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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

i work with mutual aid ppl in my community and they have this little book available to people to explain the tenets of mutual aid. the first example, in the preface, of a positive expression of mutual aid, is Hong Kong protestors in 2020 blowing up a quarantine hospital during Covid Lol.

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swimsuit
Jan 22, 2009

yeah
scan and post lol

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


pnac attack posted:

i'm talking about operating at a scale you actually have agency at. governments are made up. if you just pretend they don't exist they pretty much don't. this system cannot stand so develop skills and get with your neighbors and work outside of it as much as you can. that's how everything works at the bottom anyways. if i climb it will be slow, i'm bringing everyone i know and stopping on the 6th or 7th rung. worry about the problems within your sphere of influence. where your actions actually matter. rapists exist and the world's on fire, but what can you do about that that's more useful than being there for whoever you're with?

said i didn't know what AN ideal society would look like but i'll try again just for you.


Oh so just sovereign citizen bullshit. How derivative.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Fortaleza posted:

This honeypot thread rules

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
seems like pretty bad 'leftism' to view the individual as the most important unit of society, but whatever

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


Like it's just rewarmed objectivism with more weed smoking and music lyrics.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Sedisp posted:

Like it's just rewarmed objectivism with more weed smoking and music lyrics.

horseshoe theory is right but only when you apply it to anarchism and libertarianism

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


my bony fealty posted:

horseshoe theory is right but only when you apply it to anarchism and libertarianism

Yeah. Seeing a redditor's political ideas personified has been a wild night

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


Bro have you ever thought of like how people like they don't exist if you just like pretend they don't.

That's hella based bruh

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



In Training posted:

i work with mutual aid ppl in my community and they have this little book available to people to explain the tenets of mutual aid. the first example, in the preface, of a positive expression of mutual aid, is Hong Kong protestors in 2020 blowing up a quarantine hospital during Covid Lol.

Hong Kong is one of the most hyper capitalist and unequal societies on earth, of COURSE anarchists loving love it lmao

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Epic High Five posted:

Anarchism is when you mistake a police withdrawal for a conquest and get your zone with hard borders turned into an amusement park for liberals until your own security, made paranoid by a still operating openly mafioso rib stand and a tiktok influencer arming his loyalists, executes two black teenagers

The king of anarchists really embarrassed themselves with that one

But really, if people are gonna try and blame anarchists in general for every thing that happens, aren't there gonna be some questions back about the millions more deaths from communism? Anarchists are so ineffective they couldn't kill at that scale if they wanted to.

xtal has issued a correction as of 12:26 on Jul 19, 2021

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

No True Anarchist

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
One simple trick to avoid all accountability is having no leaders to point a finger at :dumb:

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Kaedric posted:

What is the answer to this in a post-communist society? Not being glib, actually want to know.

We haven’t even got to communism and you are already trying to figure out post communism? Where are you in time and space? You are asking a question that has no answer

John Charity Spring
Nov 4, 2009

SCREEEEE

xtal posted:

The king of anarchists really embarrassed themselves with that one

But really, if people are gonna try and blame anarchists in general for every thing that happens, aren't there gonna be some questions back about the millions more deaths from communism? Anarchists are so ineffective they couldn't kill at that scale if they wanted to.

which millions of deaths are those

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

John Charity Spring posted:

which millions of deaths are those

I was thinking of the three years of famine when I wrote it, but there are probably other examples

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

John Charity Spring posted:

which millions of deaths are those

Communism has not yet replaced capitalism so every death caused by capitalism is a victim of communism.

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


xtal posted:

I was thinking of the three years of famine when I wrote it, but there are probably other examples

Your argument that anarchism couldn't organize a large enough society to fail millions is really not the shining endorsement you think it is.

a Loving Dog
May 12, 2001

more like a Barking Dog, woof!

xtal posted:

The king of anarchists really embarrassed themselves with that one

But really, if people are gonna try and blame anarchists in general for every thing that happens, aren't there gonna be some questions back about the millions more deaths from communism? Anarchists are so ineffective they couldn't kill at that scale if they wanted to.

lmfao

a Loving Dog
May 12, 2001

more like a Barking Dog, woof!
anarchists are SOoOoooOooOoOoO stupid lol

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

the only differences between anarchists and libertarians are that libertarians like the market and anarchists don't, and libertarians say "contract" when anarchists say "consent". That's it, because they're both just different flavors of liberal -- the only thing that has any rights or freedoms, is the isolated, sovereign individual, and the only thing that matters is their subjective experience.

actually the libertarian is a lot more coherent because contracts are understood to include consequences for the breaking of it, whereas if you act badly (???) a leaderless (???) horizontal group of anarchists will spontaneously self-assemble (???) to dispense mob justice. very cool.

xtal posted:

The king of anarchists really embarrassed themselves with that one

But really, if people are gonna try and blame anarchists in general for every thing that happens, aren't there gonna be some questions back about the millions more deaths from communism? Anarchists are so ineffective they couldn't kill at that scale if they wanted to.

ja, mein fuhrgood buddy, let us talk about ze millions und millions of deaths!

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007



drat,,,, yall seen this?? huge if true

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Pentecoastal Elites posted:

the only differences between anarchists and libertarians are that libertarians like the market and anarchists don't, and libertarians say "contract" when anarchists say "consent". That's it, because they're both just different flavors of liberal -- the only thing that has any rights or freedoms, is the isolated, sovereign individual, and the only thing that matters is their subjective experience.

actually the libertarian is a lot more coherent because contracts are understood to include consequences for the breaking of it, whereas if you act badly (???) a leaderless (???) horizontal group of anarchists will spontaneously self-assemble (???) to dispense mob justice. very cool.

ja, mein fuhrgood buddy, let us talk about ze millions und millions of deaths!

The two foundational trees of anarchism are individual and collective. Anarcho-communism, for example, is just communism without a state. There's nothing individual about it.

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

I understand that anarchists have positive feelings about the collective but the exclusive holder of rights and freedoms in anarchism is the individual, as opposed to communism in which the collective is the thing with the rights and freedoms. This is what makes the former liberalism and the latter not

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
there is no such thing as collective rights. rights held in collective are just the privileges of whoever is in charge

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

liberalism broke your brain dude lol

Mandoric
Mar 15, 2003
conversely, rights held outside the collective are just the privileges demanded by whoever's in charge

they're a near-useless concept in the face of clearly stating class interests, tailor-made for 'mom said i got the nintendo until after dinner, and technically the meal we just had was supper' terminal lib logic

Mandoric has issued a correction as of 15:47 on Jul 19, 2021

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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Rutibex posted:

there is no such thing as collective rights. rights held in collective are just the privileges of whoever is in charge

:pwn:

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
i mean all the factories and poo poo were collectively owned in the USSR. but it turns out that it was really the commissars running the factories who actually owned them and now they are billionaires and the workers who dedicated their lives to collective ownership got nothing

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world
that's not accurate at all

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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Rutibex posted:

i mean all the factories and poo poo were collectively owned in the USSR. but it turns out that it was really the commissars running the factories who actually owned them and now they are billionaires and the workers who dedicated their lives to collective ownership got nothing

:pwn:

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

Rutibex posted:

i mean all the factories and poo poo were collectively owned in the USSR. but it turns out that it was really the commissars running the factories who actually owned them and now they are billionaires and the workers who dedicated their lives to collective ownership got nothing

:wow:

Brendan Rodgers
Jun 11, 2014




Imagine the alternate universe where Lenin and his bros horizontally decided to put all their efforts into opening a free shop in their squat.

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

there's no book you could possibly write to convince someone of the merits of communism over anarchism that would be even a fraction as powerful as this thread

Brendan Rodgers
Jun 11, 2014




AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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It might have been 10 or 15 pages ago but the really libertarian goon said they were 90% convinced about socialism.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


I never thought the militia would curb stomp MY face

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Pentecoastal Elites posted:

there's no book you could possibly write to convince someone of the merits of communism over anarchism that would be even a fraction as powerful as this thread

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Ferrinus posted:

that's not accurate at all

so the party insiders of the USSR didn't steal the state collective property and make themselves billionaires? please tell me how collective ownership of the means of production still works in russia today

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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Rutibex posted:

so the party insiders of the USSR didn't steal the state collective property and make themselves billionaires? please tell me how collective ownership of the means of production still works in russia today

:pwn:

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