Comrade Spood

Nestor Makhno actually said that flag was not a flag used by the the Makhnovists. It was misattributed to them by the Bolsheviks in a book that was basically a hit piece and slander against the Makhnovists. Its actually the flag of the Dnieper Division, led by Svyryd Kotsur. Who was also an an-com and actually met Nestor Makhno while they were both in prison.

Still a banging flag, and I do have it. I also have the skull and crossbones of it on my punk jacket.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Makhnovshchina

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svyryd_Kotsur

Evangelion colors

I feel like simply supporting the people in their defense accomplishes the same thing without also supporting nation states in any way.

Then my question is why support the state at all?

I think you have the right values, but I think your conclusion is a bit off. I think supporting a state is antithetical to being an anarchist. You can support the people, and not a state. For example I support the Ukrainian people in their defense against the Russian state’s imperialism, however I do not support the Ukrainian state. I think its fine to think some states are better than others, but supporting a state is something else entirely. We need to break away from the idea of the nation state, and stop equating people with the nation state they are a part of.

Edit: To add to this, I do not think an anarcho-communist society is idealism, and I don’t think we should settle for a “pragmatic” alternative. I think too many anarchists have fallen into a defeatist mentality, and while support anarchism, they dont believe it to be tangible. I think that is what makes anarchism intangible currently, too many of us don’t believe we can win. We lose by giving up