My basic understanding is that Labour is what the Online Left think the Democratic Party is.

It'd be a disturbing irony if they did act that way given the involvement of gangsters in the Shanghai massacre of communists at the beginning of this long conflict.

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I'd be interested to see your sourcing for why the change occured

good pick with the three tier fruit basket

wow this man's very serious opinions are quite reactionary. I can't believe the anti AI crowd is like this

It also carries with it its own tyranny. The village has never exactly been a good place for social deviance. Informal justice can be more cruel than that of the state. You see it when the state steps aside to let others take the reigns of violence, and it rarely is a pretty sight

Housing and working communes are great but it doesn't cover the basic problem of governance of an urban area: anonymity.

In an urban area, one sees more people in a day walking on the street than might live in a village. The informal social pressures of a commune don't work well among strangers

They show rather effectively how anarchism can work with a people who want to engage with it and that live in small communities where informal social control can work.

I think it is a good system for subsistence farmers and isolated rural communities. I am doubtful about it for other situations

Roman philosopher ass take

Rojava has private property, police, and a state with a lot of militarization and some seemingly credible human rights concerns. They are libertarian socialists. They were solid American allies against fundamentalist reactionaries before the perfidy of Trump betrayed them to the Turkish forces.

I have seen a good bit on it but I know much more about the similarly structured Zapatistas (took a class on the history of Maya resistance). I think that it is a great system for areas of the greatest poverty and exploitation. I would note that neither describes themselves as anarchist

American socialism, in practice, is social democratic. I say that not as an insult. American socialists at the municipal level have done great things for their country. May Mamdani be a second coming of sewer socialism!

The attack on the temple came from the group of Red Guards she was traveling with not orders from above. It was similar when her group beat a man to death in Guangzhou, or when she watched them stone one of their teachers in Beijing. The idea came from above but the practice was decentralized

I am similarly anti conservative and anti traditional, but I think the problems of the cultural revolution were deeper rooted than authoritarianism.

The description of the terror of the Cultural Revolution, as told by Yang (one of its perpetrators), was actually incredibly decentralized

A Taoist believing in a cultural revolution is kinda funny. I get that you likely don't mean it in that way.

I just read the section of Spider Eaters by Rae Yang where she describes of being a part of a group of Red Guards that beat Taoist monks earlier. Something to consider

Capitalists must be protected from themselves