Libs thinking we’re on their side, until the point we reject electoralism and US imperialist propaganda. Then label as as “tankies”.
Campists thinking we’re on their side until the point we reject “AES” and “left unity”. Then label as a “liberals”.
Anarchists are clearly the rare species of “liberal tankie” 😆
In part. States have a lot of trouble understanding anything that isn’t as centralised as a state. Consequently state militaries and intelligence agencies are highly specialised towards attacking these targets and going after the infrastructure they depend on.
When confronted by more horizontally organised structures they tend to get drawn into situations that become long drawn out guerrilla wars. Or playing whackamole with insurgency cells.
Afghanistan, and after we destabilized it, Iraq are good examples.
I wonder if that’s part of why the Taliban reportedly hate having to actually run Afghanistan?
It’s still a bunch of assholes with guns though, which sucks.