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Oh what so just don't have a state? You'd need some powerful ruling body to prevent one from arising.

"I told you. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week."

This is an inversion of what really happened. If they were so scared of leftcoms, why did the FBI/CIA use left-communism as a vehicle to disrupt socialist organizing within the US during COINTELPRO, operation CHAOS, etc? Why did they partially bankroll the Frankfurt school through the CCF? (Because it was nonthreatening, and a great tool to split the left.)

Compatibism (between leftcoms and neoliberal imperialists) as a strategy is well-known. Here’s a few resources for you:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/15/why-the-cia-cares-ab...

https://intellectualhistory.site.ox.ac.uk/article/a-conversa...

https://www.academia.edu/34758095/Cold_War_Comrades_Left_Lib...

When the leftcoms get too old they just repackage them as neoconservatives: https://gwydionwilliams.com/history-and-philosophy/10-1-more...