Oh, but you do support a government in tangible terms because you support the war the regime is fighting and the atrocities it commits against its people. The regime literally kidnaps people off the street and forces them into fighting. You’ve openly stated many times that you support continuation of the war and that you stand on the side of a openly fascist regime. That makes you a fascist.
Also, imagine being over the age of 13 and using terms like authoritarian. 🤡
The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile.
The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them.
What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today. Meanwhile, in so-called authoritarian regimes, the ruling party serves the working class as seen in countries like China, Cuba, or Vietnam. Hence why there is widespread public trust in these government and they enjoy broad support from the masses.
To add to that, the whole idea of state capitalism is a misnomer. It basically says that while you have state owned enterprise, the internal capitalist relations within it remain largely the same. While that’s true, there is a fundamental difference here. Capitalism is a system where people who own capital hire workers to exploit there labor with the purpose of increasing their capital. The goal of capitalist enterprise is to create wealth for the owners with any social benefits being strictly incidental. On the other hand, the purpose of state enterprise is to provide social value. Workers in state owned companies are producing things that the society needs. They are working for their own benefit and those of others around them. Therefore, the nature of work itself is fundamentally different from actual capitalism.
I guess I shouldn’t be expecting much from somebody who equates a socialist state where means of production are publicly owned with fascism.
Your arguments make it very clear that you were a lifestyle anarchist at best. Come back when you have engaged with anarchist texts a bit more, because I am not going to do it for you, nor do I have some copy-pasta ready to dump here.
Do you earnestly think insult is any way to motivate someone to revisit a body of theory they’ve already engaged with? In absence of any recommendation on your part, I have very little reason to revisit what I’ve come to disagree with, beyond making sure that my understanding is still correct and seeing if there’s anything useful for me.
What “anarchist power level” do I need in order to have a conversation with you? How do you go about gaining comrades if this is how you treat those asking for recommendations?
Nice, another vapid reply from our resident fascist troll. The reply wasn’t meant to convince you of anything since we all know exactly what you stand for. It’s to educate people on the misinformation you spread here and how to address it.
Yeah you, however in your case a good start would be needing to be able to read anything since you seem to be engaging and arguing with your eyes closed
Oh, but you do support a government in tangible terms because you support the war the regime is fighting and the atrocities it commits against its people. The regime literally kidnaps people off the street and forces them into fighting. You’ve openly stated many times that you support continuation of the war and that you stand on the side of a openly fascist regime. That makes you a fascist.
Also, imagine being over the age of 13 and using terms like authoritarian. 🤡
The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile.
The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them.
What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today. Meanwhile, in so-called authoritarian regimes, the ruling party serves the working class as seen in countries like China, Cuba, or Vietnam. Hence why there is widespread public trust in these government and they enjoy broad support from the masses.
To add to that, the whole idea of state capitalism is a misnomer. It basically says that while you have state owned enterprise, the internal capitalist relations within it remain largely the same. While that’s true, there is a fundamental difference here. Capitalism is a system where people who own capital hire workers to exploit there labor with the purpose of increasing their capital. The goal of capitalist enterprise is to create wealth for the owners with any social benefits being strictly incidental. On the other hand, the purpose of state enterprise is to provide social value. Workers in state owned companies are producing things that the society needs. They are working for their own benefit and those of others around them. Therefore, the nature of work itself is fundamentally different from actual capitalism.
I guess I shouldn’t be expecting much from somebody who equates a socialist state where means of production are publicly owned with fascism.
Nice, another copy-pasta fan-fiction from someone that needs to read more theory 😏
Do you have theory to suggest?
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Sometimes I think Lemmy needs reactions. Then I come to my senses.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/ is a good start.
I’ve read a fair bit from there, I used to be an anarchist many years ago. Do you have anything specific that’s relevant to the discussion here?
Your arguments make it very clear that you were a lifestyle anarchist at best. Come back when you have engaged with anarchist texts a bit more, because I am not going to do it for you, nor do I have some copy-pasta ready to dump here.
Do you earnestly think insult is any way to motivate someone to revisit a body of theory they’ve already engaged with? In absence of any recommendation on your part, I have very little reason to revisit what I’ve come to disagree with, beyond making sure that my understanding is still correct and seeing if there’s anything useful for me.
What “anarchist power level” do I need in order to have a conversation with you? How do you go about gaining comrades if this is how you treat those asking for recommendations?
Nice, another vapid reply from our resident fascist troll. The reply wasn’t meant to convince you of anything since we all know exactly what you stand for. It’s to educate people on the misinformation you spread here and how to address it.
You fool! Once again you have defeated yourself by exceeding my attention span!
Yeah you, however in your case a good start would be needing to be able to read anything since you seem to be engaging and arguing with your eyes closed