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Why We Need [Eco]Socialism (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism (2022)
Max Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal (2021)
Red Nation, The Red Deal (2021)

“Imagine a world where you don’t feel forced to go to your job just to put food on the table, where climate collapse isn’t driving every global disaster. A world where decisions about what products get made, what public goods are free and accessible, are made by everyday people, not by CEOs and board members. A world where community and chosen family are just a bike ride, a high-speed train, or a quick walk away.”

“The goal of oppressors is to limit your imagination about what is possible without them, so you might never imagine more for yourself and the world you live in.”

—Ashley C. Ford

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uh, yeah, I know.

I don't accept any of the flavours of anarchism that don't look after vulnerable members of society.

What about that was unclear?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I do apologize. Obviously when you ignore the parts of anarchism, which are not socialist, then all of anarchism is socialist. I overread it and should have known better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

AnCap is an oxymoron.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

ancap is American chuuni – 14 year olds being edgy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Okay, I don't want to antagonise you unnecessarily. My snarky tone was because it sounded like you were promoting an ancap ideology, but your profile tells me I was wrong about that. Personally if I bring up any ideology that I consider harmful like ancap, I am very careful to frame it as something I disagree with.

It does seem like you're saying that I'm making a truism, like I've constrained my definition of anarchism artificially so that it excludes certain kinds. If that's what you're saying, I don't think that's true. I think the concept of ancapism is based on the notion that anarchy means "no rules", which is not true. Anarchy means "no rulers", which is a very, very different thing. If an ideology is indifferent to the emergence of quasi feudal states and warlords, as ancapism is, then it fails on the first test of even ideologically opposing the one thing anarchism is against.

Here's a very good writeup on how even Murray Rothbard, the originator of right-"libertarianism" or "anarcho"-capitalism concluded that his ideas were not anarchist: https://www.anarchistfaq.org/afaq/blog/rothbard-not-anarchists.html