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.
This could be a language problem. In my mother tongue a vegetarian still consumes dairy products and eggs and maybe wears leather. And If you drink milk, eat cheese/yoghurt/butter, your ok with killing animals. A cow needs a calf to give milk, and the calves are being slaughtered because a dairy farm has not the space to keep them around.
There’s like a million reasons some people can’t affort to go full vegan, and shittalking people who at least do something is not a good idea when the majority doesn’t care. It’s like saying people who use public transport are ok with global warming because they could just walk or ride a bike.