Not to mention lemmygrad.ml, which we’ll hopefully eventually federate with.
Whereas up until this point, anarchists were stuck with Raddle.
Anarchism is a great way to cut through the red scare shit so prevalent in the US. It's the perfect foil for the popular notion that communism = totalitarianism/authoritarianism.
Edit: if anarchist is too edgy for whoever you're talking to just call yourself a 'libertarian socialist', they'll have to look it up and it will confuse them and the best time to teach someone is when they're confused.
Pretty much, as I said in another thread the most effective thing we can do here in the Imperial core is work to dismantle the power structures that impede international socialist movements.
Oh don't get me wrong I'd hop on that vanguard party in a fucking heartbeat, I just think it's far more likely we will see the collapse of those institutions and balkanization before we see any sort of revolutionary movement that seizes control of those levers.
Basically shit sucks yo.
See OP this here's yer left unity.
Yeah even if some sort of revolutionary movement was successful I feel like the initial result would be the same, with the federal government losing legitimacy we still have state governments that are just as shit to contend with. Basically the US is so compartmentalized it would be hard for any revolutionary movement to sweep the whole country at once.
Hey, I saw your comment when this post was made and put Desert on my to-read list. I finally read it all last night and holy shit, I think it's going to be extremely influential in informing my own views and approaches to the future. I likely will still be in favor of at least attempts at democratic centralism alongside the decentralization/self-sufficiency espoused by anarchists, but this has changed the exact nature of those aspirations and it's tempered my dreams of a global proletarian revolution with some pragmatism (at least I hope). I also think there is a strong argument for left unity/solidarity in the face of ecological collapse and the subsequent collapse of the transformative/utopian predictions most of our Sects make. Idk just wanted to say thanks for recommending this and I'd be super interested in other readings you'd recommend (I've only really read a little bit of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Bookchin on the anarchist side of theory)
Thanks sm I'm excited to check all these out (especially interested in Blessed is the Flame I think imma do that first) and I'll try to shoot the shit sometime! I also feel like I'm going to dive into the fiction on there; I've definitely had a hankering to write some shit after finishing reading last night and wanna see what others have written
I’m not sure our institutions even could be properly redeemed given many of them were designed to further the goals of imperialism and exploit other countries.
That's pretty much my take and why I'm of the total reset mentality. Everyone's all scared that some other super power would swoop in and take control of the US but that's magical thinking. We're the most/best armed civilian population on the planet. Foreign occupation of the US is just not possible.
True but most of what we rely on from China is labor that could be done by people currently working in bullshit jobs that don't produce actual material value here in the US. My favorite example is all those tanks we just paid for that the pentagon doesn't even want. There's a massive untapped labor force in the US that just needs the corporate rug ripped out from under them.
Yep, it's a massive make-work program that is only supported because the people that represent the constituencies that rely on those jobs can't imagine any alternative.
Not to mention shit like the F35 project
What would Socialism with American characteristics look like, btw? I've thought about this in the back of my brain for a bit and I don't know what form it'd take. I thought about making it a post somewhere on this site, but where?
Uh, hey Beatnik, hello? I'm here for that all day. It'll be pretty meme-y I bet, but Posadism as a sort of Communist futurology is pretty cool, and it allows talks of theory on the premise of what can be, with the correct material conditions. Planning for the instabilities of the future.
We can also keep the Monteirists, the Anarcho-Transhumanists, the Hive Mind communalists and of course we will welcome our less language developed and tech deprived comrades, AnPrims and Monke.
Hello, yes we are wondering when can have more channel for Posadas?!?!?
There is no 'anti-communist' Left, just liberals with x aesthetic.
Also, Note that user was banned for Wrecking and Jacketing a member of Chapo.chat. So anyone trying to rattle up MLs with this shit is probably just John Kerry. UPVOTE PLS.
i think the anarchism and ML community should be forced into one single channel. that way the annoying flame wars are consolidated into one place i can ignore
MLs have the worst sense of humor confirmed? lol
IMO these specific tendency channels are silly and divisive. We should all just be one big pot like on reddit. Trying to replicate this is trying to replicate discord toxicity and cliques IMO. But whatever. The only good exceptions would be a bread making community, maybe an animal posting community, stuff like that.
Anyways ML's already have an awesome community including an MTC sub-community, an FC sub-community, etc on another website built using this platform.
