Feddit.onlineThey cannot see the things that will hurt them
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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/42620143
Their lives are blissful… free from the burden of self doubt.
Revolutionary Spain represents an example of extremely effective armed resistance to the rise of fascist forces backed by Hitler and Mussolini, surviving for years. By contrast, many established democracies collapsed relatively quickly when invaded.
For more information, you can check out an anarchist FAQ’s answer to the question, "Does revolutionary Spain show that libertarian socialism can work in practice?". For a more current example of an anarchist society working in practice, you could also check out the Zapatista movement, an anarchist society which today consists of at least 300,000 people.
If you’re unfamiliar with anarchism, you probably have some misconceptions about it, so I encourage you to watch the Q&Anarchy video series by Thought Slime or have a look through an Anarchist FAQ, because it’s almost definitely nothing like what you think.
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Nobody sane wants to live like the Zapatistas.
Speak for yourself, because that sounds fucking awesome, to me.
There are signs and magazines in North Korea declaring it the happiest and most prosperous nation on earth, would you not rather live in the happiest place?
North Korea is an oppressive, totalitarian state, with limited freedoms, so no, I would prefer not to live there, even if everyone there truly was happy, because I believe in freedom.
That is why I oppose liberal ideology, because it enables the wage slavery of the working class for the benefit of the ruling class.
Do you have any actual objections to life under the Zapatistas, or are you just going to continue vagueposting about how it must be bad because you decided it must be?
That’s not what their sign says, though. You posted a Zapatistas sign that says it’s free and uncorrupt, and the DPRK has the same sign.
The Zapatistas live in isolation surrounded by a bunch of men with guns, it sounds less like freedom and more like constant threat of violence to keep people in line.
The people have armed themselves to protect themselves from people like you. They are more free than you can possibly imagine, and that idea terrifies you.
The People’s Stick, I see.
Maybe the post-1950s PR campaign was unnecessary all along.
You do realize that the Zapatistas, before this recent trouble with “Blaming the government (that they don’t need) for not controlling the cartels” tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?
There’s a long laundry-list of problems with how the Zapatistas have ‘settled in’ to their role since the turn of the century.
Oh no, they protect themselves, how terrible. Is this the best you got? The US is executing their own people in the street and has one of the largest imprisoned populations in the world, but anarchists have a border and rules that were collectively decided by the residents to protect people?
They’ve literally hosted international conferences this year. I literally cannot with you people.
Please disengage, I’m sick of the bad faith bullshit.
You wanna point out to me where that contradicts “holding a conference”?
Yeah, sorry that you haven’t been following anything except the endless glazing of Subcommandante Marcos. I understand that PR of the internet age is much more compelling to our generation than the staid 1950s-level PR of former ML states, but I would suggest that you learn to think for yourself nonetheless.
“Bad faith is when I’m contradicted”
Okay.
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I’m sorry I don’t follow the rules of the Fae, or whichever arcane code you’re following?
If you want to disengage, feel free to disengage. No one is forcing you to respond to me. If you want to get the last word in and then say “Disengage” thinking it’s a “Now my points can’t be responded to :3” card, feel free to go fuck yourself.