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You dont understand, my centralized power structure is based on giving. It could never be commandeered by power hungry psychopaths and used for their own gain like the rest of the power structures around the globe.
If you "don't believe in power structures" you're not even a fucking anarchist, you're a child out here larping. Anarchism isn't "the abolition of all power structures" it's the abolition of unjust and arbitrary power structures. You literally cannot have a fucking functioning society without some form of hierarchy to it, there has to be some sort of decision making body whose decisions need some sort of enforcement structure. The whole fucking point to anarchism is ensuring that all is based on democratic participation and not "the bourgeoisie or nobility have all the power"
NATO "anarchists" out here acting like the Catalonian syndicalists just magically got shit done without having any officers elected to direct work
yeah thats not what marxists believe. you’re the one making bogus uneducated claims rofl
So either anarchism has no power structures, thus implicitly admitting that it is fundamentally incapable of bringing about the political change that it advocates for, or it has a power structure and thus it is liable to be commandeered by power hungry psychopaths and used for their own gain like the rest of the power structures around the globe.
Which way, western anarchist?
Anarchism is a network of smaller structures. Yes, a psychopath would be able to turn a tribe into a cult. However, the rest of the network would work a check on that psychopath's power. Better that than a psychopath turning a nation into a cult.
So we're talking about the platonic ideal of anarchism and not the examples of anarchism in the real world then?
The excuses some of y’all come up with for not doing anything never cease to amaze me, do you really think you can bring about revolutionary political change by just asking nicely? If actual anarchists were like you the ideology of anarchism would rightfully be taken about as seriously as Posadism
What is continuous revolution?
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there's no Mao-think emoji?!Marx stared at the turntable in wide-eyed amazement.
"Seventy-two revolutions per minute!?"
One of the tent-poles of Marxism is the idea that actions are driven by material conditions. It seems so obvious to me that the material conditions of a self-appointed vanguard class (regardless of their original intentions) will lead them to be tyrants. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" as they say.
We don't believe socialism to be pure of corruption, but that it's both more resistant to it and more effective in general at meeting the needs of the people. The problem isn't with power structures, but the mode of production and distribution, and the class character of the state. States run by the working classes as a consequence take better care of their people and those they rely on than capitalist ones do. Even the nordics, which are generally nice for their own population, rely on imperialism and foreign plunder to keep going, while socialist countries do not.