"this"

but really, I wonder how much of what we're feeling is the absence of repost bots, and serial karma farmers.

they yearn for the glorious people's boot

anti authoritarian*

you're telling on yourself

look for anarchists if you desire a classless, stateless, moneyless society.

communism has been coopted by auth apologists infatuated with the color red.

this is the most generous possible interpretation of the gadsden, while ignoring its current usage, as well as ignoring the anti-authoritarian meaning behind the sabocat, and red/black scheme.

ps: the American revolution was a lateral move, replacing a hereditary monarchy with a dictatorship of capital. The 'founding fathers' were their time's equivalent of musk and bezos, and they explicitly wanted to protect the interest of the capital owning class from the will of the working class and those humans who they kept as property.

"I care deeply about the color of the boot"

"he's not hurting the right people, " painted red

heirarchy in any form

https://lemmy.world/c/jbrc

profit is theft

no state has achieved the liberation of the working class, because the function of the state is to expand and perpetuate its hegemonic power and influence. state authority is fundamentally oppressive.

do you consider that a rebuttal?

I hereby submit myself for consideration. I firmly oppose authoritarian apologists and jerks.

radical solidarity, mutual aid, armed community defense. none of these require the state apparatus.

Google no pasaran

cringe and/or lame

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

anarchism acknowledges Marxist theory, but rejects the need for a state/beaurocratic apparatus, as it is considered to be fundamentally oppressive.

the state is an abstraction of capital, and cannot liberate the working class, as it exists to perpetuate its own hegemonic existence, our subjugation.

governance need not be heirarchichal; I promote collective mutual determination as an egalitarian system by which society can organize.

can't dismantle the master's house with the master's tools

that depends if you draw distinction between the people and the state (which is merely an abstraction of capital)

state capitalism, as defined by lenin, is not a classless society, and is indefensible as a liberatory philosophy.

just as liberalism abolished the monarchy only to replace it with a dictatorship of private capital, authoritarian socialism replaced monarchy with a beaurocratic ruling class and unilateral control of the means of production.

the neck cares not the color of the boot

I oppose one more system of authority than you do, in the interest of ideological consistency, intellectual honesty.

are you taking the position of a literal child?

just to chime in with an anarchist perspective-- majority rule, as lionized by proponents of liberal democracies, is itself a form of heirarchy in which the will of an ostensible 'majority' (though usually that of the capital- owning class actually) is inflicted upon society as a whole, alienating the minority position, enforced by the state apparatus' monopoly of violence.

if one values bodily autonomy, reconciled with the needs of the collective, a system of governance like mutual collective determination must be established which guarantees that all voices are heard and acknowledged.

offer some pawns a position of priveledge in return for enforcing your hegemony by inflicting violence on other pawns.

imagine a society not dependent on individual charity (with wealth expropriated from the working class) for improving material wellbeing.

does a 'nice' king justify monarchy?

no. power centralized in the beaurocratic state apparatus is also oppressive. electoral politics are a sham, and democracy is impotent when the capital owning class can simply buy influence.

if 9 people vote to kill the 10th, is that just?

authoritarian brain-worms

"what if our classless stateless society had the right class controlling the state?"

I'm an anarchist, but nice try.

"negative peace "

reactionary recuperation of revolutionary aesthetic-- shallow, reductive simulacrum of class analysis, stripped of systemic critique, intersectionality, and radical solidarity.

conservative pandering. lame af.

cringe

based and sustainability-pilled

tongue-ass national forest😻

popular elections in an ecosystem 1/4 bots, in which the admins hold ultimate unilateral authority.

promoted to cop/landlord

je suis l'etat-man

good luck

ps: you may be an anarchist

completely ignoring the relationship in which a worker must sell their labor as a commodity to a capital-owning class.

work != labor

the actual criticism by those on the left is that private ownership of the means of production necessitates an inequitable heirarchical relationship between an ownership class and the working class.

this relationship is enforced by the state, which is essentially an abstraction of capital, by inflicting violence in order to protect the interest of the capital owning class.

neoliberalism is conservative in that it functions to conserve this status quo, offering incremental material improvement as a social pressure-release valve, but liberal democracy can not deliver liberation to the working class because of its primary function of enforcing private capital.

most liberals don't consider neoliberalism conservative because the coloqial usage in US contemporary politics is referring to the reactionary position of the christo-fascist right.

neoliberalism is a conservative philosophy which seeks to perpetuate an unjust and unsustainable capitalist hegemony.

new crab lore just dropped

this is news?