So, today I was reminded why I don't ask anarchists questions.
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So, today I was reminded why I don't ask anarchists questions.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by
The person I talked with just didn't respond whenever I told them that, factually, an assumption of theirs is wrong.
They (not a representative of all anarchists, of course) just told me that Israel is currently executing a genocide so it doesn't count as a disproval of their assumption. So I gave them another example. Spain. It fit the same criteria. And it's not pro-Israel. And then they went "tell me what logical fallacy you stumbled or this conversation is over". The moment I found proper reasoning against what they said, they just disappeared. This feels weirdly similar to rightists.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by [email protected]
Anarchy being a lot of left-winged populism-s bundled under one label makes more and more sense to me.
Of course, some/most/a few (I can't really know, tbh) anarchists aren't populists. But all anarchists I've talked with deeply to date had a wrong base assumption ("psychologists can replace cops", "democracy always means majority rule over the minority"), and were joked upon by other anarchists I've talked to. Calling this a single ideology makes no sense whatsoever.
I could not, to date, find two anarchists of different 'streams' agree on the definition of anarchism. Some believe anarchism is the lack of a state. Some believe anarchism is an accountable state. A lot of anarchists I've met are reworded social democrats.
I can't really go against anarchism, because it is not one ideology. But let's see what my poll comes up with. I could be completely wrong.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by [email protected]
I'm trying to understand far-left-ness here.
Communists want the state to own everything. Socialism is a myth (as Americans think it is the same thing as communism, Israelis think it is the same thing as social democracy, Europeans, I don't even know - it's a buzzword, basically). (Apparently, all, need to wait for the poll to end to know for sure that) Anarchists believe democracy always means rule of majority over minority, and that this is bad (the badness here being irrelevant, I'm not talking about my own beliefs).
