feel free to remove if it's too low quality. Just wanted to post somewhere nice for a change.
No you weren't. At least not in my opinion. I was just continuing the thought not refuting anything you said.
You think the election posts were low quality? I was going more of a clean minimalist vibe instead. Got any tips?
If you never open your mouth they'll never know who you are. Who knows, you might become friends.
It's my opinion that these viewpoints aren't applicable in reality. That's still not a fact. I might have put it a bit more dramatically but In the end it's still just my opinion. I state it in the hopes that someone will come along and say "no. they are applicable and here's why". That does not sound like denying to me.
Also even if I am denying the viewpoints I have no problem with that. They are archic viewpoints. They have very little consequence and are, in my opinion, outdated and primitive. We can do better.
That's why I didn't respond to everything. I responded to the thing I had a response to.
I guess you could see it that way. Just the "opinion rather than relevancy" sounds so appropriate to the downvote topic that I assumed it was that.
If you want I'll remove it.
I thought about making a post with that quote but decided against it. Feel free to make one yourself. This community is in need of someone else to contribute as well.
It's a different lie. Fascists lie by claiming that their people are tho one true people who deserve everything. Communists lie by telling that they'll reach a better world. But the structure of society is the same. Do as I say or die.
Trump will challenge the integrity of the election and try to declare he is the winner in more places.
That. He will do that. No matter what happens, unless he wins, he WILL do that. At this point the only question is who the military and rest of the state apparatus will follow. And I agree this may well be the last election. But that will be the case no matter who you vote for. How this will end is dependent on the military leaders not the civilians.
That's an opinion. Not a fact. you can tell because right before you start the quote I said "in my opinion".
Also I'm not limiting the chart. The sectors are shown. I do accept that these ideas exist. I just don't agree with them and wanted to discuss them. That's why I included them in the image.
Hopefully now with less downvotes.
Oops. I made it in a hurry so I used Kamala instead of Harris. Just now noticed. Is it worth a reupload?
Hares another thought I had.
We all know the political compass. The simple way to map all of politics in just two axis on a 2d plain. Reducing the fascinating complexity of society to just four sectors. With such unhelpful labels as "left" and "right". Here's my version. The "left-right" axis is replaced with class authority and "lib-auth" with state authority. Now If any lib-rights want to argue with me about the label I'm happy to do so.
The other thing I want to note is that, in my opinion, the lib-right and auth-left sectors are impossible. They represent ideas that do not match reality. because authority creates authority. By mapping class and state authority separately you can see that if you somehow manage to eliminate one but champion the other, the remaining will just form the other. Either by state bureaucrats becoming the privileged class, or the companies creating private militias and becoming states in all but name. That is what the black arrows represent: the tendency to move to a stable balance between the two authorities.
I have a theory. (technically I have many but today I'm talking about this one.) Well actually it's more of a visualization. As an anarchist I have spend a lot of time pondering on anarchist society and it's relation to the archic one. This pondering led me to this scale. The Chaos-Order scale. It position political systems on a single point depending on the amount of chaos a society deems acceptable.
I decided to divide the scale into 4 sections. There could be more but i wanted clearly defined borders between them.
- Total chaos
- Anarchy
- Democracy
- Authoritarianism (Authy)
These sections are defined by clear boundaries (marked with #):
- The minimum required order for society
- Anarchy-Democracy border
- Democracy-Authorotarianism border
The arrows signify how every section can be entered.
It should be noted that anarchy and total chaos are separated by an impassable border. #1 The minimum order for society. This is because total chaos can only exists for a moment between archic systems collapsing and the formation of an extremely authoritarian society (The rule of violence). True anarchic systems should be immune to this collapse as it requires the complete breakdown of the social bonds between people.
The second border is the anarchy-democracy border. This border is defined by having any form of hierarchical society. It is passed when an anarchist revolutionary class takes control of the entire functioning of society or when an anarchic society collapses back into archy.
The third is the democracy-authy border. This is defined by having some form of democratic control over society. Essentially free elections. Most people should already be familiar with the concept.
The political compass is an incredible simple tool and as such it's usage is limited, but I think this might be a useful/interesting way to visualize/relabel it.
Transcription
A political compass with the Y axis labeled "State Authority" moving up and X axis labeled "Class Authority" moving right.
Transcription: White text on black background with the anarchist logo at the top reading "True freedom begins when everyone starts listening to everyone else". At the bottom left corner is a signature "ee/u/val".
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Anarchists should get their ideas implemented outside of the state. Build collective structures that exists separately from the state. Start from the ground up. Collectivize some farms. Then get some logistic collectives. Then start up collective food courts in a couple of cities. All functioning in a federation. Create a completely collective food distribution chain. Then start expanding it. No state needed.