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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

Agreed, I've often heard ppl critisize anarchists by saying they don't want power, they want to endlessly critque power, but I see that as the best quality in the movement. I see anarchism as societies immune system against tyranny, a permanent opposition party against the corruption in the state.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah thats always the awkard thing about talking about the Soviets, they did a lot of genuinely incredible things but they killed so many ppl in the process. I simultaneously hate the soviet union and wish they were still around. They sure beat putin's russia thats for sure.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

That state would be so much better then the ones we have now but it would still be the state so you might as well build it intentionally. Despite that I still think anarchism as a movement have a use as a watchdog against power.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

I know that this is a little speculative but I do think any anarchist project is doomed to fail but not in the crash and burn like the soviet union/nazi germany way. More that any anarchist commune would eventually reinvent the state in response to major crises.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

I'm willing to give it a try, though tbh Ive never really used discord before so it'll take getting use too. Also while I am a statist I have read anarchist work and do agree with alot of it but I feel the world is too complex for anarchism to work anymore and so you need to delegate things. 1/2

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

Well ok the nazis probably killed more communists then stalin but thats more because they were kill literally everyone. Being less destructive then the nazis is about a high a bar as being less destructive then a zombie apocalypse.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah when I say radical statists I basically mean tankies. The sorta leftists who will defend the police states of 20th century communist dictatorships. Tbh I think stalin and mao probably killed more communists then the anti communists with their purges and power struggles.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah my ideology is basically social democracy but all businesses should be worker co ops, when I was your age I was more an authortarian leftist but the last decade of politics made me much more skeptical about the state.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 15h

Weirdly enough despite being a statist I think I'm more fond of radical anarchists then I am of radical statists because the radical statists come across as far more likely to put me up against the wall if they were in charge.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 16h

I think my litmus test for who I count as an ally is the question: Would this person try to kill me after the revolution? Like I think leftist infighting is inevitable due to our differences but I'm fine with that if we fight each other with ballots instead of bullets.

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Aloden @aloden1.bsky.social · 2d

I actually do genuinely wish that germany had gone all in on the wunderwaffe because not only would have millions of lives been saved from the war ending sooner but it would have made some badass setpieces for writers to use. Could you imagine a cod level where you have to destroy the ratte tank?

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