The obvious lesson to be learned from the r/antiwork collapse is the same one to be learned from every other spontaneous semi-organized movement in the last few years: the bourgeoisie will exploit the absence of a principled central organ and well-organized central committee.
The fleet of professional anti-communists that make up the state and media demand a fleet of professional communists. Vanguardism is not a power grab from the proletariat, it is the necessary construction of a fist with which to smash the state.
r/antiwork's "anti-authoritarian" rejection of concentrated and professional revolutionary ideology is precisely what caused it to fold under its first confrontation with authority.
I should also say, so that there is no confusion, a central organ is not principled simply because it is centralized, nor is a central committee well-organized or even revolutionary simply because it is a central committee. We all have to demand the best from our vanguard.
Look no further than the counter-revolutionary central committee of the PCF during the May '68 uprising in France to see the equally shameful failures an inadequate centralized body can do to a movement.
Oh my god Reddit mods aren't a central comittee, the QRTs are in hell
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