Sidagma

that's understandable; i imagine it gets tiresome.

haven't seen you around recently, hope you're well.

I don't really think you're a Maoist. I wouldn't really care if you were. There's worse things in the world.

You're thanking a load of Ismail's posts. Are you a closet ML?

Oh hey, sorry for not getting back to you. To be honest responding to Maoism threads is such a hassle because well, you know how people are on this site. I'll try to respond to that thread tommorow. But if you have any questions ask me

Sorry for the late response.
Oh, okay, I assumed you did because you are a member of the ex-anarchists group.
Why do you think that communes run by the people won't be able to root out such problems? And right-wing extremists will most probably have been shot during the revolution (I hope, otherwise we would be doing something wrong).

Yes, anarchism is (currently) primarily a youth movement, but that does not have to mean that anarchy can not be sustained in a society. One only has to look to the anarchist territories in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, or the Free Territories in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, to see anarchism is very well possible.

don't take it personally, i get the feeling some of these guys have been waiting years for someone vaguely affiliated with anti-oppression movements to show up so that they can rail against their strawman of post-modernism and show how hardcore materialist they are.

i'm curious about maoism as well; the user yet_another_boring_marxist seems well informed, if she doesnt mind me sending you her way. a talk i found informative is here: http://wearemany.org/a/2012/06/rise-and-fall-of-maoism
but it is obviously not a pro-maoist perspective.

May I ask what made you abandon anarchism so quickly after you joined revleft?

Kudos to you on combating anti-islam thing too.

It's kin of terrifying how some people can generalise millions based on sects of monsters. Some people here sound like they just got out of a session with Richard Hitchens.

also according to crixus you and i have fused into some kind of monstrous two-headed harpy and can no longer be distinguished from one another, despite our wildly divergent stances on patriarchy and what he calls 'privilege theory'. were you aware of this? i don't think i'm ready for this level of commitment, sidagma, we've only just met!