@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social @foolishowl @i_dabble@strangeobject.space @mloxton Please stop making faulty assu,ptions about what I think. I’ll respond soon… :)
@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social @foolishowl @i_dabble@strangeobject.space @mloxton
I grew up in a comfortable Middle Class Capitalist society (DC/Maryland), I’m 70 years old. Companies,: manufacturing makes economic sense. I was conservative in the USN, unions opened my eyes. I have believed that properly regulated by an oversight Govt set up to serve the people, Capitalism could work. But it’s not working. Continued…
@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social @foolishowl @i_dabble@strangeobject.space @mloxton …I’m open to suggestions, but besides the fact there are no major anarchist based societies in existence, I’m not convinced that anarchy is the answer, nor see evidence that anarchy is a stable long lasting, peaceful condition, because it’s humans we are talking about.🤔
@foolishowl @RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social @i_dabble@strangeobject.space @mloxton but you have to see a path from A to B and the only path that I see to anarchy would be break down, revolution and a new start. If you’re hoping to get millions of people to volunteer for anarchy as a system, I find that to be a hard reach until things get a hell of a lot worse than they are right now, which might just happened. 🤔
@Huntn00 @RD4Anarchy @HeavenlyPossum @i_dabble @mloxton Part of what I'm trying to say is that anarchy isn't a specific system, but a struggle against hierarchy, coercion, oppression. So it's not a project to create a monolithic utopia. That would involve coercion. Rather, anarchists work on collaborative projects to meet people's needs and to resist oppression.
@foolishowl @RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social @i_dabble@strangeobject.space @mloxton so you seem to be arguing anarchy as a philosophy? 🤔 The problem is that we exist in an economic system, and to change that system you’d need broad support using an argument that the system needs to be dismantled without a path from A to B. Most people won’t buy that. Seems to me we are stuck until something forces a change.
@Huntn00 @RD4Anarchy @HeavenlyPossum @i_dabble @mloxton I think it's a mistake to imagine we're following some Leninist model where someday we have a revolution, and then we have an anarchist society. Rather it's a matter of struggling against oppression in all its forms.