Posts by magitweeter@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AbFr8Jk616K98FGce8 by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T01:38:14Z
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@escarpment @HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy @3x10to8mps @aral @mathewThat doesn't follow either. If the state as a form of social organization is contingent on certain technologies, then it's at least as plausible that technological progress, will eventually make the state obsolete.Not “forgetting” but progress.No one knows whether «the probability is very low» of that happening.
(DIR) Post #AbFr8LRjgKpGPsgzJ2 by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T02:01:45Z
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@escarpment @HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy @3x10to8mps @aral @mathewYes. But now you have a legitimate debate, instead of an overconfident «it will never happen» position.
(DIR) Post #AbFr8NCv8OABsVmBUW by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T02:11:48Z
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@escarpment @HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy @3x10to8mps @aral @mathewNo. Your concern was that you needed to let the anarchists know that anarchy «will never happen».After it's been shown to you that you have no real support for your self-assured position, *now* your concern is a doomsday cult mindset, etcetera.You've said before you're concerned about reasoning and fallacies. Have you heard before of “moving the goalposts”?
(DIR) Post #AbFr8OfJiITKOs4NOK by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T02:25:32Z
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@escarpment @HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy @3x10to8mps @aral @mathewGood.I never said anything about anarchism requiring a deus ex machina. All i said is, if you believe that technology is what made states possible, then technology may well make them obsolete.In any case, the last few decades have seen a substantial democratization in access to technical knowledge, and some democratization in manufacturing and energy generation too. That's less than 1000 years by over an order of magnitude.
(DIR) Post #AcTWO0DSk4ev2BPd68 by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-04T18:39:23Z
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One thing capitalism is effective at is hiding moral externalities.Nobody wants to feel responsible for child labor at gunpoint, overworked migrant and third-world laborers in heinous safety conditions, or industrial-scale animal exploitation and carnage.Yet all of it underpins vast swaths of the global economy.Under capitalism, you do not have to know, and you do not have to care.
(DIR) Post #AdKRnb8ch8d9aI6nbM by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-29T21:02:17Z
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@PensiveTM Anarchy no more depends on the honesty or altruism of human beings than any other socioeconomic setup.@Radical_EgoCom @AdrianRiskin
(DIR) Post #AdKRndJgayfULBIf7g by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-30T03:40:44Z
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@PensiveTM I dispute that “leaving people to their own devices” is an accurate description of anarchy.A more accurate description is “people coming together as peers to figure out collective solutions to collective problems”.@Radical_EgoCom @AdrianRiskin
(DIR) Post #AdKRnfeftue5ar8S7E by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-30T04:42:30Z
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@PensiveTM I looked up “constitutional sheriff” and, as far as i've looked, it's a movement in the US to empower local police above federal and state governments.Why would you believe i endorse a concept like that?
(DIR) Post #AdKRnhMfXpQmtaj6KO by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-30T04:59:46Z
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@PensiveTM I don't remember saying i would infiltrate another collective. Is it possible you're confusing me with someone else?
(DIR) Post #AdKRnkDYw8vfkDUN3A by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-30T05:30:28Z
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@PensiveTM The Proud Boys are anarchists?
(DIR) Post #AdPx49VejrU7Bk3V9k by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T19:34:08Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury There's something i don't understand.You advocate «for people to grasp that we already are selfish».What difference would that make? (If it makes no difference, then it's hardly worth advocating, so you presumably believe that it does make a difference.)@FrenchPanda @ciggysmokebringer @HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @gerrymcgovern @RD4Anarchy @gnutelephony @whatzaname
(DIR) Post #AdPx4BYv6hHfYRb8WO by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T19:44:19Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury I'm not aware of many economic or social systems that revolve around people not being selfish. If not requiring people to be selfless in order to work is a good feature of capitalism, it is also a good feature of many alternatives to capitalism.@FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @RD4Anarchy
(DIR) Post #AdPx4DvKKMOasW63iy by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T19:54:12Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury Presumably you believe capitalism to be superior to the alternatives, at least those alternatives in common currency. It's odd then to focus on a feature that does not actually distinguish capitalism versus the alternatives.@FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @RD4Anarchy
(DIR) Post #AdPx4G5gGprlbCxM8m by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T20:01:38Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury One thing that capitalism does require from people, that many alternatives don't, is that they accept the primacy of private property—including large-scale absentee-ownership arrangements.Would you say acknowledging the primacy of private property is a natural human drive?Or does capitalism fight against human nature in this sense?@FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @RD4Anarchy
(DIR) Post #AdPx4HkU6c6Ek33SNc by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T20:11:48Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury Is it really? I find it very natural to say that i own my computer and my clothes and my house. I don't find it natural to say that i could own a manufacturing plant three hundred miles away, or pieces of a company that i've never set foot into. Such forms of property are hardly natural but capitalism requires us to act as if they are.@FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @RD4Anarchy
(DIR) Post #AdPx4L8hV2FjG1PL2e by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T21:26:03Z
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@HeavenlyPossum Indeed. And you know what feels more natural to me than owning a company?Owning your job.This is so true that jobs have ended up in people's surnames. What you do is basically part of your identity.Capitalism requires that you leave your relationship to your job up to a third party. That's not natural.@neonsnake @RD4Anarchy @FrenchPanda @AlexanderKingsbury
(DIR) Post #AdPx4Muwt8ROlwzNsu by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T23:00:24Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury Yeah, that was misworded. I will clarify.Capitalism is distribution-agnostic. If through the workings of the market everyone becomes capable of self-employment, that's fine. If instead all productive property becomes concentrated in the hands of a small hereditary caste of rentier-owners and self-employment becomes impossible, that's also fine.Capitalism requires that we accept that as a legitimate possible outcome.@HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @RD4Anarchy @FrenchPanda
(DIR) Post #Ai3xxDyTv89j8QRNL6 by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2024-05-19T22:30:06Z
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@sharonecathcart If the law is getting in the way of stopping genocide then they need to stop caring about the law.@maggiejk @Radical_EgoCom @cferdinandi
(DIR) Post #AjJ9r7csBbauRlZdWi by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2024-06-26T04:17:15Z
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@Radical_EgoCom Both, because of means-ends unity.
(DIR) Post #Am3gyiBgiVreJwuC7U by magitweeter@mastodon.social
2024-09-16T10:48:46Z
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@aral Without billionaires, who would sell me clean air and fresh water when we run out of it all?