lugal

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's not fine. The climate crisis is real and we solve it by taxing the poor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

True. I think that's something most Marxists and anarchists can agree on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Wonna know what really helps again poverty?

Real estate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for addressing at least some of the points I was making. If you prefere to read, you should check out "Debt" by David Graeber and "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Or shorter essays by Graeber you can find in the anarchist library

And obviously we will never know what would have happened if the USSR didn't destroy Makhnovshchina in Ukraine or the anarchosyndicalists in Spain. But reading your comments I see why they did... and the future of Rojava is still open. Let's see. And obviously anarchists never build a state, that's in the name...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Because all syndicalists are evil. Do you really believe this statist propaganda?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The video has some. Maybe most best known is the CNT which was a network of free association. A modern example would be Rojava which is not democratic centralism but democratic confederation and therefor decentralized. Of cause, all these are suppressed by all states and therefore it is difficult to implement. Arguably, quite a lot of (but by far not all) organizations before modernity were hieracy free and some still are. the famous anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber once said that anthropologists have a affinity to anarchism because they know it works. He himself did research in Madagascar where, according to him, the state does very little in the rural areas. You should read his work or watch this interview from arround 2005.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm German myself and I consider myself a central European and a western European alike. If I had to choose I'd go with central European.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Decentralized can still mean that there is a big system of councils. The difference is that these are bottom up organized. If there is a consensus to build something big, there will be a way to make it. Maybe a committee that's only for this specific task and will dissolve afterwards and can be desolved by the council earlier.

Zoe Baker made a good video about anarchism and democracy. You should check it out. It's also about decision making in big scales within the anarchist tradition.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

The concept of mutual aid laid out by Kropotkin is very much applicable to international relations. Many anarchist organizations are internationalist, eg indigenous struggles supported the German occupation of Lützerath. True, this isn't about the infrastructure needed but anarchism isn't isolationist

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't even see the problem. If workers collectively come to consensus about the design, what hinders them from agreeing on a schedule and working on it?

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