Breadtube, DSA, Bernie Sander, AOC. All of there far from proper socialism, but they do a lot of good work radicalizing liberals. I first learned of Mao and Lenin not being the devil at DSA from some of the tankier members. Even if Breadtubers are Libs, surely they are less unsufferable then if they had remained Hillary Clinton fans or whatever.

I totally agree. I really wanted to be an anarchist, since I like punk rock and the asthetic and the idea of federalized communes with no central authority and no hierachy. It was a long and dissapointing journey learning exactly how unrealistic anarchism is and how little historical relevency, or how it is basically only believed in the west in well to do countries. I swallowed the propaganda about China and the USSR under Stalin because other Anarchists believed it. I thought that MLs were the ones only in it for asthetics, I thought MLs were pretentious for using words like “scietific” to describe socialism. I eventually learned that Marxism, socialism are just the natural conclusions one comes to when using dielectial and historical materialism. I hear many Comrades talk about the Western leftists obsession with being an underdog because they have been losing for so long, if we assume that than it seems obvious why anarchism is so appealing to many. I maintain that as the material conditions change in America and the rest of the imperial core and possibility of revolution becomes more possible, Anarchists will see who are the disciplined ones making real progress and change thier tune much like you said.

I’m a at-large chair of my local DSA chapter, so no. lol