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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlLemmy libs never can 😁
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    15 days ago

    Not a historian, but from the top of my head: driving back Germany from having too much power in Europe, assisting the British allies and/or preventing the soviets from conquering too much of Germany and turning it “socialist”.

    Do you think the US entered a war, because Hitler was a bad guy? O.o


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    15 days ago

    No, I did not.

    Why bring him up, then? Does your assessment of anark have anything to do with the definition? Would you have deduced that this definition must come from a person, which insert your false assumptions about Anark here?

    Saying someone is a phrase-monger with a poor understanding of Marxism is not slander when it’s true.

    Ok. It’s not true, though.

    If someone’s categories erase class content, state form, property relations, imperialism, and the dictatorship of the proletariat, then their understanding of Marxism is directly relevant to the discussion.

    Anark’s work erases none of those things.

    Calling that “slander” is just a way to avoid answering the critique.

    Correctly classyfying it as slander is a protection against Brandolini’s law.

    Leninism is not a correct logical development of marxism. His theory of the bourgeois state as an agent of the bourgeoisie is blatantly incorrect.

    Your Lenin quotes, where he dismisses anarchist collectivism is another example of how he had some serious bullshit takes.

    Name one animal where a hierarchy exists that starves other members of their species from the things they require to live. Name one animal where the hierarchies persist in a form after the individual at the top dies. Name one animal where the upper rungs of the hierarchies can punish the lower ones.

    Is your doctor your boss? Can they take away your liver as punishment? Do parents regularly enact their position to starve their children? Is it a healthy parent-child relationship when the parent continuosly takes away the child’s decision making power?

    You don’t understand the anarchist definition of hierarchy. That’s a prerequisite to be able to understand any anarchist position. You’re like an intelligent designer arguing against mitosis.

    neither is the same thing as a workers’ state suppressing counter-revolution.

    Explain how workers defending against counter-revolution is authoritarian, according to the above definition.

    You continuously conflate the party with the workers. That’s the same BS as conflating the Ukranian people with the Selensky regime (or “government”, if you prefer the less loaded term).

    Your formulation exposes exactly the individualist petty-bourgeois premise you just spent paragraphs denying. You treat socialism as if it should mean each worker or each workplace immediately pockets its own product.

    No, in socialism, every worker should have a say in how the surplus value (or the MOP, or whatever) is employed, in addition with the consumers, ideally in decentralized soviets.



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    15 days ago

    Vacous redefinition of the term that vacates it of all it’s explanatory power.

    Definitions aren’t used to explain things on their own. They need to be combined with reasoning to explain anything.

    What’s your definition? Do you have a better one? Ideally one, without any (moral) judgement baked in.

    A definition of capitalism that includes no mention of class or class power is meaningless.

    Again with the motivated reasoning. Also, the class structure can be deduced from the definition without explicitly stating it.

    Not moralist to ask for proof of the imperialist power doing imperialism.

    Now you conflate imperialism with something that needs victims. My definition doesn’t require any definition of victims. You can disagree, but you’d need to supply a definition that is better suited to describe the world.

    You genuinely become more of a parody of the western “anarchist” with every post.

    Insulting me doesn’t make your arguments any more coherent.