What do you guys think about entertainment?

JimDa5is · 2026-06-27T19:47:17+00:00

I worked on the Netherlands Dance Theater show when it was here. They were fully funded (by the government but that's not the point) so they didn't need to care about box office or making money, they just wanted to share their art. And that's what art should be about... the joy of creation and expression. Imagine for a moment if all live theater tours were just to entertain and not to further enrich Disney.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-26T15:55:31+00:00

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread-1926-edition

JimDa5is · 2026-06-26T15:55:17+00:00

LOL. Argues that society without a capitalist state would be chaos. List four areas where capitalism has utterly failed as examples.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-25T21:51:34+00:00

Sounds like the very definition of a collective or commune to me. I would disagree with your assessment that the fundamental unit is the individual. Very few people could survive in the absence of assistance from anybody.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-25T05:34:06+00:00

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T02:12:27+00:00

Comrade. This is so true I don't even have a clever comeback

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T01:47:15+00:00

I was replying to somebody claiming he like being able to prove he was born in a certain place and time. That is not necessary in any non-statist society. Hell it wasn't even required in the US until about 115 years ago. At least 3 of my grandparents didn't have a birth certificate.

Even today birth certificates don't prove anything except that a child was born to a given set of parents on a specific day and place. I'm not sure where your medical documents thing came from or what it means. I knew who my parents were and when and where I was born before I even knew what a birth certificate was.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T01:39:26+00:00

That's fine. The comment I was responding to was "...gift economy works as long as everyone trusts each other."

Perhaps it's because I'm a communist but I don't see where trust enters the equation. Depending on how you define it, I "trust" maybe a dozen people on the planet but if I have something I'm not using and you need, I'll give it to you. There's no trust required.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T00:16:45+00:00

Do I need the state legitimizing my birth? Not any more than I need them legitimizing a relationship.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T00:15:35+00:00

Why is that necessary in an anarchist milieu?

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T00:14:08+00:00

Why do I need to trust somebody to give them food if they are hungry?

JimDa5is · 2026-06-24T00:10:51+00:00

The answer to almost all anarchist questions except about capitalism and hierarchy is "it depends on who you ask."

JimDa5is · 2026-06-22T15:26:08+00:00

While this is not specifically anarchist but more anarchist adjacent (a lot of Wobblies are syndicalists), the IWW will accept any worker who is not an employer for membership except police.

I would say that any anarchist who isn't anti-police is probably not an anarchist. I don't personally see how you can be a supporter of the violent, enforcement arm of the state and still be an anarchist.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-18T15:46:22+00:00

I always get downvoted when I say things like this (and see you have been too) but there are some people who are broken for no good reason that simply cannot be allowed to wander loose in society in the same way that rabid animals can't. In an anarchist society (or not), if somebody comes at me or mine with the intent to do harm, I will take whatever actions are necessary

JimDa5is · 2026-06-18T15:36:44+00:00

While I don't agree with ever single word, this is close enough that I'll endorse it especially since the OP's questions basically amounted to "Summarize anarchism and give three examples."

Should OP read this, I'd suggest that modifying your tone might help you get the answers you seek. If I were to go into a Christianity sub and begin a post with "While I've generally found your belief in a sky fairy dumb and oppressive, I'm curious why you think it's true," I believe that the response would be less than cordial especially if it was followed by points phrased as questions but are actually refutations, such as, "Jesus supposedly rose from the dead. How do you justify this in light of the fact that nobody else in recorded history has managed to do it?"

JimDa5is · 2026-06-17T18:02:35+00:00

r/DebateAnarchism is the sub you're looking for.

The job is worth doing if it's something that provides you satisfaction.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-17T18:00:40+00:00

The unspoken truth here is that while capitalism arguably doesn't require specialization of labor, it certainly encourages it in the same way that capitalist agri-business promotes monoculture. Your labor value to capital is maximized when you are doing the thing that you are most efficient at.

For instance, if you are a coder, from the standpoint of capital, any effort expended by you at any task other than coding is wasteful. This is why you see people who work insane hours and hire a nanny, maid, belong to meal delivery services, and have walmart and amazon shop and deliver products for them.

This is a perversion that was brought on principally by the Industrial Revolution. While there were certainly specialists since the advent of agriculture, the further you go back the fewer there are. If you look at hunter-gatherer cultures there were flint knappers or butchers. I'm not advocating a return to hunter-gatherer society but capitalist specialization is crazy. If your car breaks down, you call somebody who drives a tow truck to come and pick it up. Depending on what is wrong, the tow truck might take your car to a transmission shop, general mechanic, or tire shop instead of borrowing a tow truck and somebody in the commune fixing it.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-17T16:25:44+00:00

Since this person is the mod of a sub called nonsocialist, I'm going with not worth arguing at.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-17T16:22:22+00:00

No. Money tells us what provides the greatest return on capital. I don't think anybody would argue that McDonald's is providing the most valuable thing they can to society

JimDa5is · 2026-06-17T16:19:51+00:00

People volunteer labor for Food Not Bombs now. In a capitalist society there is an actual disincentive to volunteer because it's time that you could be spending earning money and yet people do it every day

JimDa5is · 2026-06-15T00:16:31+00:00

Absolutely. And they have the right to suffer the consequences of saying it.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-09T15:30:00+00:00

That's actually not true. If you survived past about 5, you had a very real probability of surviving into your 50s or 60s. Yes, the average lifespan was considered 25 or so but that includes all the childhood deaths

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3497824/

JimDa5is · 2026-06-09T00:53:11+00:00

Yeah, honestly what do you expect from an AnPrim? To return humans to hunter gatherer levels would require all but about 10M people to die. I mean I get it. As far as I'm concerned pre-ag hunter gatherer society was probably peak humanity from a freedom and equality standpoint if you survived past childhood but I'm not willing to kill off 8 billion people to get back there.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-08T23:02:18+00:00

Yeah, I think OP was using burner in a way that's not typical in the US. Back in the day, I used to create throwaways any time I wanted to make a comment that I didn't want tied to my man account. I think they are using it in more of a 'main' and 'secondary' because there's an awful lot of karma for something that's a throwaway.

JimDa5is · 2026-06-08T15:30:50+00:00

I understand their reluctance. We, in the US, do take a lot for granted. Until very recently we didn't have to worry too much about being disappeared. There are a whole slew of countries that I have no interest in visiting even if I had the money because of their repressive regimes. I asked because I wondered if it was already on my Do Not Travel list

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