Forgive me if I don’t have a lot of patience for opposing Palestinian statehood without a very good reason.

Apology accepted. And I apologize for not citing all my sources in a two sentence comment I hastily wrote before going to sleep.

If they were brought to a similar system to what virtually everyone lives under, it would be a massive improvement in their lives.

True. I said it’s not liberation but gradually better for sure. I have the impression that you read alot into my short comment.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. You’re not engaging with the arguments and you’re not looking at the material conditions, it’s purely this knee-jerk ideological opposition to states in general, with zero analysis beyond that. You don’t see a problem with that?

I’m still not very motivated to put energy into arguing with people who insult me but the short version is that power corrupts (see Lenin) and positions of power attract people who don’t have the interest of the masses in mind (see Stalin). Anark talks about that. That’s why the USSR didn’t wither away but instead centralized power away from the soviets (read councils) and to the party. I’m sure you will tell me who the party were all workers and oppression by workers is different. I heard it before. It didn’t convince me then. If you want to read a contemporary anarchist perspective on the USSR, I recommend Emma Goldman, eg There Is No Communism In Russia.

And to point to some “theory” that informed my position: I read Perfect Victims and I’m currently reading Palestine A Socialist Introduction. The former has a nationalist perspective and the latter I would categorize as Trotzkist tho I’m not sure. Neither of them nor the Palestinians on my local protests have anything positive to say about the PA. The latter book also talks about other Arab nations are lead by leaders who are complicit with the US and Israel against the will of their people. You don’t have to a an anarchist (tho it doesn’t hurt) to see national liberation in the global south with a critical lens. But to summarize an anticolonial anarchist perspective: By building nation states, they copied the power structure of the oppressors and therefore invited people willing to cooperate with the (former) colonialists. If I have the impression that it’s worth it, I might elaborate a little more.