Truly living up to their tankie label.
‘How can we convince people to move away from a capitalist society?’
‘by murdering them ofc’
Humanity desperately needs to move away from capitalism, if it wants any chance of survival. Either that or we install a Universal base income system.
I agree. I am actually becoming more inclined towards socialism sans the totalitarianism. We might have a chance once we start taxing AI and robots. After all, our data are stolen to train AI. We should get more tangible benefits from it.
Socialism nor communism are supposed to have any amount of totalitarianism… The people who think they do are ignorant fools listening to the capitalist propaganda.
The countries that call themselves socialist or communist are distinctly NOT in most cases. They’re just the same old asshole ruling class userping the language of socialism/communism to trick dumb people in to maintaining support.
Kind of like how the US calls itself “the land of the free” despite being built on slavery and ethnic cleansing of natives, now with the highest prison population in the world…
If some country is calling themselves something… ALWAYS press X to doubt.
Socialism nor communism are supposed to have any amount of totalitarianism…
Any organisations need some level of authority to maintain order. But if we are talking about totalitarianism which means controlling every aspects of individual lives including who to marry, how many kids to have, how should you plant crops, what to think, what to say etc., then that it is a problem that shouldn’t be tolerated.
Eh… debatable on “authority” being the required attribute. Responsibility is certainly a better word for what an ideal society would look like for many informed anarchists, as far as what many people think of as “authority” now.
Also, “authority” does not have to be something that is given without guard rails or time limits. The authority to arrest and imprison people can exist in a society without full time police, for example. No single person needs to be granted authority as a de facto thing.
I would be much more in favour of anarchism, but I think there needs to be a global wide cultural shift first to happen. Counterparts on the other side of the planet has to be on the same page first before anarchism would take root. But realistically, at the moment, there are far too many diverse expectations and values to allow mutual understanding. Talk to a Somali, Egyptian, Bolivian or Korean about anarchism and you would probably get a confused eyebrow raised on what it means, or even hostile response. I think the lines of communications and technology have to dramatically transform first, to allow organic cultural exchanges and mutual development towards anarchism.
Y’all both sound like children.
“Going high when they go low” isn’t a sound strategy when someone threatens to kill. This underestimation and softness is what leads to the authoritarianism on either side. Nothing wrong with dipping one’s hand into the mud once in a while without fully bathing one’s self into the mud. Even Slavoj Zizek advocated for having a “soft dictator” like Franklin Roosevelt to counter extremism.
Slavoj Zizek also advocated for voting for Donald Trump in 2016 and says that “transgenderism is incompatible with Freud”, so his advocacy doesn’t count for much AFAIAC.
I don’t know about his comment on transgenderism, but Slavoj advocating to vote Trump is more about shaking up the liberal status quo to wake them up and actually do a better job, rather than him supporting Trump, and also to do away with Democrat Party’s mantra of “vote blue no matter” and their proud label of “lesser evil”. Come Trump 2.0, his reasoning proved to be prescient and correct. The Democrat leadership are fighting harder to stop the progressive Zohran Mamdani taking power as New York Democrat mayor, than actually stopping the Republican fascist agenda. As we speak, the Democrat betting on the “voting blue no matter who” is starting to crumble from the POV of voters as outsider progressives are slowly gaining ground.
I don’t think his reasoning was prescient and correct, though.
If Trump wins, both big parties, Republicans and Democratics, would have to return to basics, rethink themselves, and maybe some things can happen there. That’s my desperate, very desperate hope, that if Trump wins—listen, America is not a dictatorial state, he will not introduce Fascism—but it will be a kind of big awakening. New political processes will be set in motion, will be triggered.
he will not introduce Fascism
Neither party rethought anything (your point about Mamdani shows just how little the Dems have rethought) and now the US is rounding people up to put them in camps.
And re. the transgenderism/Freud comment, I think it mostly serves to show that he puts way more stock in Freud than he should, because Freudian psychology is largely a load of wank.
(Yes, the use of a sexually based pejorative to disparage Freud was deliberate. Please appreciate my clever joke.)
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The fact that you aren’t killing tankies and fascists on-sight is why they keep coming back like roaches to threaten vulnerable people, so this is partially your fault for being a impotent pacifist group of pearl-clutchers that only complain online all fucking day.
If you have a termite infestation, do you let them stay in your house? Do you bargain or negotiate with them? No, you fumigate them into near genocidal fury of they will eat the insides of your home until it collapses on top of you in your sleep and kill you.
Are you advocating for murder or is this just deeply unfunny sarcasm?
I’m saying that I’m a moron and you shouldn’t listen to me.
Screaming out loud that it’s ingroup / outgroup tribalism.
