You know what the single most powerful force in human history is?
Organization.
This is a subjective statement.
Organization. Which is always hierarchal.
This is an untrue statement.
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You know what the most common attribute of Anarchist revolutions is? They all failed. Every single one of them. That is what you want. Failure.
Save this one until you are crowing at me from the parapets of your Utopia. Oh wait, it has to be global, so I guess I'm the one inside the walls.
All states are authoritarian
It is not a binary distinction. It is also not something all ideologies seek to use as a tool. Rather, some seek to minimize it. I think you are telling me Marxism is an ideology that seeks to fully utilize authoritarianism, almost as though it WERE a binary distinction, and there is no point in going half way.
Overall I take your response to mean you would have found that a less objectionable definition.
Would you have quibbled less if I had said "authoritarianism" instead of "violence"? I wasn't trying to be slanted, that was genuinely my impression of what the term meant.
You cannot have Marxist views if you are not in favor of using violence to impose Marxist ideals?
I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.
You dropped your friggin' > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.
tankies (ie people who endorse violence as a valid path forward from right here) == marxists?? man, i don't know jack
It's not about the reality of defending yourself from tyranny with homicide. It's about the psychological comfort that the warped fantasy brings.
It certainly sucked for those who did, but the majority didn’t have to worry about war.
It's not like you knew; you were still fucking worried even if you were in the 9/10. Also, human beings don't exist in isolation, and even if you didn't get drafted, there was still a significant possibility that someone you loved (eg Elvis) got drafted.
And this is exactly why we can't have affordable housing. All these boomers go from wealthy retirees to hungry tent dwellers like the rest of us.
Jesus, it was your word. If you didn't want to be pinned down to it, why apply it to yourself in the first place. Feel free to pick a better one, I'll wait.