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  • Cowbee constantly proving that anti-communism relies on ignorance and bigotry, and the correct way to counter it is to soberly repeat the facts about existing or previously existing communist states, removing the accumulated moss piled on year after year by liberal / capitalist-controlled media and educational institutions.





  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlLemmy libs never can 😁
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    4 days ago

    But that implies that the members of the party are actually part of the proletarian class. This supposed class membership is purely idealist.

    You are incorrectly defining class. This essence of class is: who controls the means of production, and who decides what to do with the surplus value created.

    State administrators (uncharitably bureaucrats as you would call them) are not a class. They do not privately owns means of production, nor collect the surplus value of workers, deciding privately what to do with it. What to do with the surplus, and production decisions, are determined by decision making at the collective, political-level, not at the private level.


  • Monopoly means that only a small amount of agents get access to it.

    That was precisely the case. Durruti’s column especially found that any “decentralized” command structure breaks down quickly into interminable squabbles, and like any revolutionary army, had to institute a strict hierarchy and centralized control. Most but not all anarchist groups accepted this centralized control as a necessity.

    I suggest reading the tyranny of structurelessness on why “anti-authoritarian” groupings always end up either destroying themselves, or in cults of personality due to their individualist rejection of rules, organization, and structures of authority.


  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlLemmy libs never can 😁
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    Authoritarianism: The degree to which a power structure monopolizes control over the total social implementation of some power.
    Domination: The degree to which some power structure utilizes coercion, violence, and/or deception to achieve its ends.

    What existing collective doesn’t fit this definition? Because by this definition, the anarchist controlled areas of republican spain then, were deeply authoritarian.






  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlProgresive Democrats be like
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    6 days ago

    Do you think Lenin would spend his time attacking a socdems that wanted to stop genocide while ignoring their further right opponent?

    Platner does not want to stop genocide, he went to Iraq multiple times to help carry out one.

    And Lenin literally spent most of his life in polemics against socdems. Platner’s probably even worse than Kerensky.









  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlFYI
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    8 days ago

    We can have the solace that the US empire cannot last forever, and with all the atrocities it has and continues to commit, in the long term its digging its own grave. The people of the world refuse to be kept in chains, they have risen up and will continue to do so. Class struggle will rear its head until class society is abolished, and the contradictions inherent to it are resolved.