I was listening to this series on audio book in the shower when this occurred to me. ‘Gadara’ is a fantasy species of wolfpeople’s word for enemies that are respected and even trusted. A worthy foe sort of thing.
The idea is that the predatory wolf people believe friends can betray you, but an enemy can be trusted to act in their own self interest if they show themselves to be an honorable sort. Each party to the relationship maintains their status as enemies and expects the other to kill them if given the opportunity, but also can work together against threats to both. Being a gadara to someone also confers a bit of protection with your gadara’s allies. A gadara can vouch for each other, and have laid claim to the honor of killing the other. So vouching for a gadara is saying “I want to be the one to kill this one, please respect that and leave them to me.”
So to bring this around, an understanding between individual tankies and anarchists where both parties understand their ideals are incompatible, but the other can be trusted to work against fash would be a pretty useful arrangement. If we don’t look past each other to the greater threat of fascism we won’t be around long enough to get to have our fight in the end.
Opposed: Yes Shunned: Might be pragmatic to not-shun
You mean like vegans teaming up with butchers to fight against the meat-industry?
I mean yeah that kinda works as a metaphor. Imagine if vegans and butchers teamed up to destroy Tyson foods before going back to being enemies
That does not make sense. Vegans teaming up with vegetarians may make a bit more sense, but even in this is not plausible because vegetarians are ok with killing animals, they are just not ok with eating them.
Thank you. You have expertly exemplified why we keep losing ground to the right wing. Leftist purity culture is the number one tool of the right. If we’re all busy infighting and not willing to overlook differences in order to achieve common goals, we are always going to lose.
As a vegetarian, if I have to partner with butchers in order to destroy commercial meat farming, I absolutely would. Because I care more about stopping commercial meat farming than I do about failing but feeling pure.