largely most anarchists online are from the first world and that anarchism is very popular than communism in western countries, i.e. its become overtly a first world white people ideology.

While marxism leninism is popular in the third world, with large marxist leninist parties and non existing anarchist forces. What do you think about this?

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Most anarchists are not online, or at least not active online. There’s an inherent defiance in anarchist circles against imperial / extractive technologies like computers, which is less common in leninist circles where cybernetics has been assimilated (eg. under Allende, or in science fiction like Asimov). To be fair, i have met quite a few leninists who were profoundly techno-critical and did not wander on online forums.

    So there’s already this biased sample explaining things a little. But “non existing anarchist forces” in the 3rd world is a stretch due to your information bubbles. Can’t say they’re exactly thriving and on the verge of destroying the State, but there’s strong anarchist communities in Sudan, Chile, Syria, Chiapas, Indonesia…