Anarchists when they see people celebrating Victory Day and thanking the Soviets.

Sorry for the wait, genosse, I was at work when I saw your comment and this is gonna be wordy, cuz I'm actually glad to have a chance to explain. Here's a copy/paste from when I was last asked, then I'll add on, I'm gonna use you as a way to sort my own thoughts on the matter:

The scale and depth of what we're looking at, basically. We're past the point of no return with climate change, for instance. The great pacific garbage patch alone, is a problem. We have actual islands starting to get swallowed up by the sea, desertification run rampant, nuclear proliferation, there's a rising fascist tide in the midst of the failiure of neo-liberal economics, etc etc. This cannot be handled by loosely affiliated syndicates, I'm sorry, but it's true. To handle all of these things, there's going to have to be some sort of central planning. We're talking massive human migration and huge changes to how we do things; you're not just going to wing it with a bunch of unions of workers that are doing whatever, you're just not. Anarchism could've worked, but the time that it could've is just gone now and things have changed. Don't get me twisted, I love Bread Santa and I wish like hell Bookchin, Parsons, Emma and the like could see the influence their ideas and actions had over the world, but the future of humanity, if there's to be one at all, will be led by Lenin.

That being said, I'd say to move away from being scared of Lenin. In my pocket is a slim, light computer that I can use to literally talk, face to face, to someone on the other side of the fucking planet. That alone changes the face of the game. In my mind, we can absolutely dwarf the successes of the Soviet Union and avoid their failures and in doing so, have the revolution to begin all revolutions.

And there's plenty more reason. Satellite arrays have to be coordinated between countries, which are sometimes even hostile to one another. There's the goal of moving away from cars and to public transport. You can't just wing that one.

You know Bar Rescue? TV show where Jon Taffer yells at small business tyrants for 45 minutes before saving them from their own dumbass decisions (it's such a guilty pleasure of mine)? Well, after he renovates the bar, he gives them tools, one of which is Partender. It's an app you can have on a tablet, that can take inventory of your stock through the camera in minutes. That's amazing. Imagine that with a communal store. You could take inventory, have that data sent to a central system and manage things, from a central org throughout the entire country. And what about political power? A mayor literally has the ability to control the police. That means when these fascists try to hold a rally, they could literally say "hold the line and don't let things get out of hand or you and yours are gone" or even tell them to stand down (while tacitly letting antifa do its thing). What if these mayorships, governerships and local council members are all, say, the PSL? State power, is, well, powerful.

Basically, we're talking humanity wide coordination. We're not just going to wing this, there's going to have to be some sort of central planning.

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