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Are anarchists really allowed to exist moreso than MLs? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I'm curious about the validity of the claim that anarchism is an acceptable form of anti-status quo politics in the US because they're not actually a threat.

Is this true? Have anarchist groups not been infiltrated as often as MLs have? Is it easier to take them down?

I only ask because I feel like any form of left wing/anti-capitalist thought would be heavily suppressed here but I don't know

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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes absolutely, this has been well-documented, and pushing anarchism and various other anti-soviet trends was an explicit COINTELPRO tactic. From an FBI memo:

Norton - How the FBI used Anarchism to attack the left.

Another good article about how the CIA actively pushed ultraleft, eurocommunist, and various other anti-soviet academic trends in leftist theory:

Gabriel Rockhill - The CIA reads french theory.

Also another good article, focused on women's liberation movement organizing:

The tyranny of structurelessness - The failure of anarchist-style organizing in the womens-liberation movement.