A friend and I were recently discussing how spineless modern boycotts are.
We set a goddamn deadline for when the Reddit boycott ended. No wonder Spez just waited. Most people then just continued using the website. What a disgrace.
Imagine if after one week of the genocide in Gaza, the BDS efforts just stopped. A boycott must be indefinite. It should go on until demands are met.
Read my post again. I'm not asking about the shining glorious utopia we're building. I'm asking about now.
Not much, but I am aware that some of it had to do with psychiatry.
Not really incarcerated, per se. And only a subset of the dangerous people.
If someone commits murder in a fit of rage and regrets it afterwards, they would not need any obligation or coercion to undergo psychiatric treatment.
I'm not talking about an anarchist society. I'm asking what we should do now, as anarchists in a statist society.
It's Bolshevism that tries to blame every issue with the USSR on Stalin while ignoring that many of the structures that eventually led to Stalinism were present earlier on, when Trotsky and Lenin were at the helm. As a consequence, non-Leninist socialists, such as anarchists and autonomists, tend to dislike Trotsky and as a consequence Trotskyists.
For further reading on the anarchist position: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/iain-mckay-the-bureaucracy-in-exile
The Stalinists, in turn, view Trotsky as effectively sabotaging the revolutionary movement by sowing division and opposition to the vanguard.
Various sides heavily dislike the campism and entryism, and love of front groups prevalent among Trotskyist organisations.
Because the alternatives are:
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Prison
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Execution
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Exile, which offloads your problem to some other community
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Letting someone who is a danger to themselves and others continue to be a danger
Question regarding behavior in modern society
We anarchists are generally averse to cooperating with the police, for very good reasons. However, as I understand it, at times the only real way to protect the community in the society we currently live in seems to be talking with the pigs.
Suppose you believe yourself to have evidence incriminating a serial killer. In an anarchistic society the serial killer could be sent to the psych ward and dealt with humanely. But what about the modern day? Do you turn over the evidence to the police?
This question has been bothering me for about 3 days now. It was provoked by learning about Aufhebengate. It made me wonder under what circumstances snitching is justifiable.
Every day I find a new reason to hate the US government.
They infiltrated vegan potlucks?!
My guess is that this is a Cold War era map.
Orwell Mag Review Rule
Text appears to be scanned. Scanning leaves much to be desired. Text itself is good.
Least Racist Nationalist Rule
Translation: At Duartians United [name of the account] we propose a law that sterilizes every foreign woman that has a baby in the Dominican Republic after her first birth in the country. This measure will only apply to foreigners and not Dominicans. Do you think that some lawmaker of the DR...
The grim reality is that most people here think like this person.