Val

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[–] Val@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lets ditch base10 entirely and use 0(freezing)-216(boiling). that means 0-1000 in base6.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wube (creators of Factorio) have the best customer policy in game development.

  • Don't go on sale so you will always pay the cheapest price.
  • if you have the game on steam you can download a DRM-free version directly from their website. (alongside all old versions)
  • Encourage the community to create mods, host your own mod portal accessible inside the game.
  • Make a good game.
  • Be open about game development through monthly blog posts.

The only way I would like it more is if the game was open source but since that's impossible to sell I will take this.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

saksa comes from saxony, which was historically a major power in the region. (My knowledge comes from CK2)

[–] Val@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago

Anti-statism. Anarchism is against all hierarchy. Including class.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I wonder if the people who downvoted actually listened to the song, or just did it based on the name.

 

"Let's make America great again, by making racists ashamed again."

[–] Val@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Ideology. every cent a capitalist doesn't make because of me is a small victory.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

All murders happen because of emotional (killing someone in anger), economical (Theft gone wrong) or psychological (Doesn't realize it's wrong) reasons. none of these is prevented by sticking the murderer in a box after the murder.

All of these are prevented by building strong social network to manage any harmful impulses before something happens, which is something any reasonable anarchist would agree with.

Also If you think the list is incomplete then feel free to give another example.

Oh yeah also political assassinations and wars. But your comment already addresses those.

I think a better wording is that anarchy is naive. And I'd rather be naive than accept that this is the best we can come up with, because that's depressing.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I apologize you couldn't find the answer to your question from my comment, and thus thought I was dodging it. I tried to explain it in the way that I see it. In my eyes I answered your question clearly, but I will try to be even clearer on my second try.
(hopefully this doesn't come off as patronizing)

I would also like to know what were the pedantics that you identified in my comment. If it was the final statement then that was my attempt to bring humor into the argument and wasn't in any way meant seriously. Perhaps I should have used /j

To get to your question (and hopefully answer it more clearly). An anarchist society forms when anarchists come together to create a society. If someone with guns came to destroy that society the anarchists would defend themselves. If one of the anarchists turns their gun against their comrades the others would respond in kind. If they don't the person takes power and the system stops being anarchistic.

Or to put it even more simply: In an anarchist society everyone is policing and protecting everyone else.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it is best to clarify my terms. Anarchy to me is a structured society built entirely out of free associations. It isn't lawless. Anarchy has rules. A lawless society will naturally take the shape of the people in that society. If all the people are anarchists, they will create an anarchist society, if they are statists, they will create a state. Society is a collection of people living together there is no reason it has to be hierarchical. The people are the ones who make it like that.

What stops our current society from devolving into that if anarchic revolution were to occur?

An anarchist revolution is the complete transformation of society to use non-hierarchical power structures. If after the revolution the society falls back into hierarchy then that means the people were not willing to let go their addiction to authority.

The link is for an FAQ, technically not a book, since most books are shorter than 3077 pages. However it does contain every question one might have about anarchy and answers it pretty neatly.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I most certainly do not mean men with guns taking whatever they want. That is authoritarian. The revolution is an ongoing process to redefine society as a non-hierarchical. I see it as non-violent: only defending against violence, never inciting it.

Between writing that comment I read through the anarchist FAQ on revolution.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full#text-amuse-label-secj7
And I agree with it wholeheartedly.

We as a species are far enough for anarchism to work, people just have to stop believing in authority, and we have to help them.

I also do not think anarchism is a utopia. There is nothing about it that couldn't work. Non-hierarchical societies have existed, and their dissolution just means people aren't ready yet.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

More specifically, yes. It is collective anarchism, but in this context I think it is obvious enough that I don't need to clarify it further.

Also I think that any type of anarchism allows for collective anarchism, and by extension could be used to mean collective anarchism.

[–] Val@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's annoying is that we probably would be a whole lot closer to actual communism and anarchism if the bolsheviks never took power and destroy all the communism that was happening during the Russian revolution.

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