• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I haven’t found an adequate explanation of how anarchism works to not be tinder for the fires of corruption and power consolidation.

    I get that these are diseases of all societies, but the institutional systems of a liberal democracy seems at least to slow the process down. Granted, we’ve not had a one that has lasted for a thousand years.

    So —seriously asking — how does anarchism work to last a thousand years?

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      2 days ago

      Oh no, I’m not an anarchist. I’m a Marxist, I understand the state to be an organ by which one class represses another.

      That’s why I’m saying “authoritarianism” is gibberish. There’s no other way to organize complex society. For now.

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        So you understand the state is the organ by which the vanguard represses the working class, yet you’re for it?