Libertarian Vanguardism, sounds problematic, doesn't it? Vanguardism as far as we have known from its practice is contradictory to libertarian principles and values. It is about leading a movement to reform/overthrow/take-over/liberate and has an object, economy, state, society, etc. Libertarian principles are those that society in general or social groups can organize on, and from that organization eventually will come the revolution. But what would drive people to want to organize? That was the role of the ideological vanguard to create the motive for people to organize, usually under the leadership of those that inspired them. What appears as contradictory and nearly mutually exclusive to any possibility of synthesis may not be. There may be a way that a vanguard can respect libertarian principles, and libertarians will welcome such a vanguard. How?
It has taken a century and a half to reach this wonderful moment of history of stagnant anti-capitalist theoretical, ideological, and organizational fragments, all tied up with sectarian bibliography, without a single hint that there can ever be a bridge between the fragments, a synthesis between the incompatible threads. It would be equally anti-dialectic to speculate there can never be synthesis and can never be honest discussion about this. As if anti-capitalism A has totally different goals than anti-capitalism B.
If you are concerned about the above and you feel there is both a need and a hope for bridging the gaps, to provide the grounds for synthesis, then join the club. It may seem as a lonely and unpopular path but if you strive for popularity and the social life of a massive movement, this may not be the right path, but for some it is a path that needs to be attempted.
If you also do not pursue a personal recognition and hierarchical placement within something developing, then using unique nicknames to promote discussion may be all we need. Unfortunately neocities is not a platform for discussion and comments, but diaspora is, and a tag in one of the diaspora federated servers is all we need to meet, without too much visibility and noise (like reddit and other social media), or be subjected to the restrictions of mastodon servers gagging expression to a default 500 characters, we propose the tag #libvan on dispora as a place where discussion can take place, then possibly be transferred here.
Tips for using diaspora after you sign up in any server
Discussion room @ https://diaspora-fr.org/tags/libvan (use any diaspora server you like to sign up )
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