Post 2070867 by bitsforbreakfast@pleroma.site
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 (DIR) Post #2070866 by bitsforbreakfast@pleroma.site
       2018-12-18T06:42:03.125400Z
       
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       Well I deleted this a minute ago bc i got paranoid people would eat me alive for it but i wanna repost it now.re: marxism and equality. we have to think about how the terms of the debate are framed. words carry multiple meanings and imprecision spreads confusion.liberals and conservatives slander communism as attacking the very nature of human individuality -- you've heard it before, "marxists want to make us all the same and pay us the same wage!"this actually expresses the bourgeoisie's fear of communists destroying the social-economic basis of specifically bourgeois individuality which is based on property. Abolish that and you have effectively abolished what structured capitalists' sense of individuality.So it SEEMS to them that we are trying to erase all individuality by erasing private property.But in FACT we are for political and social equality based on the abolition of classes. the abolition of classes is by definition a state of equality, but not in an abstract universal sense -- when socialists talk about equality, and WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD, we should be clear that we are talking about certain kinds of equality, not the weird abstract universal definition liberals and conservatives talk about
       
 (DIR) Post #2070867 by bitsforbreakfast@pleroma.site
       2018-12-18T06:44:17.465880Z
       
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       we can't, and wouldn't want to, erase everything that makes people different from each other and make everyone eat the same grey paste. people are different. the goal is to estabish the basis for everyone to flourish as individuals by eradicating social differentiation. The condition for each individual's freedom is the social equality of all.not sure if this is making sense but i am posting it anyway
       
 (DIR) Post #2070868 by fashywhitefem@baraag.net
       2018-12-18T06:51:06Z
       
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       @bitsforbreakfast I’m reading, but I kinda lose you at the “it’s about equality, but not in any crushing bad way” — yeah, but it’s literally the devil in the details of defining the non-bad way that complicate things.  So it’s too vague for me.  I’ll keep reading, if you wanted to flesh out how social differentiations are unique from “things that makes people different.”  What is specifically introduced in social valuation that makes difference a negative (if I’m reading that correctly)?