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Coronis

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Ungrumpy Corvid. Nonbinary He/They/Xe. 41. Old school polyamorous. Unironic Libertarian Socialist (Voush Bad). Florida -_- PFP by @holboldoart.bsky.social

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Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · Aug 27

The only way to build socialism is to build socialism. You can't build something completely different and then have it magically "transition" into socialism later. Literally nothing in all of history has ever worked that way.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 9h

Good. Fleece all these motherfuckers. Their lives should be one long chain of rug pulls until they wish there was still a social safety net.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

A pro-MAGA website that urged supporters to fund a database unmasking Charlie Kirk critics took tens of thousands in crypto—then vanished, infuriating donors.

MAGA Site Took Money to Unmask Charlie Kirk Critics—Then Vanished

Trumpy donors say the pro-Kirk “exposure” project took tens of thousands before going dark.

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

every transition timeline looks like this

jude from 6teen he's like a stoner looking dude

gwen total drama she's a goth with blue hair

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 1d

Max Dubler
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That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.
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True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

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Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

The social contract usually emerges semi-organically and is not explicit, but it can also be created consciously as part of a mass political project. A successful revolution creates stability by successfully advocating for its vision of the new social contract.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

But merely talking to someone doesn't mean anything. At all. That's not how power works.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Ok? If they don't have access to meaningful political power, if they can't affect change in their immediate workplaces and communities without approval from someone else holding a gun, then it isn't socialism and I'm not interested.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in the world who lives under the State is oppressed. Your just arguing that one state is good and another is bad when they are interchangeable.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

You talk as if it's impossible to fight a war without dictatorial control by a centralized cadre when this is not at all true.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Did the Chinese working class tell you that?

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Because I'm working long hours for low wages at a privately owned, for-profit facility, and the official government-sponsored union is only pretending to listen to me.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

"You don't understand, if we DON'T strip you of all decision making power in your workplace then the United States wins!"

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

So what happens if I try to organize an independent union in China, truly separate from party control? What happens to me?

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

My analysis is based on libertarian socialist analysis of what power is and how it functions. These projects aren't socialist because of scary problems printed in US media but because the fundamental structure of their political systems deliberately separates workers from actual power.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

People say all kinds of things in their autobiographies. That's the beauty of the format. You can say whatever you want.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

That's the same thing, or near enough.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing about the alleged "socialist economies" is socialist though.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

The Cuban model works better precisely because it's less fully Leninist than other "socialist" projects

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

The difference is that the person doing the voting is a different person than you, whose interests may overlap with yours somewhat but are definitely not the same. Every political layer you add creates further separation of interests.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

To be engaged in direct political participation, yes those numbers are low.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

It's called an autonomous democratic union.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm tired. I learned anarchist theory nearly 20 years ago and what seems obvious and intuitive to me, the fundamental nature of the State, is apparently not so for others. I'm going to have to brush up before I put together a longer thread explaining everything.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

I believe in workers directly controlling the means of production.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Explain to me how I'm wrong.

Coronis @coronis.bsky.social · 1d

Why would you need to defend your revolution against actual socialism? If you cared about creating socialism and not your cult of power then you wouldn't need to. This is what I have been saying. We are different movements in direct opposition. I am a socialist and you are not.