illegalist-pearl:

anarcutie:

illegalist-pearl:

anarcutie:

illegalist-pearl:

thepeacockangel:

illegalist-pearl:

thepeacockangel:

My politics are like “Revolutionary anti-authoritarian (but not necessarily anarchist, some Marxists/Trots/leftcoms/etc and so on are also okay, and like a lot of post-left anarchists/individualist anarchists aren’t) anti-capitalists who are willing to adapt their theoretical positions when presented with evidence of how they work in practice and are basically good hearted and want the best for people

“ should all work together to create revolution and then cooperate to create a better society, because ultimately they should care more about how their policies work than theoretical purity.

so what you’re saying is you’re a materialist, not an idealist, just like Marx? same tbh but I think there’s not an implementation of the state which is capable of being benevolent and non-tyrannical

I don’t know like… what qualifies as a state, because it becomes a weird semantic point…

funny because I have The Marx Dictionary in my hands and it defines the state as “the political expression of class rule, conditioned by the economic structure prevailing in civil society” which is a fine definition but I would definitely like to add to it Max Weber’s concept of “monopoly on violence,” which I think is crucial.

The LibCom Introductory Guide to the state is one of the best short introductions that I point folks at regularly.

this is a very good resource and I agree with pretty much all of it except that they claim that reformism isn’t counter revolutionary then they spend the next dozen or so paragraphs proving that it is.

It doesn’t say that tho. It says reforms are not counter-revolutionary. They agree that reformism is.

reforms are the practical application of reformism you cannot describe one as not counterrevolutionary and the other as such.

I mean I think that having foodstamps while we organize the rev can only be a good thing.  Like I often think anti-reformist rhetoric (and like I don’t believe you can “fix” capitalism in a way that makes it good or okay, but like you can reduce how many people it kills) ends up getting into the accelerationist “we need the workers to live in the most abject misery possible so that they develop class consciousness and start the revolution” type dealio which I don’t like.  Like I don’t think that not starving as much has to make people complacent.  My husband would have died without New Zealand’s welfare system, I wouldn’t have healthcare without Obamacare, but I think that they’re often put in place by those in power with the hope of appeasement, but we don’t have to be appeased