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It isn't that it benefits people but it is like the popularity of Trump that it panders to the xenophobic types who think immigrants are ruining their...

Well to add a little to your knowledge there is another man named Nigel Farage, maybe you knew the name already, who is very pally with Donald Trump a...

Yes that sounds like a good summation of the milieu in the states. I wonder how it contrasts with the UK. I am not really sure how it works here if an...

I don't see why it necessarily has to be that though? What about the lead by example way of communes mentioned throughout this discussion?

Yes then one asks what difference are religious crusades from proletariat uprisings? I suppose anarchism will also get down in the mud too? I seems th...

This is what I tried to tell boethius to perhaps allow his points to get across better but he dismissed it and continues with is disjointed ramblings....

Oh yes I forgot that that was discussed earlier, the idea of capitalism/christianity being just as bloody or perhaps far more merely through having be...

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Just looking back at this again and still trying to get a more clear picture of how the Maoist or Stalinist, or whichever other you wish to enter here...

Zizek was mentioned briefly by you earlier, what are your thoughts on him? Since your mention I have been looking into him a little. I had seen the na...

Indeed. Lots/most philosophers will take the general meaning of a word then run with it and just explain how they are going to be using it (hopefully)...

It was remarked to me online, by a Libertarian crypto enthusiast, that communism is bad because you don't have a choice. Is that true? I don't remembe...

I have been thinking that while I was not politically aware over my life this does seem to get to the root of what I have always hated about society a...

I am indeed, and would welcome the discussion continuing in the thread between you two, but I have higher priority questions which are currently takin...

I too am interested to see if they are able to bring anything substantive to their claim.

To bring back an analogy this does strike me as sounding very similar to the open source idea of federation. With many jumping from X to Mastodon, app...

I don't object to it continuing in this thread? I was also finding it relevant and this thread has had its natural meanderings already and does not se...

Something else I have been thinking about. If we were to engage in a thought experiment, how would social life look under an anarchist or communist so...

I am just starting to read the anarchist faq. Is this the same one as the one you linked earlier but with a different url? While both anarchism's and ...

Wow don't waste any more time indulging them. Hindu, is like Jordan Peterson. Wants to argue semantics because they don't have the chops to actually a...

Ok so it is not totally unfounded that anarchists have at some points in time sown discord in society. The mainstream view is not a total fabrication ...

Yes I don't know why this getting hung up on the semantics of an analogy, which is, as is commonly understood of the term, not the thing in itself. I ...

I am glad the conversation has naturally come back to the comparing of the two as the communism part, queried in the OP, had fallen behind. I take res...

Ok your explanation of pre industrial/pre policing makes it make more sense. Does that mean that the watchmen style of dispute settlement, being commu...

Hello again. I came across the website redpepper.org.uk today which seems heavily anarchism inspired. It has given me some more fuel to add to the dis...

Useful if starting a commune, which I may want to do. Well I am not saying "I only want to do x that will get me y" that sounds too capitalistic! It i...

Thanks. After we covered the bases with this thread my motivation for it was suddenly sapped out as I thought how futile it is since we are still stuc...

Yes but do you suggest becoming a hermit like a Buddhist monk living in a cave? The rest of the world will still be capitalistic so will have to navig...

Which subgroup are you referring to? This forum, or the far left in general or anarchists? Unclear. :)

I don't think anyone on the Left generally disagrees that they are noble causes on paper. The problem is they get hijacked like other noble causes so ...

I haven't read it all yet but from the titles it looks to be covered in the link above. Big quote dump but the titles all seemed relevant. Still yet t...

Sure on reflection I was being overly sensitive mainly due to the earlier priming seeing a whole front page almost devoted to stuff like that earlier ...

Ok I was reading the anarchist library and things were looking good then soon hit upon the identity politics again: I don't think you would read that ...

What 'that list' are you referring to here? but yes I was meaning actual real life organizations that call themselves anarchists.

Coming back to this I was on the phone with my mother today trying to explain some of what had been discussed here and when the question came from her...

Interesting to read that some that are not the usual righties have also critiqued it. I know that Sam Harris has also done so. With the way any kind o...

I was just looking up local anarchist forums and the front page of the first one I click is full of trans and queer activism stuff. Certainly nothing,...

Good :) I was able to digest a lot more of that. Btw it reminded me of another thought I had been having. How did anarchy get related to the destroy e...

Sure it is just an example for illustration but most of those issues are because they are still operating in a capitalist system. Not saying that groc...

Like housing co-operatives then that are quite popular among the hippy folks? I knew some people in one and sounds just like how they explained it; if...

What is the difference between this and the trade unions that have been popular for a hundred years or so? I am doing both. Reading source material an...

Aha! The proof is in the pudding... I just read in The Conquest of Bread some of what has been discussed here where it states that rather than collect...

I am not saying you are full of it...yet, :) but if you are going to make such claims I think they should be backed up by real examples rather than to...

I would be terrified if the lowest common denominator were making decisions. Look at the Trump situation. Then again maybe if it was on a smaller scal...

This sounds like the stereotyped view of anarchy that capitalists would say who have done no reading on it and just taking the cliche pop culture idea...

Ok, I am on board with this. I despise the mega corporations where you not able to get in touch with a human and only get automated responses. What yo...

Can you answer the question I posed earlier: how do anarchists propose to manage things like law enforcement, healthcare and the like if there is no g...

We have a good debate going now and I am learning a lot and it is good to have different minds chiming in on the subject.

Now these bitesize chunks are more manageable for my puny brain to compute. On gardens, I was having a discussion at one time about that with someone ...

Ok I have started intoThe Conquest of Bread and right from the preface it is chock full of historical references, so far of socialism and communism an...