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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That doesn't sound consensus based or consent based at all, lol, you don't even have a democratically elected and instantly recallable committee to assign the work? Damn, anarchists are out here having more hierarchy in their political structure than the tankies.

Earnestly: while we live in a deeply stratified society, if you dont intentionally form power structures informal, incredibly undemocratic ones will fill that void, as is this case with what you're describing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If none exist while socialist projects exist, that suggests that the ideology is nonviable at large scales at this point in time. And "just waiting" while capitalism cripples the biosphere and kills millions is an expression of prioritizing your own perfectionism over preventing actual suffering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't that disagree with your ai generated notion of authority, if someone is appointed to facilitate it through a democratic mechanism?

Wait, do they not do that at anarchist meetings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (21 children)

Do you not also disagree with those tactics, given how spectacularly they've failed to amount to anything material?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (23 children)

I feel like they probably shouldn't have done those things then, if they weren't able to sustain themselves in the face of that sort of state repression like communists could.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (16 children)

i’m not saying i have a good plan. i’m saying i am suspicious of any plan that concentrates power, and i believe my suspicion is warranted.

I mean, look up the life expectancy of China vs India over time. Place your suspicion against the facts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (25 children)

That's incredibly unspecific, repression is one of the main things states do and is a broad category.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Because that gives you generous wiggle room.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Okay, containing more than 100, 000 people, that work for you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (27 children)

Okay, and why haven't they succeeded yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay, you need to actually define authority, because I feel like each anarchist I've encountered has a different definition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I dont exist in structures where the meeting facilitator has that much of an impact to the point that the meeting would be derailed by a shitty one, but I guess that's a difference between the ways our ideologies organize.

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