lumpenproletariatthe trouble with anarchism is all that liberty
username_1The part where that random guy with a bigger gun than mine will start making decisions for me.
You mean what literally happens today where the US does whatever it wants? And the states with their guns makes the citizens follow its laws?
And how would anarchy fix that if nothing would change?
Who said nothing would change?
We currently live in a top-down system, where a handful of rich influential people decide everything. Anarchism is a bottom-up system where the people directly decide everything.
The same people who overwhelmingly voted this shitshow into power?
@breakingcups @Deceptichum ur being such a lib rn ngl. The solution to authoritarianism isn’t your version of it. Full anarchism isn’t a realistic solution but a few steps in that direction is definitely something we need. Too much power is consolidated by the state and that just has to change. We have to be more self sufficient than we are and rely on our immediate community for help not a large governing entity
SigntistBut unless we kill everyone who has access to those big guns, they’ll still have access to them after the system changes. I agree that a change needs to happen, but I can’t really wrap my head around how we’re going to stop people with city-destroying bombs, who wouldn’t hesitate to use them on American soil if their lives were at risk. We either let them live, and keep their weapons, or we try to kill them and get taken out in a firestorm of mutually assured destruction. Taking about what we’re going to do after we’ve won that battle just feels like planning a wedding before asking someone out on a date.
The only way it would be better under anarchy is that you would no longer be shouldering the moral burden of participating.
In a democracy you need to come to terms with the fact that things are shitty. I held my nose and voted for Harris because YES she would have still allowed Israel to continue their campaign of terror against Gaza, but there’s a laundry list of terrible things that have happened under Trump that absolutely would not have under Harris.
To be an anti-democracy anarchist is to hide your head in the sand. To stand at the trolley switch without touching it, trying to convince yourself that the blood is not on your hands. Trying to pretend like we can sequester off pieces of this one planet into containers that do not impact each other.
It’s a great ideology for teenagers explore. To see things in extremes and think more abstractly without getting bigger down with the details of reality.