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  • kool_newt@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What should I use instead? And what other ways should I differentiate myself, an anarcho-communist, from other leftists who want to use state power to get their way? Is that not authoritarian?

    There may be dumb people making dumb memes about it, but I haven’t seen anything that makes more sense. If you can point me to something better I’d appreciate it.

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        1 year ago

        Chain link fences are useless. See I can spout random statements that sound like facts too.

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          michael-laugh the political compass was invented solely to make “right libertarianism” look like a real ideology. It was pushed by billionaire money into schools to rot peoples brains. Its not real and provides no insight, it only furthers political illiteracy in the US. Its not a random statement, its a bullshit concept

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              Your buying into the central assumption that their is such a thing as authoritarianism. All governments are authoritarian its a meaningless distiction in political economy.

              Right libertarianism is a bullshit ideology, because its just liberalism.

              The system that works better is just reality. Understanding that political economy is a single entity not separate axis

                • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                  Libertarianism is about maximizing autonomy and reducing or eliminating state power. The reasons why one might want those things, and the methods used to attain and maintain them make a distinction between left and right libertarianism.

                  This is exactly my problem with the political compass and why i said it was bullshit to start with. You are defining libertarianism as an ideology that can only be described by the political compass. Methods and distictions that are only meaningful if you sunder the concept of political economy. That’s why i said its only purpose is to make “right libertarianism” seem like a real ideology when its just liberalism

                  • kool_newt@lemm.ee
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                    1 year ago

                    “You’re defining speed as something that can only be described by a speedometer” I can spew nonsense too.

                  • kool_newt@lemm.ee
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                    1 year ago

                    I’ve read this, I just think it’s wrong. Marx isn’t a god, he not everything he said is unquestionable truth.

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          Just to point out how bullshit it is.

          There was a thread maybe a month back where we all took the test and everyone is “left libertarian,” because the entire design of this thing is ridiculous.

              • kool_newt@lemm.ee
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                1 year ago

                Ok, please tell me the problems you have with the political compass disregarding the website and questions. If it’s so flawed, you should easily be able to point them out right?

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                  I already have told you. Political economy is one thing not two separate axis. Promoting the opposite is promoting political illiteracy, which is the “tools” whole point. Its not educating its obfuscating.

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                    1 year ago

                    I’d say your obfuscating by conflating politics and economics. Sure they are closely related and thus the X,Y graph, but they are not the same. Neither of us is the arbiter of truth so I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree here.