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[–] miz@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Damn, that's some serious shade RD throws at anarchists in the postscript.

Since we’re discussing two-dimensional models, it would be churlish not to address one popular two-dimensional model and its implications: the two-axis “political compass.”

This diagram, popular among the extremely online, organizes ideologies along a “Left-Right” axis and an “Authoritarian-Libertarian” axis. Anarchism, along with micro-variants like “anarcho-communism” and “libertarian socialism,” then lays claim to the “Left-Libertarian” quadrant, and thus positions itself as one of the Big Four.

To briefly cite some notable anarchist theorists:

The Communism of Marx seeks enormous centralization in the state, and where such exists, there must inevitably be a central state bank, and where such a bank exists, the parasitic Jewish nation, which speculates on the work of the people, will always find a way to prevail. [Bakunin]

The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. [Goldman]

Nietzsche was not a social theorist but a poet, a rebel and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was of the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were aristocrats. [Goldman]

I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism of the type that you have advanced. […] Let me make it very plain that if socialism, which is what I call the authoritarian version of collectivism, were to emerge, I would join your [anarcho-capitalist] community. I would migrate to your community and do everything I could to prevent the collectivists from abridging my right to function as I like. [Bookchin]

Anarchism is an uninteresting ideological byproduct of capitalism characterized above all by its adherents’ transvaluation of their own irrelevance into a religious virtue. I consider it a minor sibling of liberalism and fascism, sharing all of their Euro-individualist delusions of genius and grandeur.

This is all I will say about it in this context.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

that works. i was thinking of the pithy quote about white supremacy being like a black hole: not directly observable but you know it's there by the effects or something along those lines.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

that's the one, thank you. i've used that one in real life to good effect (thankfully without anyone ever asking for a source)

rat-salute to comrade beambrain for nailing that shit like the fucking romans.