this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
211 points (91.1% liked)
Anarchism
2629 readers
377 users here now
Discuss anarchist praxis and philosophy. Don't take yourselves too seriously.
Other anarchist comms
- !anarchism@slrpnk.net
- !anarchism@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !anarchism@hexbear.net
- !anarchism@lemmy.ml
- !anarchism101@lemmy.ca
- !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Join the matrix room for some real-time discussion.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Tell me that you have no clue what the word "theory" means without telling me.
Good lord, don't they teach this stuff in highschool?
No.
What you are thinking of is indoctrination and no, they didn't do that in my highschool.
Instead they taught us about how different theories exist and how each is valid until it is not.
The school you went to should be investigated if it's cranking out weapons-grade morons like you.
I think what chloroken is getting at is "the key word here is 'theory'" sounds like a dismissal in the same vein as "evolution is just a theory." The sense of 'theory' in both "evolutionary theory" and "leftist theory" is the same, and in both cases it's distinct from the colloquial sense. It means "body of conceptual academic work," not "hypothetical belief." In neither case does it imply dogmatism.
"Every state is authoritarian" is a pretty non-controversial claim in leftist political theory of any stripe. Comrade's point was "China is authoritarian" is a non-sequitur from any leftist perspective, because China is a state so of course it is. Anarchist and ML theorists are going to disagree on the implications of that basic observation.
Bingo.
And is also avoiding to say that China and Russia are basically dictatorships, but with extra steps.
Like, as I said, saying all people are bad would be a way to avoid saying that Nazis are bad, but with extra steps.
It's also similar to far righters when asked if they are antifascists and they answer that they are antifascists and anticommunists.
Just different shapes of delusion.
How would you respond if someone criticized Revolutionary Catalonia because marriage/religion/domestic violence still existed inside of it?