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For additional context; what/which revolution(s) are you thinking about that aspired to be the most structureless but became as oppressive as the most tyrannica
by jahaja 13y ago
For additional context; what/which revolution(s) are you thinking about that aspired to be the most structureless but became as oppressive as the most tyrannical ones?
- pron 13y agoPretty much all the communist ones; the French; counterculture (see the linked article as well as Adam Curtis's documentaries)
- watwut 13y agoCommunists never aspired to be structureless, definitely not in the short term. Even utopia they promised in long term had element of forced conformity with system aka oppression. Path towards that utopia was supposed to go through strong party discipline and obeisance. That is how communist party survived oppression in Russia. It was not supposed to be "free" or "structureless" in any current meaning of the word. I now much less about French revolution, but what I know suggests it was very complicated event. Describing it as simple attempt to move towards structureless society is simplifying it too much.
- jahaja 13y agoI have to agree with watwut. This is a bit unnuanced and oversimplifying things.