All the arguments against joining the army in Ukraine breaks the question: if it is "taboo", then how can anarchists survive and protect human rights from foreign military aggression without having their own means-like anarchist battalions with tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery, with a statute and a tribunal against their own war criminals? Do we need to be ashamed to remain silent about our activity in the conventional forces? Or is someone ready to give money for military equipment for an anarchist army in Ukraine?
None of the people gathered here will have an answer to this question, since no one has the experience of directly threatening their home and their rights at such a level as it happened and is happening in Ukraine. Your friends, who are not even radicals, did not shoot crowds of police and snipers on the streets (I'm talking about the Maidan revolution). Nobody took home, work and civil rights from you, having established in the city the military junta of Russian nationalists (I'm talking about the war in the Donbass).
It turns out that the argument against the participation of an anarchist in the army even in such a period is a purely subcultural, religious, lifestyle issue, rather than rational thinking and readiness for accountability greater than the destruction of the bank's showcase on the May Day rally. In fact, some people in this discussion banally refuse to military anarchists to consider themselves as anarchists, referring to the texts that are not connected with modernity and do not reflect real circumstances. Risorgimento, the second Spanish Republic, the resistance movement in France... They did not exist? Or were they all wrong?
Once again, but honestly: what should a Ukrainian anarchist do if his rights and life itself are under attack by the forces of the neighbour imperialist state?
Ah, here is the crux of the problem - I thought anarchism was an anti-state, anti-capitalist political philosophy. My mistake.
Telling someone over a web forum that enthusiastically joining their states military doesn't accord with anarchist principles is not the same thing as "trying to enforce other people to follow you and worship you as a master". Where are you getting this from?
As you and your Ukrainian comrades have established (and who am i, a humble lacky of British imperialism, to disagree?), people are not allowed to comment on what anarchist movements in other countries are doing, whether it has been succesful, makes any sense, or is even anarchism
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The folks at NIHILIST have joined their states army, as have the neo-nazis of the Azov battalion.