legit question not for any argumentative reason but also when/if you respond I may also have a response that pushes back. No harm tho.
When it comes to being an anarchist what do you actually imagine the end game being? I also agree the powers that be are shit. But anarchy in my mind will lead to small collectives of people like feudal socialism or something.
I appreciate you want to understand. For a bit more research for yourself, I’m actually an anarcho-syndicalist. I’m also pretty unique even within that ideology, fwiw. What I imagine is a socialist library economy, in which the librarians are elected and the library is the primary method of distributing goods. The librarians are also responsible for managing and automating work and food production. I imagine a solarpunk society where communities are mostly self sustaining but also interdependent. I imagine a world that has no need for money.
I also imagine that unions represent both their communities and the workers within the community and that all managers within workplaces are elected. When the many various dealings happen between communities, I imagine something similar to haudenosaunee council meetings. Each community sends a proportional bargaining committee of their population, and the largest communities must reach consensus between and with each other before being decided on by and between consensus from the smaller communities. Tentative agreements must then be voted and ratified through simple majority by all communities to be considered participants in the contracts. I’m sure people will say “that’s too slow”. To that I say, you’ve never seen how quick a union can turn around an emergency meeting.
Very interesting, thank you for the write-up! Out of curiosity, how does a moneyless society work?
Just I do you solids, you do me solids? How does a moneyless society allow trade if one party doesn’t have any goods the other party wants?
There’s many different types of moneyless economies. Just gonna spitball a couple ancient ones at you.
In a gift economy, individuals will create things and share them amongst the the community. These gifts just keep being given over and over, and not reciprocating a gift eventually leads to poor standing.
In a community stockpile, everyone works together to collect what others need. A group essentially tracks the stockpiling and helps determine how the stockpile should be used, such as in times of low yield.
My understanding is that Marx believed that there’d eventually be a day when people would essentially do group-makes for whatever they needed or wanted. Basically no money or anything - one guy would go “I want this”, he and others would volunteer, they’d all work together to design a fabrication process, and then would all make as many of the thing as there were those who wanted it. A completely volunteer process.
centrist libertarian
So you’re like a fish that can breathe in space?
I’m purely about individual liberties for all individuals.
That makes me absolutely centrist, and in defiance of the societal definitions of the word “libertarian”, I’m using it in that specific context.
If you’ve got a better term, lay it on me :)
Except it’s probably true. In the US centrist is usually used as a way go say between the two parties. In reality it’s used to say between capitalism and basically everything else. So groups like the democrats are on the right. The are what’s generally referred to as “right of center.” They are not in the center of the right, but just a little past centrist. And to he exact, they would be authoritarian right of center on the political compass.
The Republicans are further right and further into the authoritarian square.
So for you to be lib center, you would need to be to the left and further south from the democrats
Which means the dems are between you and the Republicans
But yet even though you’re closer to dems politically, you prefer the ones that are so far removed from you that you likely have little to nothing in common
Vs the dems who are closer to you politically
Feel free to make it make sense, but the majority of the time I see other Americans talk about being center or libertarian, they really mean right wing authoritarians who just want no taxes and sometimes legal weed
Not if you’re familiar with him
I mean, of all the things you could pull out about Steve Harvey, this is about the tamest.
This reads like a manager who’s stressing out about being too busy at work, and his therapist told him to write a letter and not hit send, and then he hit send.
“⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” five star meme
—Peter Travers <Rolling Stone>
being dumb
You replied to some else with “no u”…
Pot, meet kettle.
Not really. It was more that conservatives thought they could controll the far right and made appeasement their main doctrine.
The left (that was a lot more left than nowadays) was always against the Nazis.
First time I hear that term, it is not used in German. Yeah, there was a minority wing in the NSDAP who had some socialists views. The NSDAP was not a monolithic group, unlike many might believe. They also had a lot of esoteric people.
But they are not the ones who brought Hitler to power. That was Paul von Hindenburg, Franz von Papen, a group of industrialists (Industrielleneingabe) and, of course, the people, that voted for him.
It is all pretty well documented.