a better way of living

people already stray towards anarchism when capitalist systems fail

if they can't afford food they "steal". instead of buying tv and movies and music they just pirate them

if they can't afford a home they squat

I see

poor people, on average, are much more supportive of leftist resource distribution, which can really help facilitate anarchism

this is why anarchists and communists typically work together

so while an anarchist is *opposed* to a central authority providing healthcare for all, we see it as superior because it's a way of opting out of the capitalist model of buying healthcare

So what if both anarchists and communists rose to power worldwide together?

that's the other big struggle within anarchist politics

how would it be possible to defend from the communists?

it's happened a few times now

where both work together to achieve an egalitarian society

and then the communists afterwards oppress anarchists to push their model of government

usually communism at that point then turns into a dictatorship, is corrupted, and ends up with capitalism again

So this happened in soviet russia?

this is why the "overthrowing the state alongside anarchists" never works

right

you can see it wherever communists start getting power

anarchists support because the progress is beneficial to us

and then communists fuck everyone over once in power

this is why I'm supportive of "weening off" the reliance of state+capitalism

Also, how would you explain the opposing of the leftist ideologies in Russia nowadays?

rather than trying to overpower and overthrow it from the inside

right so in russia what had happened was that communists got into power

and power naturally corrupts (which is why anarchists oppose it)

they switched leaders at one point iirc

and eventually they ended up being corrupt and turning into a dictatorship

after that people saw that communism wasn't working

black markets popped up

and they grew in support

we see this same process happening in north korea right now

they're migrating from communism to capitalism

I see, so the anarchists need another ideology to grow in power, but then this same ideology who helped them destroys them?

exactly

so anarchists have traditionally had two routes to our ideology

the first is the one I just described. help communists, then when in power dissolve government/ownership

the second is what you see in the middle east and places like egypt

a violent revolution, usually alongside communists and disgruntled capitalists

the problem is that it ends up with a power vaccuum, and a dictator takes the stand for people to follow

so basically: tear down and become a dictatorship, or build up and become communist then a dictatorship