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2026-07-23 16:36 UTC

Even if you support ending statehood, surely you can see the utility of worker-states like Cuba in protecting their people against the US Empire, no? I do think that the Cuban government is doing good work to oppose US imperialism and even keep their local proletariat afloat (if there was ever a counterexample for my thesis that states are bad, it would be Cuba IMO), but despite its statehood, not because of it. Like just because an organization does some good things does not mean that I have no critiques about the various hierarchies and modes of domination that organization simultaneously imposes upon its people. Like my support for Cuba is critical support for exactly this reason.

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-07-23 16:39

I guess my question, more directly, is how you think a more loosely and decentrally organized force could stand up to such outside pressure. Historically, such organizations tend to either die off against more vertically organized groups, or adapt some degree of verticality, which happened in Spain, Makhnovschina, even the Zapatistas (which claim neither Marxism nor anarchism, to be clear). Even if your end goal was full horizontalism, do you believe that to be achievable now, against imperialism?

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