• Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, the meme is accurate. After the right has been defeated the anarchists and authoritarians will turn on each other, both sides understand this. The blacks didn’t defeat the reds because of lack of will or a naive commitment to left unity, they lost because they lacked the discipline and organizational capacity to win a civil war.

    • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      they lacked the discipline and organizational capacity

      Really? Seems to me that Bolsheviks only got any kind of “discipline” after they defected to the Makhnovists…