> “What I find disturbing, and unfathomable, is how so many people who self-identify as anarchist, communist, &/or anti-authoritarian, are cheer-leading for world war”
Who did this?
> “in collaboration with, or in support of, and in complete agreement with, capitalist-imperialist propaganda.”
Where did anyone do this?
> “Are you, and they, also willing to join up and participate in the fight? Because if so, you would not be fighting for any sort of anti-authoritarian, anarchist or communist society.”
There are literal anarchist units fighting on the front line against Russian imperialist aggression.
> “Even if that's what you wanted, your participation would be in collaboration with capitalists and imperialists”
The morality of self-defense is not defined by who might receive ancillary benefits. Striking workers should similarly not refrain from undermining their employer because a rival capitalist might stand to benefit.
I am similarly capable of supporting Palestinian resistance to Israeli aggression without endorsing Hamas, because people are people and not components of homogenous ethno-nationalist teams.
> “Would I like to see Putin gone? Of course. Along with the entire class of people who own the world. But not through a war run by the U.S. & European govts, for the benefit of their oligarchs, using poor and working-class people as the fodder.”
I’m not aware of anyone who imagines that self-defense by Ukrainians against Russian imperialist aggression will somehow overthrow Putin.
> “Because that's what this conflict is really all about. A war for the spoils of Russia, using Ukraine as its initial shock troops, and the rest of the European, and possibly U.S., working class as additional fodder, as the Ukrainian working shrinks through attrition.”
Seems like something the Ukrainian working class should decide for itself.