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Weird everyone knows that the only true justice is that meted out by hammering the nearest crafter for failing to meet production mandates.
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Mantis42 posted:It's a good book but also the moon anarchist should have sided with the USSR analog instead of whining about everything. Look, anarchism can work! You just need to somehow get the capitalists to send you to a completely different planetary body!! I actually can't remember how they even got there it's been so long since I read that book; did they just annoy both the USSR/US analogs enough that they both sent them to the moon (that sounded like it was a pretty lovely place)?
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Yeah the anarchists getting the moon was essentially a compromise deal to try to stave off world revolution by shipping all of the radicals off to the colonies The anarchists got the short end of the stick, too - not only is the moon a barren wasteland that can barely produce enough food to sustain a population, it's also explicitly stated that the only reason the anarchists are allowed to continue existing up there is because they keep the flow of raw materials the moon was originally settled for coming. They're described as a 'resource colony' and it's mentioned that the periodic shipments of mined minerals are major events for the capitalist state's stock market - so not only did sending them up there end the general strike and stop the revolution, the anarchists are actually directly perpetuating the capitalist state's existence and are functionally still participating in the capitalist world-system in every way that matters. This is explicit text, too, it's not just implied. When she calls it an 'ambiguous utopia' it's ambiguous in more ways than one
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Apr 28, 2024 06:42
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Naturally the anarchists think they're totally free and independent, too It really is perfect
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the anarchists also operate under a system of societal pressure more oppressive than an actual authoritarian state would be to force everyone into doing exactly what the non-state state demands, idk if she actually did read it while she was writing but the tyranny of the structurelessness came out while she would have been writing
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fermun posted:the anarchists also operate under a system of societal pressure more oppressive than an actual authoritarian state would be to force everyone into doing exactly what the non-state state demands, idk if she actually did read it while she was writing but the tyranny of the structurelessness came out while she would have been writing beginning to see a pattern here: songs of syx dev made a nazi game by depicting racism le guin wrote an anti-anarchist book by depicting colonialism and poverty (accidentally lol)
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Apr 28, 2024 09:17
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Dont think it was by accident
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Apr 28, 2024 09:46
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anarchists reinventing the state and just calling it something else you say?
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it's a really good book, btw
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depicting racism isn’t the problem; making criminal behaviour a function of race is
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racism is fundamentally a feature of the superstructure; its a generated thought-system to continously enforce the inherent hierarchies and material differences within society, from different groups against others any game or media attempting to model racism that does not understand this relationship is wasting your time Iriscoral has issued a correction as of 12:49 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Apr 28, 2024 12:22
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throwing Pac-Man in the loving trash for its lack of thoughtful critique of cybernetic racism
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Iriscoral posted:racism is fundamentally a feature of the superstructure; its a generated thought-system to continously enforce the inherent hierarchies and material differences within society, from different groups against others Even unmodded minecraft?
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Oh gently caress I just remembered the endermen
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