Anarchist Antimilitarism and the Trap of Essentialism
Screengrab of a video re-shared by the Dezertér Instagram account. The Ukrainian and Russian soldiers embrace as the video continues. The on-image text reads: ‘Peace among nations!’. The decription reads: ‘Fight against the rich, NOT in their wars!’ The comment reads ‘Sora’, to suggest that the video has been AI-generated.
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation has generated division within the global anarchist scene. Lejnad Hnát analyses how these divisions are expressed by the Czech anarchist publication Dezertér,especially focusing on how they use certain language to ostracize opinions that fall outside their interpretation of antimilitarism.
