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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How are the people who work for the state socialist in practice? They work for a capitalist state.

Also are you claiming the state(as in the government and associated entities) is distinct from the employees that make up the state government? How?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Anti-intellectualism at its finest folks

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (22 children)

We literally didn't have borders as they exist today until a century ago lmao, they literally solidified around the formation of what we consider modern nation-states.

The human os isn't ready for a borderless world my entire ass, the issue is the systems currently in place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean soviet states fixed that by giving better amenities, lower hours, or earlier retirement to people working harder or more unpleasant jobs.

Do plumbers currently have better amenities, lower hours, or earlier retirement than capitalists who do literally nothing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Youre comparing making monarchists and nazi POWs (and due to corruption other folks getting caught up in that) work to repair the soviet union to making slaves out of drug addicts in the United States and somehow thinking the former is worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Cali state govt is socialist as fuck

Wait Californians democratically own and manage the means of production? Holy shit.

Oh you mean a liberal state that has slightly higher taxes :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Humans are shaped by their material conditions

Also if humans were naturally greedy it would make sense for 99 percent of humanity to overthrow the 1 percent and distribute the benefits of society more equally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Hey wait a second why isn't the state enforcing my property relations for free? The peasants aren't paying rent, someone shoot them!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To add a disclaimer, I am specifically talking about the largest and more stable projects, anarchosyndicalism during the Spanish civil war and the free ukrainian state during the Russian Revolution

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Bwahahaha

Oh the leading with the arrogsnce and hoping it makes up for the lack of historical analysis really is cute.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean are you looking for theory or actual anarchist practice?

Because in practice the best anarchism has done is war communism but less organized, less democratic, and less efficient than the communists, and the worst they've done is basically a military dictatorship that accidentally empowered kulaks to do pogroms, and if you ask modern anarchists the takeaways from these programs and what to do better in the future, 9/10 times(being generous) they'll just repeat a "stabbed in the back by tankies" narrative which shows they really haven't learned from their history.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Okay, so why would the US care? If it can get away with genocide surely it can just support an ally doing a genocide and get away with it.

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