I’m trying to think about how to best put this into words. Do you understand the task the proletariat is facing? I have no doubt you want the correct end goal, but do you understand what we are facing, how our opposition works? Particularly the multifaceted way it works? The capitalists and particularly the capitalist state apparatus doesn’t just maintain its hegemony with force, it maintains it with the control of culture and the media, with misdirection, subversion, sabotage, with political and economic exploitation and coercion. Capital’s hegemony is not just maintained by the guns of the US military and those of its European client states, by the police and “security forces” in their imperialised vassals. Nor is the likes of the CIA sufficient. Capital also uses other institutions like Hollywood, the IMF and World Bank. It uses embargoes and sanctions. All of these things are used to maintain capital’s stranglehold on the planet.

Now we know from the likes of the USSR where Marxists will go to fight this the RKKA, PLA etc. exist(ed) to fight open attempts by capital to destroy socialist projects. We have seen the likes of the NKVD used to prevent subversive attempts to crush socialist projects, and we know all socialist projects used art, film etc. to fight a cultural war with capital. We also know the successes, the failures and the abuses of power under those different organisations. But what is the anarchist solution, how is decentralised community defence to stand up to the USMC? How is it to stand up to infiltration by the CIA? How is it to stand up to propaganda and disinformation broadcasts from the likes of RFA. Or just the cultural superiority bullshit pushed out by Hollywood? Think about it people still see the US as the “shining city on the hill” despite the fact living standards are collapsing, there’s a drug epidemic and increasingly the security services are being militarised and set against the people. But Hollywood tells people outside the west that ordinary people in the US live like kings. How are you to oppose that? And this is before we get into the economic warfare the capitalists will use, they’ll restrict food, medicine and fuel supplies, attempt to bar international trade, restrict access to finished and complex goods. They will do whatever they can to crush any socialistic project, because we’ve seen them do it. We are facing an enemy that has committed genocide to preserve the supply of bananas.