Obviously the top article has come to the correct conclusion, but isn’t this just an instance of two people with different opinions writing articles on the same news site ten years apart?

Sorry, that was kind of a throwaway line. Of course anarchists do good work, and I know the infighting isn’t so bad in “real life.” Even so, I do think anarchism as a movement is driven by a desire to separate itself from AES, and that doing so entails the problems I’ve described. There’s a reason it’s a mostly western phenomenon. These are people who want to think of themselves as radicals, but have internalized too much propaganda to figure out when and how their media and schools lie to them. Consequently, they are pigeonholed into a movement which has effectively served as controlled opposition for American intelligence for the past sixty years or so.

Anyone can do good work. Even Democrats sometimes do good work. But at some point, we need to get on the same page as to what “opposing the bourgeois state” actually means. It means multipolarity. It means opposing NATO expansion. It means maintaining normal relations with China. There are those who drag their feet on these issues, and it’s not a mystery where that reluctance is coming from.

In the absence of any successful anarchist revolutions, no one can criticize their ideas for being wrong. The “trap of falsifiability” is what they avoid by not associating with AES.

Is pornography still exploitative if no money changes hands? I figure if I want to put my ass on the internet for free, there’s nothing wrong with that, right? I’m not sure how that specific kind of pornography relates to capitalism.

And what about drawn pornography? Are we coming after the furries? lol