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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

And if inevitably the projects reach outside of the commune line into another commune line, how would the intercommunal council be called lol. At what point do you just have a state without calling it a state?

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

You can call a federation of communes a "state" if you want. Anarchists are not against this kind of "state". As long as power flows bottom-up by delegation and recall.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds a lot like democratic centralism.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The "delegation and recall" part of it? Totally! The "vanguard party" and "DotP" parts? Not so much.

[–] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lol then I'll ask the age old question of how do you expect to protect your revolution with no vanguard or DoTP? How do you stop the systemic issue of racism without an actual system to suppress it? That was the chief reason as to why I thought anarchism was silly.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

how do you expect to protect your revolution with no vanguard or DoTP?

This is literally what I wrote in my first comment:

My disagreement with anarchism is different: I think only a state with a strong coercive apparatus can survive sustained imperial pressure and capitalist encirclement.

[–] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 36 minutes ago

Why not just be an ML at that point, you're already like 75% there lmao

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

sorry i'm not good at telling tone and maybe i'm just not smart and not proficient at theory but is this not like the soviet system

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Early Soviets maybe, before war communism, for like less than a year... There was a reason anarchists tried to assassinate Lenin as a counterrevolutionary.

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

mmm yeah thats true but either way the idea of from the bottom going to top governance is something characteristic of most AES innit? genuine question

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 hours ago