TotalCrackpot

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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Sure, but there are statists who dismiss libertarian leftism outright and there are ones who travel to fight for libertarian leftist project. Orwell was the second type clearly judging by his actions.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
You can read about Zapatistas, who ideologically are the closest to anarchist territory in practice. They have quite a bit higher standard of living then the rest of Chiapas, so it seems the experiment is successful. A lot of people don&#x2
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Where are these discussions? I'm an anarchist and could give anarchist lens to wherever is such a discussion happening.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Orwell wasn't a trotskyist, but democratic socialist. He probably leaned libertarian in his socialism, cause he admitted that he should join anarchist side and not POUM, which was some coalition of trotskyist and libertarian Marxists.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Orwell was actually fighting FOR communism. Specifically anarcho-communist Catalonia. What you call Communism is actually ideology called Marxism-Leninism, there are libertarian variants of communists too, for example anarcho-communism or c
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
I'm an anarchist, but you can read on for example council communism, which too is a libertarian socialism, it's Marxist and it is against Marxism-Leninism.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
There is a bunch of examples of extremely influential theories that were dismisses because of authority figures, I don't know if you count math as science, but for example set theory was extremely controversial.
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Your Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise of Anarchism(humaniterations.net)
2 points by TotalCrackpot 3y ago|1 comments
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
I will help you - what happens when you break the law you didn't agree to? The government uses aggression to punish you.
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Your Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise of Anarchism(humaniterations.net)
3 points by TotalCrackpot 3y ago|5 comments
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Elaborate on this please, after all even in "autocratic" corporations we have internal power struggles etc. So are they democratic too? Suddenly everything is like democracy?
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
> The autocracy of a top-down corporate structure is more effective than a democratic collective. If that was the case then Soviet Union's central planning would be more efficient than Liberal democracy's market capitalism. The
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Why they don't organize, do a mass protest and get better treatment from the system?
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
If something drastically changes with climate change then maybe you are right, if not then life expectancy will fall.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Do you have a mortgage on the house or is it actually yours?
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Imagine that students used to be very active in various grassroot political movements, and these days they cannot organize themselves to do some huge protest, stall every university lesson, not grade papers and finally get some huge reforms
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
I have bachelors degree in math. Basic algebra is useful, however it is thought very badly. There is a lot of rote memorization, which is not useful for university level math. Precalculus is trash, mindless computations and solving a lot of
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Remember tongue map? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map , I had this at school told in authoritative manner even though it is complete bullshit. A lot of history lessons are just state propaganda, for example,
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
There is one very simple reason. Fuck authoritarianism, especially when education is mandatory. Consider that a lot of people have public schooling with atrocious quality that is quite frankly quite useless, because it is mostly nationalist
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Ok, I agree with that. I think there should be more effort put towards infrastructure for people with disabilities too.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Industrial society is coercive towards people that want to live more primitive life than one deem normal, that's essentially main thesis of anarcho-primitivists. Still, I don't think Luddites should ban for other people their tech
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
I fact-checked a lot of wrong information that my teachers were spewing by using the smartphone, I think this ban is bad. This should be a choice. These days even reading books can be more comfortable on a screen, and it is easier to have b
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
Blindsight is lit! Great novel.
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Bullshit Jobs (2018)(theanarchistlibrary.org)
441 points by TotalCrackpot 3y ago|391 comments
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
I can't agree, sure early employees have some stock (still usually muuuuuuuuuuuch less than founders) but a lot of the time there is a specific class of decision-makers/owners. Workers in big companies like Google get stock that t
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
You can try creating a worker cooperative, then you are an owner, but you don't exploit anyone.
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
You may be interested in reading Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, he wrote about that: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullsh...
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by TotalCrackpot 3y ago
This system tries to put into your head that you either are exploited (worker) or are the exploiter (owner), while we could try to arrange our society in a more cooperative way, e.g. with worker cooperatives. Unfortunately the whole system
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by TotalCrackpot 6y ago
I too had sleep paralysis, 3 times upon waking up and 2 while trying to fall asleep. Moreover 3 days ago I had my first hypnagogic auditory hallucination. Basically I have heard a guy talking something about two candidates for US presidency