I know its tankiejerk so they were never gonna be a comrade but this is like the opposite of the type of squishy leftists or western anarchists that I hold out hope for.

Instead of mostly having good instincts and being willing to work with whoever else is putting in the work even if they don’t necessarily have a nuanced take on stalin or trust in state structures, these people create their politics entirely in reaction to a boogeyman and don’t put in any work