Person I replied to is the one who mentioned two side (though I get the feeling you’re coming at this from the political compass point of view which is garbage in its own right).
As for your assessment - no tankies don’t count as leftists, but anarchists sure do. Or do you consider ancaps to be anarchists? Because that’s a whole other pile of wrong.
Either way, I’m seriously struggling to find the point of your reply.
Right, and hitler called himself a socialist, that didn’t actually make him one (feel free to read my discussion with op bellow where we go in to exactly this).
Anyone with even a basic understanding of anarchism will tell you that capitalism is terminally incompatible with it, making an-cap an oxymoron and a made up thing to make upholders of the status quo feel like rebels.
All of that is certainly true, but anarchism is also terminally incompatible with reality. With no government, there’s nothing stopping some goon from raising a private army, declaring himself emperor, and killing anyone who tries to argue. That’s how we ended up with governments in the first place.
I’ve had some long conversations with anarchists. Seems to boil down to “everyone should just be nice to each other.” Let me know how that works out with people who don’t want to be nice.
A basic understanding of anarchism is that it’s a belief that government is unnecessary, harmful, and should be abolished.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but it whatever it is, it clearly requires a non-basic understanding of anarchism, so why don’t you go ahead and educate me.
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Person I replied to is the one who mentioned two side (though I get the feeling you’re coming at this from the political compass point of view which is garbage in its own right).
As for your assessment - no tankies don’t count as leftists, but anarchists sure do. Or do you consider ancaps to be anarchists? Because that’s a whole other pile of wrong.
Either way, I’m seriously struggling to find the point of your reply.
Ancaps consider themselves to be anarchists. It’s right there in the name.
Right, and hitler called himself a socialist, that didn’t actually make him one (feel free to read my discussion with op bellow where we go in to exactly this).
Anyone with even a basic understanding of anarchism will tell you that capitalism is terminally incompatible with it, making an-cap an oxymoron and a made up thing to make upholders of the status quo feel like rebels.
All of that is certainly true, but anarchism is also terminally incompatible with reality. With no government, there’s nothing stopping some goon from raising a private army, declaring himself emperor, and killing anyone who tries to argue. That’s how we ended up with governments in the first place.
You’re clearly not there yet.
Try reading up on what anarchism is actually about before you make such confidently incorrect assertions.
I’ve had some long conversations with anarchists. Seems to boil down to “everyone should just be nice to each other.” Let me know how that works out with people who don’t want to be nice.
A basic understanding of anarchism is that it’s a belief that government is unnecessary, harmful, and should be abolished.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but it whatever it is, it clearly requires a non-basic understanding of anarchism, so why don’t you go ahead and educate me.