Comradeship // Freechat

Anti-sectarianism is the general rule. The community is predominantly Marxist, but has its share of Anarchists. There is no official list of points of unity, but anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-gender/sexuality discrimination are basically non-negotiable.

I can only speak for myself, but my sentiment is that the left in the imperial core is so disorganized that the majority of sectarian disagreements are purely hypothetical and stupid to get worked up over. We can have discussions about theory and tactics, but there is no reason to assemble the perfect party platform and get into bitter fights about its nuances when there is no party to speak of. You can't build the mass line without the mass.

Of course, this doesn't apply to the type of historically illiterate, American-exceptionalist Reddit "Anarchists," or any of that PatSoc MAGA Communism bullshit. People stanning the Shining Path will probably get a lot of weird looks. We give the handful of Trots their fair share of noogies, but we don't exclude them.

It is a relatively small community. If you are comment in good faith and demonstrate you aren't full of imperialist brainworms you will probably be fine. If you pick out individual people with the dumbest takes and graft that onto broad movements, putting words in peoples' mouths, you might run into trouble. We love dunking on people with bad takes, but if you take a particular Bellingcat dropout's cringepost and act like they are the designated spokesperson of Anarchism, that's the kind of thing that doesn't fly. Basically, don't be disingenuous.

We're not the type of community that will ban somebody for mentioning in passing that they participate in mutual aid on the basis that mutual aid is charity and therefor not praxis. That kind of hair-splitting dogmatism can stay on Reddit as far as we're concerned.

Stuff like their intense struggle sessions are what drove me away. Idk if they have changed it now but when I was over there a lot they had no vetting and no way to IP ban so any trolls could just spam accounts. There's a lot of users that come off as so over the top that I can only assume they are trying to make certain communities look bad. You have to be wary of any community that's and easy target for controversy. And if you go in and try to have a reasonable argument or criticism of any kind you get immediately attacked. I still go there. They have a great news source and good info, but there are definitely bad faith actors.

I foresee struggle sessions in our future.

Those will be a thing to watch. Hexbear is notorious for their struggle sessions.

I haven't really seen any of that but then again I've only been on that site for a few weeks, they do seem significantly meaner than here