• Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social
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          The difference between communism and anarchism isn’t the aims, but whether the state could immediately be abolished or that there must be a transitional period.

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            Anarchists don’t want a fully publicly owned and planned global republic, Marxists do. Anarchists want networks of decentralized communes, Marxists do not.

            The “state” for Marxists is the oppressive elements of society that make up class distinctions, such as private property rights and the current police structure, whereas for Anarchists its usually seen as a form of hierarchy entrenched with violence.

            Chiefly, a decentralized network of communed does not get rid of class, but entrenches petite bourgeois class structures where each commune owns only what is within its commune, whereas Marxists want to abolish class by making all property equally owned by all in a highly developed and complex economy.

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        18 days ago

        Sure bro lemme teach my aunt to make her insulin, her own needles, her own glucose test strips and all that cheers

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          Maybe we should all specialize, and pay each other with our own goods, or better yet, a sort of representation of goods we all agree is valuable, so you can get one persons goods with anothers.

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            Kinda seems unfair that somebody’s aunt should have to purchase insulin she needs to survive, like she shouldn’t have to work harder to have the same lifestyle as someone without a disability. Maybe we should just give her the insulin she needs to survive, and compensate the people who make it out of some sort of common pool of resources everyone is required to contribute to, in order to distribute the costs more fairly.

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              18 days ago

              When I was younger, I tried to design an universal constructor.

              Unfortunatelly, I was using Roblox studio to do this.

              How’s that for insanity?

              I also carved a log with a knife, hacking off pieces in an attempt to make a 3D printer

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            That’s basically what happened before money was invented. Imagine being a shoe maker and wanting to get some food, can you convince the sellers to take new shoes for the food/groceries EVERY DAY?

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        18 days ago

        Like how people were gifted ability to have more knowledge at their hands than previous generations and rapid communication, and then came to the conclusion that the earth is flat, vaccines are poision, and facism is holy?

        Humans are dumb fucks. They will inevitably fuck up even the most perfect utopia they arrive in short of some mass hive mind brain washing Equilibrium style. i don’t hold that high an opinion of human society.

        Leave the world to the animals. Humans are a failed experiment and a virus to the world.