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[โ€“] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anarchists are the first victims of authoritarian regimes. The dictator goes for them first, even before their sworn enemies, e.g. fascists or, if it's a fascist dictatorship, communists.

[โ€“] Volodymyr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The story of ukrainian anarchist communist, Machno, is interesting in this resect. Bolsheviks treated his so well. Russian revolution, although started occasionally with good ideas, quickly revealed itself as authorithian russian nationist imperialism.