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The following is a discussion between a self described anarchist and a sociology professor who explains super well where we're at global police state ...

Although the hermit is certainly suitable for some people at some times, my point was about removing from public life was a criticism of corporate pow...

I didn't see this, but we are clearly in agreement already on the co-opting. Also notable, identity politics is nearly 100% corporate power. Forming a...

All is well. Yes indeed, propaganda of the deed can be big and small actions. At the same time, all this has failed to prevent or even mitigate a geno...

In the same way you may walk into a Mormon temple and fail to identify the teachings of Christ, or fail to see it in a popes golden hat for that matte...

Excellent. And if you read Proudhon, Kropotkin, Emma Goldstein, Tolstoy (Kingdom of God is Within You), you'll find this school of anarchism mostly hu...

We are of one mind. I was more peeved at the suggestions against the need to read a whole lot of books to gain any insight into this particular questi...

Definitely we agree here. If we've moved past simplification to a single sentence, relationship to nature is probably the biggest cultural, motivation...

For anarchists (of my school, say Kropotkin school for short, under consideration here) the key question is effective power. For example, we do not ha...

If the system is unsustainable, as our most erudite scientists tell us, then the system will fail at some point in the future. If the sustainable alte...

We are on the same team, wanting to know more about things. Marx aims to change the ownership of the means of production. For Marx the development of ...

Sure, but the simplification shouldn't be the opposite of a true statement. In this case, it's socialists by and large and in particular Marxists who ...

Literally no Marxist or anarchist would ever say either of these idiocies. How exactly would you go about changing economic conditions without changin...

I second your message.

Now, if people don't want Marxist language in a discussion involving Marxism, my argument can be simplified. There is first a christian communist move...

Sure, obviously, definitely reading Marx is a good starting point in a discussion that includes Marxism ... but then what's to discuss here? As for ve...

But please oblige me, how exactly do you go about comparing historical movements over many centuries, if not millennia, that include many intellectual...

You're saying having read the thinkers the OP is asking about is akin to playing hockey with an upside down stick ... or in other words the noble craf...

And in general, I just really don't get anti-book intellectualism and why you, or anyone who's read books, would foster and nurture the notion. It's l...

How exactly do we go about comparing Marx to Anarchism if reading any thinker in each, not to mention Marx himself, is off the table? Obviously no one...

Then focus on one point if your mind and education is only able to deal with one point at a time. Your OP question here is wanting to know the differe...

The question is one of effective power. Liberal democracies are constructed specifically to avoid anarchy through the principle of "consent of the gov...

The "dictatorship of the proletariat" was a criticism of the idea of democracy by its detractors at the time; democracy being a horrid thought for ari...

As a short addendum, the post above is differentiating Marxism with Anarchism starting with Marx and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, as ...

As a self described anarchist, I certainly hope I can provide some insight into your question. First some historical context: Socialism, communism and...

The point of the first volume, The Book of Croms, as the name suggests, is focused on proposing a foundation for political action and coordination, su...

I'm just trying to keep with the tradition set forth by Kant and Wittgenstein and most of our philosophical forebears of continuously claiming that ev...

If I understand correctly you are a mathematician, so the meaning of avoiding contradiction here is just in the basic sense as appears in mathematics ...

Thanks for this, on the Ukraine discussion one poster mostly just spammed links, without even summarizing them and when he did do so he'd make his poi...

Well I've mentioned quite a lot that the war is good for arms manufacturers, but it maybe the first time I've pointed out that the arms manufacturers ...

To put 2000 posts in two months in context, I have just over 2300 posts in 8 years, and I'd say I post pretty regularly. ... and it's an average of 33...

You just described how you proved my point. I guess thanks for that. Soooo, I'm not following you here, you'll need to spell it out.

By "manages the risk" what is meant is maximizing the net present value, which is basically expected gain but integrating over a longer term to take i...

First, in terms of general principle, the war profiteering contribution from the war in Ukraine, especially in terms of defence contractors, is in cre...

Hmmm, well Zelensky to start, then maybe throw in a bit of Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems. But why stop at 3? There's all sorts of profits to be gain...

You are so committed to the propaganda that you are simply unable to conceive that it's even possible for their to be a hot war between Finland and Ru...

You do realize this is a debate forum, and considering you weren't even addressing the points impacted by your citation of my point, certainly you can...

... Again ... why only now? (even if true, which it's not in any remotely meaningful "preparing for total war with Russia" sense) But same question to...

No, I did not answer the rebuttal myself. The points here are twain: First, they've been saying the exact same thing since 2022 in order to justify po...

It's Schrödinger's war machine. There is no cognitive dissonance: the narratives are superimposed simultaneously without that bothering anyone in the ...

There is not the remotest semblance of a European war time economy in preparation or planning. Saying stuff, arms deals / profiteering from the situat...

Well I must call bullshit on your calling bullshit. I clearly specified that "large extent being defined here as enough to render pacification easy"; ...

"Saying stuff" is not building up arms in any meaningful way, whether to send into Ukraine as the "last line of defence" or then for your own preperat...

The point was in your seeming to take issue with my description of the "chemical attack script" which obviously came and went along time ago, serving ...

Perhaps, given everything that was told by mainly @"Tzeentch", the late @"Isaac" and myself, you would consider for a moment that propaganda has lead ...

They were agents in their own unagency Tzeentch, authors of their own writing themselves out of the script entirely.

Yes, I missed your definition of "domestic political support" to include the "security apparatus", which removes nearly the entire meaning of the expr...

Well you seem to have just disproven your own point then since if Russia foreign policy depends on domestic political support, which you claim the Rus...

This is not a theoretical flaw, it is a prediction of the theory that domestic politics has little effect on great power politics and there's both the...

It's also the company my money laundering investigation ultimately led to, and so their not having working website I thought was totally normal (most ...