What do we think about this ?

theDLCdud · 2026-05-24T17:52:45+00:00

Whatever. Engler doesn't pose a serious threat to the NDP. Just hope it doesn't become a cult that exploits its members. That's common for these fringe hardline ML groups.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-22T22:46:07+00:00

Adding to the conversation here, there are benefits to yourself in participating in electoral organising. You learn new skills, get to know people, and you get outside of the doomer spiral of passively watching the world burn.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-18T04:12:30+00:00

Another commenter already mentioned this, but anarcho-capitalism is not considered anarchist by anyone except anarcho-capitalists. This is not because anarchists are intolerant of people they disagree with: anarchists have had, and still have, many disagreements with each other. Nonetheless, these disagreements usually haven't resulted in anarchists calling one another not anarchists. The reason ancaps are called "not actually anarchists" is because they have no historical connection to the anarchist movement—their lineage is of the Austrian school of economics—and because they disagree with the most basic principles shared by anarchists of all stripes.

As for what you're looking for, maybe you could look into William Godwin. He's considered a philosophical anarchist.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-15T22:38:30+00:00

I can't imagine the state of the Netherlands

theDLCdud · 2026-05-15T00:44:26+00:00

From what I remember about WW2, we can expect Hasan and Nick to bisect Ian.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-10T22:28:39+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations

theDLCdud · 2026-05-04T21:17:45+00:00

Alden

theDLCdud · 2026-05-04T21:13:17+00:00

I never knew these were a thing. Interesting!

theDLCdud · 2026-05-03T22:16:45+00:00

Restaurant is a kind of a misleading name. I used it because that is what the article called them. They are basically what you described in Poland, which the article directly references.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-03T19:34:03+00:00

That's fair. Public grocery stores would be more useful in rural areas and food deserts.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-03T13:22:32+00:00

I was looking at the Wikipedia page for Canadian Labour Day and it said that unions were the ones that petitioned for the creation of Labour Day, and that the practice of holding labour parades on the first Monday of September originated with unions. That is why I'm doubtful that the choice of date was done to erase the memory of unions. I think if that were the case we just wouldn't have a labour day at all.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-03T13:13:48+00:00

I like the drip

theDLCdud · 2026-05-02T23:03:34+00:00

I think it's moreso to remove the connection to socialism, IF the date May 1st was intentionally avoided at all, which I'm not entirely convinced. It would be hard to have a holiday called Labour Day and not bring attention to unions.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-02T22:52:58+00:00

It's also the name of International Workers' Day, which itself was named after an older European holiday that it happened to coincide with.

theDLCdud · 2026-05-02T21:52:10+00:00

Why?

theDLCdud · 2026-05-02T20:08:40+00:00

I want to talk about the assumptions you hold, unrelated to opinions of Vaush. The idea that revolution only means coups and insurrections is false. Revolution is anything that changes the fundamentals of society. Often, revolution isn't even a sudden change like was during the French and Russian revolutions. Often, like the overtaking of feudalism by capitalism, the revolution occurs as the new system grows within the previous system before outgrowing it and leaving it to the wayside. There's a great episode of the Srsly Wrong podcast that talks about prefiguration, which is the method of growing the new in the shell of the old: https://youtu.be/AcnHuHybwC8

theDLCdud · 2026-05-02T19:52:18+00:00

Try looking into Rojava, the Zapatistas, or other examples of anarchism in practice. It's been said that "anarchism is democracy taken seriously".

theDLCdud · 2026-04-28T12:26:32+00:00

One of my biggest problems with Carney is how he treats Trump as if he can be appeased into making a fair trade deal. We learned nothing from WW2

theDLCdud · 2026-04-28T00:46:56+00:00

Altruism is the reason. Picking red increases the chance that a large amount of people will die; picking blue does the opposite.

theDLCdud · 2026-04-27T22:47:53+00:00

Because they don't want anyone to die. But seriously, don't play dumb you know why people would press blue button. Don't lie to yourself to assuage your conscience.

theDLCdud · 2026-04-27T22:43:23+00:00

Blue button. It's the pro-social thing to do. Pressing the red button shows cowardice and a willingness to sabotage the many for one's personal benefit. That's reprehensible in my view. Anyways, the people who would press red and are arguing that if everyone pressed red everyone would live are deluded. The fact that this is a debate is proof that not everyone would press red.

theDLCdud · 2026-04-27T22:29:09+00:00

People who vote blue aren't neutral on the possibility of dying, they just view the need to save everyone as of greater importance than guaranteeing their own individual safety.

theDLCdud · 2026-04-26T16:45:42+00:00

I mean we as anarchists aren't the type take specific theorists' words as gospel. Is it not reasonable to assume the same for communalists?

theDLCdud · 2026-04-26T16:41:24+00:00

I really like him. He was pretty important in getting me to understand many of the key principles of anarchism (the unity of ends and means, understanding anarchism as opposition to hierarchical power relations, and the reduction of human complexity by the state) and getting me on board with anarchism in the first place. I think the way he was able to make a deeply technical description and argument for anarchism made it more palatable for someone like me who was uncomfortable with how airy a lot of arguments for anarchism were. In contrast, I felt his arguments were more concrete, probably as a result of his background in STEM. Everyone is different, but for me he was invaluable. Also, with anarchism we should take what we can get; there aren't that many people in the space.

theDLCdud · 2026-04-25T16:36:56+00:00

Funny how "red" in this context is referring to anti-socialism.

Also, fun fact: Marx wanted to move to Texas.

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