I've covered how the "non-aggression principle" is ultimately circular. Moves like this though help them to cover up that fact, making it seem like they are dealing with fundamental, objective, value-free categories.

I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Yes, precisely. For me, a vanguard are those who are furthest along by which the main force follows because of the way the vanguard clears. This can be the CNT-FAI, Solidarność, the students of May 1968, the Bolsheviks, etc.

This probably vibes with what you're saying, but who is or isn't the vanguard usually depends on taking decisive action at the correct moment. As such anarchists frequently act as vanguards.

I've always felt like both Leninists and anarchists approach vanguardism in the wrong way. For Leninists it's a problem of assuming oneself is the vanguard b/c of theory, for anarchists it's a problem of denying there even are vanguards.

Besides, a military analogy has long limited the conceptualization of what class struggle is. Yes we talk of class “war” but this is not a war between “fronts” but of social relations.

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