thats the post

  • SimMs [none/use name]
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    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

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                the state & legitimizing authority is simply the state... it's like the firmament fixed & eternal

                labor is rehabilitating for capitalists who never did labor before, that's the point. it's not about punishment, it's about serving the community & removing class distinctions... i didn't say they would toil endlessly without reprieve

                it's not illegal to criticize the government, it's illegal to incite violence against the larger community

                the state protects workers from the market in the ideal social democratic model.

                the state oppresses the exploiters in the ideal socialist model