I’m running around in leftist circles a lot since beginning of last year. I first got introduced to socialism through anarchism [stereotype alert] started to read and went pretty straight to communist and then ML pretty recently. The shoe is still new but it fits very well so far.
Whenever I bring up socialism and communism (let alone ML), I get a lot of flak from other leftists and especially from anarchists. Yet, I feel like a couple anarchist agitators sound like MLs just cosplaying. It would make sense as anarc kids are totally open for socialist ideas if one lets out the “science” part which irritates me a lot.
Does anyone have similar experience or is able to explain?
Btw pls let me know if this is inappropriate to ask. I dont mean to offend anyone.
No I don’t think that is happening.
What is more likely is that they are anarchists who just have a couple good takes about specific things. Most anarchists have their own boutique version they follow and there isn’t as many set “lines” as there are with MLs. So there are a lot of anarchists who haven’t moved passed anarchism because they are overloaded with anti-communist programming, but still come to some correct conclusions that align with ML