Sphere

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[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Racism, you complete blockhead. She was a horrendous racist.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yogthos isn't a Hexbear, and .ml's worldnews comm is not a Hexbear comm. Good try, though!

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I could quibble over the circumstances (and, unfortunately, likely outcomes in the near future), or argue about your dig at the USSR, but honestly I'm more inclined to cede the point on this. I don't really have anything against anarchists or anarchism; I was mostly just giving a flippant answer to that other commenter, who was being a smug jerk.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

In my ideal postrevolutionary society, there would be special political/economic zones where anarchists could live and try to build a model for the society of the future, sheltered from external threats by the communist state. I don't think anarchists and MLs necessarily need to be at odds.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

You've been talking down to me this entire time and you claim to have degrees in both economics and political science, and you're now complaining that I'm being elitist for pointing out that you're not actually familiar with my ideology in any depth?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

(Which anyone with a decent understanding of Marx would know, and therefore avoid using the word in a description of Marxist goals.)

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Marx's utopian conception of a classless society

Tell me you don't understand Marx without telling me you don't understand Marx

Edit: LMFAO YOU CITED ZIQ BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Look, I'm not trying to justify everything the Bolsheviks did during the Russian Civil War. I don't know enough of the history to make a judgment call on most of that stuff. So I'm going to leave the question of morality entirely aside on this one.

But I don't think you can call your revolution successful if, within a few years, some external force is able to show up, wreck everything you were doing, and take over. It's not enough to just temporarily wrest control away and set up your committees and your resource distribution system and declare victory. You have to establish long-term security and stability. If you don't, you haven't had a successful revolution.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, he's referring to communists there.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

Ah yes, the evidence of history. Like all the successful anarchist revolutions?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

I can't believe we are having to rehash the Kautsky debate in the year 2025

The article was published in 2019 (rather notably prior to the ratfucking of Bernie 2020, which shifted this very debate dramatically), so maybe we aren't?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 56 points 3 weeks ago (173 children)

Always good to fight other leftists as fascism closes its grip on the imperial core. Great strategy.

(Posts like this aren't allowed on Hexbear, and for good reason. What value is there in shitstirring like this? Why be needlessly antagonistic? I really don't get it.)

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