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Do you think that the political system could be meaningfully, substantially, and radically altered without waging something like a general strike?

I like that Chou Enlai quote. It's interesting to think about revolution in that sense. I don't know how I didn't think of this, but there are bound t...

Well, okay then.

They had a WWF event on at work a while ago. It was a totally surreal experience. I understand the theatrics, but wrestling is just so incredibly bizz...

There are bound to be ways of rewarding merit without producing some sort of structural inequality. The positive freedom to intimidate an other impede...

Interesting. So you would see ideology as a rewiring of the brain, then?

Do you mean something like that Christians don't really believe in God, but, rather, that they believe in the desire for there to be a God? That's a f...

Oh, I agree, and the regime changes weren't always undertaken under the guise of Liberal virtues. I honestly don't know what can be done about the pol...

I wince and am piqued by a righteous anger. Like I said, you can only ever suspend your disbelief to a certain extent, but it does get suspended.

It's a way of evading certain questions by cherry picking poor word choices so as to level an ad hominem. When you ask someone "What do you think Anar...

I've heard a lot of Anarchists imply that creating society is somehow sort of Fascist. I think that it's ultimately a means to dismiss an argument wit...

Because it's like the slime was really there. Like, when I play Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance and I have to fight the slime in the dungeon, I do reall...

I'm suggesting that better cultural dialogue will result in that fundamentalist Muslims become less fundamentalist. As an Anarchist, I was kind of hop...

The Labour Party is alright, I guess. I honestly don't even really believe in political parties. I like what Simone Weil has to say about them in On t...

You could. If the slime film was really good and you caught it at the right time in the right theater the simulation of the experience could be equiva...

Well, yeah, I mean why vote for Howie Hawkins when there's Bernie Sanders? I am being somewhat stubborn. The Democratic Party just had it out for me a...

I'm pretty sure that people would actually scream, gasp, and duck during some of the old films at things like when a train would appear to move toward...

I guess I don't think that I think that the hijab is something which can be considered to be socially disintegrative to where imposing a ban would at ...

Why do people cry during films if there isn't some element to where you actually believe that the film is happening? If temporarily believing that the...

I have found out that the DSA just supports Bernie Sanders and, so, my plans have been foiled. I'll just have to vote Green I guess. I've just realize...

I agree that freedom and quality are somewhat interdependent and that they can co-arise, but don't know that I would say that freedom is not natural. ...

I'm not a moderator and am not going to assume that you made your earlier post in sincerity, but please do not make threats in this thread. I don't ev...

I don't think that banning them in schools is a good idea. It is a religous choice. It's one that I don't necessarily agree with, but I don't think th...

But such pragmatic realism is precisely the kind of concessionary logic which allows for the political situation as it stands today. Why agree to a st...

Being naive is better than being cynical in my opinion.

I have an added response from the previous comment. I guess I don't see the State as being "evil"; I just think that it lends itself too well in the w...

I'm glad that you like what I have to say. I don't see the State as being by nature the abuse of power, however. I just see that it inherently flawed ...

Yes, but Anarchists clearly do not call for that there should be no central government in the sense that there should be warring factions of various p...

I don't know too much about what the Green New Deal implies, but don't necessarily see environmental oversight as hazarding crossing over into the neb...

I actually wonder if it isn't somehow delusionally Communist determinist. There's a way of interpreting utopian ideals as projecting a kind of politic...

But it's not the prevailing dogma. The Democratic Party does not advance anything like the Centralized state beaurocracy of the Soviet Union. The prev...

As the population becomes more educated, that is to say, as they become more aware, they will continue to demand more just social relationships. The d...

Who is a statist? People say this, but I've almost never met someone who identifies as being a "statist". Even Marxist-Leninists don't call themselves...

Their concept does draw from those ideas. My working definition of "Empire", which is rather poor, is the "regimens of the State and Capital as they r...

I don't think that egalitarianism necessarily implies that the skilled will be hindered by that they will be forcibly held back in order to make up fo...

I haven't actually read Rousseau, but see the Social Contract as more of a state of affairs than a creative Ethical proclamation. It is the case that ...

Yes, but, according to @"Terrapin Station", I am sure that you are still making "factual claims".

Well, I conceded the point and don't intend to try and ruin High Fantasy for you @"Pattern-chaser". I don't know that I have too much else to say in t...

I'm not discounting that there was not no government in Somalia. I'm stating that there are not a significant number of Anarchists in Somalia to consi...

I'm positing that the State could have changed enough as a result of globalization for the concept to not be as applicable as it was in the past. I th...

Naked banking sounds pretty far out! I just think that at all regulating how people dress is an overreach regardless as to that there are a few outlie...

I wish there was a better word for maximal because I think that it sounds somewhat ridiculous, but "maximal" is really the only term that I can think ...

I posted the link to the Wikipedia article so that I wouldn't have to explain what it was. Participatory democracy just simply emphasizes the particip...

I'm just not sure that that Israelis will accept Hallakah rule in any near future. I also don't know that that would ultimately effect a good politica...

If you read the Wikipedia article on participatory democracy you will find out what it is. I just don't have a working definition of "the State" right...

I think that you should be allowed to dress however you please, including the lack of clothes, regardless as to what "society's" values are.

I can't see the Israelis accepting Hamas's rule anytime soon. I also don't know how much positive change that that would really effect.

How is participatory democracy leased? Participatory democracy is what was practiced during the Paris Commune. I don't know how to adequately define "...

How will Hamas guarantee law and order and who will possibly agree to the restoration of Ottoman millets? I see what you are saying, but I don't think...

I would just arguing against @"Tzeentch"'s statement that That statement didn't really have anything to do with the hijab. Assumedly, you would let th...