thats the post

  • SimMs [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    personal experience with bullying should not colour one's analysis of authority in left structures

          • SimMs [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            dont buy it. that experience is so unfathomably narrow in comparison to the questions we try to resolve

              • SimMs [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                one could call this childish idealism that is diametrically opposed to the material dialectical analyses that marxists like.. well, liebknecht, used to apply.

                  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    likewise

                    people use "authoritarianism" as a scare tactic & ham-fisted way to shut down debate... not as a worthy criticism.

                    if former capitalists & their toadies have to serve jail time & do hard labor for exploiting & oppressing workers, then this isn't "authoritarianism", no more than the reality of wage compulsion is "authoritarian"

                    in fact, it's much less authoritarian and is actually ethically justified because of the nature of wage relations in the old system

                    workers will have to continue class struggle, it's a struggle afterall and not a PMC board meeting or personal grievance airing