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my irritation at neo-Platformist sub-Leninist bullshit does not come from a "red menace" perspective. on a practical level i am convinced that Leninism is a spent historical force, but that doesn't mean its influence isn't still pernicious. anarchists have had plenty of reasons for opposing Leninism that have, let's see... 0% in common with bourgeois paranoia. principled anarchist rejection of and opposition to Leninism (and various other forms of Marxism) derives from both theoretical and practical experience. you know, that goofy thing called history. strategically, Leninism, as a form of social democracy, is based on the takeover of the state apparatus. that means that their organizational form, even prior to that takeover, was centralizing and hierarchical. that meant they were now the new police force. naturally enough they soon came into conflict with anarchists and other non-aligned revolutionaries, and their reaction was violent subjugation -- just like all cops. they were able to defeat all internal opposition to their consolidation of state power, which culminated in the dissolution of the Makhnovshchina and the bloody repression of the Kronstadt Commune. the lesson that Makhno and Arshinov took away from their defeat was to out-bolshevize the Bolsheviks, by creating an explicitly militarized organization with a centralized command hierarchy. when NEFAC started, they latched onto the ridiculous idea of Theoretical and Tactical Unity (tm), which had been condemned by most anarchists in 1926 when Makhno et al published their call for a (thankfully failed) General Union of Anarchists, and which remains an absurd, oxymoronic, and self-defeating organizational strategy for anti-authoritarians. again, this condemnation of neo-Platformists has nothing to do with bourgeois objections to any and all manifestations of "communism."
of course anarchists of whatever stripe are free to organize or collaborate with anyone they prefer. but if their preference is to form alliances with Leninists, nationalists, or other authoritarian types -- all of whom, throughout history, have been happy enough to use anarchist energy to further their own idiotic agendas and who then easily enough dispense with troublesome freethinkers and lawbreakers (often homicidally) once they've served their purpose -- then it's natural that other anarchists would call them on it.