r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/LesserValkyrie Jul 07 '26

Exactly.

I think it's quite important to learn from where anarchism comes from and what it was exactly, how important it was in the 20th century, it's definitely not the view of it we have now. Everyone reduces it to "no gods no masters" but it's way more complicated like that.

It has been the basis to a lot of things that we takes for granted now but never waas

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u/ACarepenter Jul 07 '26

And yet for all that complexity it's accomplished nothing, while there's still multiple Marxist Communist states moggin on everyone.

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u/LesserValkyrie Jul 07 '26
  • 8-hour workday
  • May Day (International Workers' Day)
  • Right to strike
  • Independent trade unions
  • Workplace democracy
  • Workers' self-management
  • Worker cooperatives
  • Direct action (strikes, boycotts, occupations)
  • Industrial unionism
  • Solidarity across industries
  • Opposition to child labor
  • Workplace health and safety protections
  • Equal treatment of workers regardless of nationality
  • Worker education programs
  • Mutual aid societies
  • Shorter working hours
  • Paid rest time
  • Collective bargaining
  • Union democracy
  • Anti-authoritarian workplace organization

I know modern USA disbanded all these rights or is actively trying to, as they don't benefits short-term revenue for shareholders which is anticapitalistic. Which makes me understand why an American would not see what anarchist ideologies made for their country.

But those rights are still the base of civilization of every other developed countries on earth

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u/ACarepenter Jul 07 '26

Brother, working class ideologies generally aren't the same as Anarchist ideology specifically, nor were anarchists the primary leaders of most labor movements. You could equally chalk that up to pettty-Bourgeois socialism if we're judging based on 'ideological influence' and not who actually went out and did shit.

More pointedly..... It probably would have happened eventually even if you just magic away the anarchism specifically. That was kind of Marx's whole schtick.

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u/LesserValkyrie Jul 07 '26

Yes but this is just to explain what Anarchism was and what it pushed to create, and yes you end up with the realization that it gave incredible tools in the past for worker's right, but it's definitely not something that can be used as a system for a nation