One of the biggest fault lines I see between anarchists and pro-state socialists when it comes to international solidarity is that anarchists approach every instance of popular struggle as an opportunity for *action* and to *grow* the relationships, analysis, and values ...

reflective of the world we are actually trying to build, that every instance of struggle is an opportunity to move closer toward social revolution. Whereas pro-state socialists tend to immediately see popular uprisings as a threat to the status-quo of the limited “power” ...

that socialist states have managed to achieve over past several decades.

IMO both of these things are true...

On the one hand, we must always support struggles for self-determination and decolonization but to do so with our principles in check and recognize the ways western imperialism and global capital uses our struggles to their own advantage and maintain hegemony ...

On the other, we have to be real about the long history of US+Euro imperial violence and domination toward third-world movements, many of which took the form of national liberation struggles that have led to limited material wins and at the same time ...

be rigorous in our analysis of global capitalism, of state-violence, of domination and control, and of power...

Oof. Might delete this thread later but this has been on my mind a lot lately, as uprisings and conflicts continue within and beyond the borders of empire, as US military budget increases, rises in white-supremacist violence, cops murdering our community members... the stakes...