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[Anonymous No.14244238]

De-radicalisation

Who else has been radicalised into far right beliefs by toxic cult chambers of the internet, like /pol/, and is now working on de-radicalising?

What books have helped you gain clarity of mind?

For me it was pic related. The last bastion of my right wing ideology was >but muh free markets are the most efficient, >duh left will make the sky fall down and the economy crash. Reading Conquest of Bread helped me realise that capitalism was far from the most efficient system out there and that it efficiently provides only for capital and not for the majority of people. I'm not sure I'm an anarchist, probably just a generic leftie, but I certainly recommend this book as a starting point.

[Anonymous No.14244254]

What's the point of having political views?

[Anonymous No.14244321]

>>14244254
Political views are how you make sense of the world

[Anonymous No.14244328]

>>14244254
read carl schmitt

[Anonymous No.14244338]

>>14244238
>de-radicalisation
>switches to an equally radical ideology
Name a bigger sign that someone is a loser than this, organically evolving into communism or fascism or traditionalism or anarchism or whatever far-X ideology is worlds different to just jumping from extreme to extreme because you can't admit you don't fit in anywhere.
Unironically never gonna make it.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244342]

>>14244238
>it efficiently provides only for capital and not for the majority of people.
Or any other living things. It’s just a madness.

>>14244254
Since there is no inherent meaning in life, only an array of purposes, men have taken up ideas into their heads. For various reasons we developed a ruling class and a ruled class. What is the point of that indeed.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244355]

>>14244338
>switches to an equally radical ideology
He’s figuring things out. What are you? A radical centrist? Radical NPCism?
You’ve unironically not made it. Enjoy stasis.

[Anonymous No.14244365]

>>14244321
Politics has little to no impact on my daily life.

>>14244328
Why?

[Anonymous No.14244372]

>>14244238
This book is one of the most dated things I have ever read, its hilarious reading it with the hindsight of what happened in the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.14244382]

>>14244338
God forbid someone thinks and grows. I hope the ground beneath your feet fissures and you tumble into a sulfuric chasm to be marmaladed between the holy tectonics swallowing you like a bitter medicine. After enough eons, your gristle and gobs will petrify, a smear in life and death. One can only pray that a serendipitous excavation of your entombmemt can, once polished and finished, serve the distant children of >>14244238 as a coffee table on which to invite female guests to rest their beverages and bare feet.

[Anonymous No.14244402]

>>14244238
Just switch over to monarchism as I did. It's so aesthetic and you can still reject the world which liberalism has created.

>>14244355
Anything which challenges the status quo is "radical".

[Anonymous No.14244416]

>>14244365
No impact? I highly doubt that. You work for some shareholder 40 hours a week, 50 years of your life. Thats political. And internally, whether you believe that everyone deserves basic rights and equal standards impacts your behaviour significantly to believing in a hierarchy and superiority of some people to others.

>>14244338
I haven't switched to any ideology yet, I've just stopped supporting capitalism, which is a fully clear minded and rational conclusion to draw. Its right wing and conservatism that relies on boogaloo mysticism to keep people enthralled, and coming up with reasons to defend a brutal hierarchy of people is what Id call radical.

[Anonymous No.14244420]

>>14244342
Tell me how you envisage an anarchist society coming about and functioning, butters?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244442]

>>14244420
I can describe how it functions well. I can only suggest ways it can come about. The statists may just succeed in killing us all off if we don’t find some way to bring ourselves to our own powers.

[Anonymous No.14244444]

>>14244416
>ou work for some shareholder 40 hours a week, 50 years of your life. Thats political.

Not really. And even so, there's nothing I can do about it.

>whether you believe that everyone deserves basic rights and equal standards impacts your behaviour significantly

Also, not really. Behavior is more affected by the need to conform to social norms than my opinions.

How I feel about the systems around is me irrelevant. They simply are, and I must make dealings.

[Anonymous No.14244449]

>>14244442
>I can describe how it functions well. I can only suggest ways it can come about.
Well go on

[Anonymous No.14244457]

>>14244444
theres a huge difference between being a battered wife that believes you are getting what you deserve and being a battered wife that knows she is being treated unjustly.

[Anonymous No.14244458]

>>14244238
What the fuck are you talking about? You think Nazis believed in muh free markets? Being a libertarian doesn't make you "far right". SAGE

[Anonymous No.14244461]

>>14244442

[Anonymous No.14244462]

>>14244416

>only the rightwing relies on irrationality

How many genders are there again and do you think a single Democratic candidate for president would say, on record, that there are biological differences between men and women.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244475]

>>14244444
Conformity is a political stance. It isn’t radical, of course. It is, in this case, this decaying status quo, a degeneracy.
Nice get.

>>14244449
... but I’m le tired.

[Anonymous No.14244480]

do you have a goodreads account? >>14244442

[Anonymous No.14244479]

>>14244475
I'm only going to assume you can't butters. A shame, I was willing to be converted.

[Anonymous No.14244484]

>>14244462
Not even worth engaging with

>>14244458
Libertarianism is an illusion. You think you're being nice and peaceful by only going after direct violence but you fail to acknowledge that you're defending an unjust and violent system, which is capitalism.

[Anonymous No.14244512]

>>14244338
Based even if that's not OP's situation.
Waaay to many pinko ex-Trumptards jumping on the edge train, and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.14244523]

>>14244342
> Yesterday: "I've only ever mentioned Kroptokin once."
Fuck you butters.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244528]

>>14244479
I have sperged out before on occasion.
I’ll do something ITT later
>>14244480
Nope.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244535]

>>14244523
That was a misunderstanding and you’re not even representing it right. Pshh
I should be napping

[Anonymous No.14244541]

>>14244238
Jordan Peterson

[Anonymous No.14244557]

>>14244528
>I’ll do something ITT later
I'll be back in 12 hours.

[Anonymous No.14244560]

>>14244484

You won't engage with me because I'm right. The right may have had to make room, but the left has their own seat on the anti-science bench. They deny biology, anthropology, and psychology.

[Anonymous No.14244573]

>>14244238

I'm coming to the viewpoint that the modern era, where the labor of individual human beings is continuously being devalued at unsustainable rates, might present an insurmountable obstacle to both capitalist and communist economic models.

[Anonymous No.14244575]

>>14244457
No there isn't.

>>14244475
Only if you consider all human interactions to be political.

[Anonymous No.14244578]

>>14244535
Love you butters, goodnight.

[Anonymous No.14244587]

>>14244238
I unironically thought this said conquest of the beard.

[Anonymous No.14244591]

>>14244342

>for various reasons

What is "the testing ground of spontaneous organization of human collectives for mutual benefit against brutal reality, yielding time and time again over history the development of hierarchies in which the strongest or most competent come to lead"?

[Anonymous No.14244601]

The only leftists I can respect are the most cynical of Marxist rationalists. The rest all rely on giving human life far more value than it deserves. It’s vulgar sentimentalism and nothing more.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244646]

>>14244575
The words origin of course is “polis”, so yes, something like that.

>>14244601
It’s “vulgar” to you to want to see humanity grow the fuck up? Spineless bootlicker

[Anonymous No.14244664]

>believing in free markets makes you a right wing radical
You were a larper then and are a larper now

[Anonymous No.14244677]

>>14244646
>It’s “vulgar” to you to want to see humanity grow the fuck up? Spineless bootlicker
>not creating a system where all decent people are the boot
Social systems are infinitely more valuable than any human life and the lie that is the Human community.

[Anonymous No.14244688]

>>14244238
>was far from the most efficient system out there and that it efficiently provides only for capital and not for the majority of people

because you are a brainlet and anyone who thinks like you is a brainlet who can`t spend more in a non-walmart store.
The basis of your enlightment is flawed and i know you wont accept it because humans are retarded and stubborn.

t. guy who spends more in his local markets from a country where small business can go toe to toe with the big guys
It won`t last tho...people think like you and they want to save a few dollars (two of them are a Swedish and a Canadian international business LMAO)

[Anonymous No.14244717]

>>14244646
>The words origin of course is “polis”, so yes, something like that.
The ideologue is right. We’ve been living in the political shadow of Aristotle for a good 2000 something something years.

As a sidenote butter. Do you know why modern anarchist refer to themselves as anarchists. The word far predates the actual political thought and you guys copping it just makes you have to answer the whole “we don’t believe in no hierarchies, just unnecessary ones” shtick every 5 seconds. Wouldnt “reductionist” or something be a more accurate term?

[Anonymous No.14244733]

Read Understanding Power by Chomsky. That'll cure you of any far right views and solidify your beliefs in leftist views.

[Anonymous No.14244773]

>>14244733
I’ve read a good amount of his political work, and it hasn’t changed my mind. I tend to find his analysis interesting, but I disagree with pretty much any normative claim he makes.

[Anonymous No.14244774]

>>14244238
Opposite for me. Used to be an anarchist in my teenage years and now I'm an absolute monarchist. There was no one book that precipitated the change, rather a broard survey of the history of governance and philosophy. Special attention was given to mimetic theory and power analysis however.

[Hermit Thrush No.14244808]

>>14244677

What does your response even mean?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14244906]

>>14244717
The libertarian-socialist society looks like everyone is in charge, but feels like no one is. We would prefer it that way. I would think.

>>14244808
I think he wants robot fascism

[Anonymous No.14244955]

>>14244254
So you have something to sound important with on social media

[Anonymous No.14244959]

>>14244461
is this shopped this bitch looks fucked up

[Anonymous No.14244962]

>>14244238
>he's not a right wing anticapitalist
i am lmaoing my ass of at your life rn

[Anonymous No.14244988]

>>14244906
>I think he wants robot fascism
Those people tend to have a rather reductive view of technology even if they are right in wanting to exalt technology over the human existence. They tend to ignore that social creation is better suited to the transcended of “humanity” than machines alone are.

[Anonymous No.14244995]

>>14244962
>right wing anticapitalist
An oxymoron.

[Anonymous No.14245024]

>>14244995
>what is monarchism
>what is fascism
>what is prussian socialism
>what is distributism
Brainlet you are.

[Anonymous No.14245032]

>>14245024
Don’t argue with these total brainlets, they still believe in the retarded left-right spectrum where the right is capitalism and the Left is Marxism and there is no other choice

[Anonymous No.14245064]

>>14245024
>fascism
tfw fascism is not capitalism

[Anonymous No.14245074]

>>14245064
Yes.

[Anonymous No.14245087]

I was radical way before I got on line newfag.

[Anonymous No.14245104]

I hate materialists so fucking much guys

[Anonymous No.14245112]

>>14244254
Tricks you into thinking you matter.

[Anonymous No.14245115]

>>14244773
You have any specific examples you're thinking of? I'm always interested to see why people might reject certain claims by chomsky since I find everything he says to be so obvious.

[Anonymous No.14245118]

>>14244338
Funnily enough, many of the original fascists were exactly like that.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14245126]

>>14245024
All those use money and hierarchies.
Capitalism and pre-capitalism systems aren’t what the “left” are aiming for. Just admit it. You just want to fix capitalism.

The only “rightwing” anti capitalists I can conceive of are Ted K sorts of an-prims. But I haven’t read his thing

[Anonymous No.14245142]

>>14245126
You have a narrow (i.e. liberal) conceptualization of the poltical spectrum. Read pic related. Money and hierarchies aren't "things" but rather moral principles. They are found everywhere, together, across cultures and across time.

[Anonymous No.14245167]

>>14244238
Not sure what sort of reception you expected posting this here but I'm happy for you comrade.

[Anonymous No.14245183]

>>14244560
According to your 4th grade understanding of science they do. The debate about gender is first and foremost a philosophical one, not something that can be solved by conflating terms and mindlessly repeating dead helicopter jokes.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14245198]

>>14245142
>moral principles

We can do better.

[Anonymous No.14245234]

>>14245198
Are you daft? Graeber isn't making a prescriptive claim. He's simply noting that hierarchy, exchange and indeed communsim are universally observed, society-guiding moral principles. It is only within this liberal paradigm that we find ourselves that they are thought of as incompatible.

[Anonymous No.14245260]

>>14244774
>fully automated egosexual reclusion

This but unironically.

[Anonymous No.14245285]

>>14244238
Radicalizing into the other polar extreme is not deradicalizing.

Why not take the pragmatic pill and just stop trying to preconceive the world and experiment with what works and doesn't in your own life and observation of others around you?

Why do you need an ideology and criticism to think for you?

[Anonymous No.14245298]

>>14244254
>>14245112
It's mostly just another form of impotent consumerism.

[Anonymous No.14245670]

>>14245234
>exchange
I think that the book argues that sharing is more universal than exchange.

[Anonymous No.14245678]

>>14244238
> 'free markets' are right wing ideolog
Are you utterly mad? Are you retarded? What next, calling Ayn Rand a """conservative"""?

[Anonymous No.14245690]

>>14245285
>falling for the pragmatism meme
im so glad that the economic global downfall is making all righties and centrists fucking wrong about everything

[Anonymous No.14245709]

>Who else has been radicalised into far right beliefs by toxic cult chambers of the internet, like /pol/, and is now working on de-radicalising?

Yes, though it is still something I am struggling with. There are days when I seem to be doing well but ill make the mistake of spending too much on the internet or global news and I wind up with that same feeling of anger and despair that I was trying to escape from.

>What books have helped you gain clarity of mind?
To be really honest none, though reading quality apolitical fiction and religious texts got me away from reading political works which helped calm things down even it it was ultimately escapism.

I deeply regret ever having an interest in politics, Im just not intelligent and emotionally mature enough to deal with this material.

[Anonymous No.14245716]

>>14245183
If you consider blind pandering philosophy

[Anonymous No.14245750]

>>14244238
You're heavily loading your language with emotional, subjective language and un-examined assumptions based on feelings.

Pretending that things which make you uncomfortable are not true does not make them false. Pushing reality away with words like "toxic" does not insulate you from its ravages. If that's what you mean by "de-radicalising" then you're defining "radical" as "rational."

[Hermit Thrush No.14246027]

>>14245183

And the second part of my question?

[Anonymous No.14246077]

>>14244238
>De-radicalisation
Lmao how does it feel being a boomer faggot
I'm far right, and the only other people I can tolerate are far left. I can't comprehend how anyone can be in the centre for any reason other than greed

[Anonymous No.14246095]

>last bastion of my right wing ideology was >but muh free markets are the most efficient,
>left will make the sky fall down and the economy crash.
>helped me realise that capitalism was far from the most efficient system out there and that it efficiently provides only for capital and not for the majority of people.

So you were a useful idiot for Jews, and you learned about how usury is bad. How'd you get from that to advocating for utopian internationalist terrorism (leftism)? You know anticapitalism is one of the most significant elements of the right wing?

[Anonymous No.14246126]

>>14246095
His concern for market efficiency, especially how he conceives of it, demonstrates an internalization of leftist values and conceptions or politics.

There's no need to go blaming the Jews for everything.

[Anonymous No.14246135]

>>14246126
>There's no need to go blaming the Jews for everything.


"Judaism has held its own alongside Christianity, not only as religious criticism of Christianity, not only as the embodiment of doubt in the religious derivation of Christianity, but equally because the practical Jewish spirit, Judaism, has maintained itself and even attained its highest development in Christian society. The Jew, who exists as a distinct member of civil society, is only a particular manifestation of the Judaism of civil society.

Judaism continues to exist not in spite of history, but owing to history.

The Jew is perpetually created by civil society from its own entrails.

What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion? Practical need, egoism.

The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality the polytheism of the many needs, a polytheism which makes even the lavatory an object of divine law. Practical need, egoism, is the principle of civil society, and as such appears in pure form as soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state. The god of practical need and self-interest is money.

...

The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange."

[Anonymous No.14246152]

>>14244238
Far left is just as retarded as far right, BTW.

[Anonymous No.14246237]

>>14244238
>Reading Conquest of Bread helped me realise that capitalism was far from the most efficient system out there and that it efficiently provides only for capital and not for the majority of people.
Capitalism is the single greatest force for lifting people out of poverty in human history. The facts on that could not be clearer.

[Anonymous No.14246247]

>>14244238
>anti-capitalism
>somehow the opposite of the far right
It doesn't matter what you read because you know nothing about history. Hitler's entire ideology was a reaction against capitalism, what do you think NAZI stands for? Why do you think he was always going on about the international bankers? Are you a complete simpleton?

[Anonymous No.14246255]

>>14244238
>The last bastion of my right wing ideology was >but muh free markets are the most efficient
You could have studied and understood the limits of markets, the mismatches they have with human needs, and the ways they can be manipulate at the expense of the collectivity.
But no, you had to read some communist drivel that never was accurate and learn nothing.

[Anonymous No.14246304]

>>14244342
As always I admire your taste in books and knowledge of classical history, yet would never invite you over for a dinner party due to your atrocious personality.

[Anonymous No.14246334]

>>14244238
There's nothing "far right" or "radical" about loving and appreciating your own people.
>What books have helped you gain clarity of mind?
Good question. I'm starting Satre's Anti-Semite and Jew soon and hopefully I can unfuck myself a bit in this regard. If anyone else has any other recs (re:antisemitism/JQ) that'd be appreciated.
>The last bastion of my right wing ideology was >but muh free markets are the most efficient, >duh left will make the sky fall down and the economy crash.
Literally nobody on /pol/ is talking about markets.

[Anonymous No.14246337]

>>14244238
>What books have helped you gain clarity of mind?
industrial society and its future

[Anonymous No.14246361]

I agree with leftists on many things but their weird xenophilia tendencies and self hating nature is questionable

[Anonymous No.14246435]

>>14246361
>I agree with leftists on many things but their weird xenophilia tendencies and self hating nature is questionable
+1

[Anonymous No.14246444]

>>14246361
Don't forget their hatred of families and obsession with sexual hedonism for some weird reason

[Anonymous No.14246487]

>>14246361

it's because none of them are reading lasch which is exactly what they need to be doing

[Hermit Thrush No.14246491]

>>14246435
>>14246361

The average person with a progressive mindset can't recognize that we've likely reached the end of progress, at least insofar as creating a pragmatically equal society before the law regarding race and sex (not social class, because it's demonstrable that the rich and poor are held to different standards). It also doesn't help that people living in first world nations are absolutely and in large part willfully ignorant of how our developed systems of affluence insulate us from the inherent suffering of existence that we've evolved to combat. At the turn of the 19th century, 60% of people died before the age of 17. That's a statistical condition that doesn't exist anywhere on the planet now. When I went to a friend's wedding in August and reunited with 100% of my childhood friends, that would have been so anomalous as to have been impossible in the time of my gransfather's grandfather.

tl;de We have it so easy it is driving us insane. We're piloting the biological machinery of Nature's prize fighter, the gold medalist physiology and psychology of evolution, and we first worlders have no opponent in the arena. We're Saitama.

[Anonymous No.14246492]

>>14244512
We jump to radicalisation because liberalism / conservatism doesn't provide answers. That's why the far right is appealing to lots of vulnerable people who are suffering, but liberalism can't provide answers for why they are suffering. There is no liberal regime that has managed to successfully resist fascism. Shattering the illusion and understanding leftist theory is the only anti-dote.

[Anonymous No.14246501]

>>14246334
>claims to love own people
>doesn't have international workers solidarity

Nationalism / racism is an illusion used to divide and conquer.

>>14246361
You don't understand sexual liberation then. Traditional sex roles are internalisations of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.14246556]

the bible and dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.14246578]

>>14244959
It's a man in makeup

[Hermit Thrush No.14246596]

>>14246501

In-group preference is evolutionarily ingrained and predates humanity as a species. I agree that "nationality" and "race" are social construct in terms of historical fluidity (e.g. "whiteness" being a modern concept that has excluded Italians or the Irish, something like a Japanese national identity carrying basically zero - heh - weight until the Meiji Restoration) but such identity markers are extrapolated because the tendency to do so is inherent in human psychology, same as a chimp or a wolf. So long as there is a basic heterogeneity of "self" and "others", the human animal is predisposed to classifying people around them to varying degrees of "like" and "unlike". You can unlearn and combat this tendency, sure, but it's harder for the average intellect if not impossible. The same thing is true of traditional gender roles (and I use "gender" intentionally, because a state of nature enforces a binary expression of male/female types; a calf with two heads is an outlier). To say that discrimination, in terms of judgment (not prejudicial animosity), and the male/female duality are attributable to any one or set of human ideologies is willful obliviousness of science and millions of years of evolution.

[Hermit Thrush No.14246622]

>>14246596

Sorry. To clarify "harder if not impossible to totally eliminate". I do believe that the human intellect, with proper education and upbringing, can override the impulses of animal psychology (see, uh, civilization). I don't want to come off as saying "these things are immutable so don't bother trying" because our capacity to strive for an ideal bettering the individual is the best thing about being a human.

[Anonymous No.14246625]

>>14246596
Civilisation was never about following our animal instinct though. Its logically not strategic for various in-groups to wage eternal war on each other till humanity wipes itself out. Have autonomous tribes/communities but don't oppress your fellow man.

[Anonymous No.14246632]

I was clear pilled by Moldbug

[Hermit Thrush No.14246642]

>>14246625

Yeah, I was clarifying myself >>14246622
while you were writing this, because I realized I came off as overly fatalistic about Man the Insect vs. Man the Individual. I'm just saying to ascribe the existence of bigotry or social roles wholesale to any -ism is boxing at the shadow cast by aspects of human psychology. You have to face the object of contention to deal with it.

[Anonymous No.14246698]

>>14246237
That is nothing new even Marx recognized that.

[Anonymous No.14246766]

[Anonymous No.14246780]

>>14244677
A contradiction, to be sure.

[Anonymous No.14246789]

>>14246501
>doesn't have international workers solidarity
Not a thing mate. I dont give a shit about chinese farmers like how they dont give a shit about retail workers like me, and thats fine. We live on opposite sides of the world and we have nothing in common besides we both work, which really isnt anything in common at all. I have solidarity with my family because they share my blood, everything grows out from their with ethnicity then race then species then all living things. Sure I work like how someone in china might, but i also might work how a fucking ant might so it means nothing to me, ive interacted with spics, nigs and chinks and i know from that alone were different and no occupation will change that. Now, we dont gotta hate eachother but rather we should respect each others peoples, histories and cultures while sticking to our own business and working together on things that require international cooperation, not subject ourselves to the global favela weve been slowly growing into.

[Anonymous No.14246827]

>>14246625
To deny nature is also folly, weve had Inter-nation warfare and conflict since we began but if we keep going the way we are humanity will kill itself from within, it will be nothing but eternal internal strife between ethnic groups or the obliteration of all that makes humans unique in favor of a worthless mono-culture that produces only garbage and waste. Id prefer our people go out with the bang then become a society of roaches, ever alive but never truly living.

[Anonymous No.14246833]

>>14246492
Liberalism tells them their suffering is not real if they are white, and that if they persist in claiming to suffer they are racist monsters who deserve what ever happens to them.
Fuck that. It is okay to be white.

[Anonymous No.14246838]

>>14244238
>Don't be radical
Freedom is more radical than any other position, and always will be.

[Anonymous No.14246844]

[Anonymous No.14246847]

>>14246766
Pig socialism is real, but that doesn't mean all socialist are pigs.

[Anonymous No.14246849]

[Anonymous No.14246851]

>>14246361
Those people would be right wing if right wingers would own the media. They don't have convictions, they repeat what they've been fed. We are somewhat free from that trap because we digest conflicting information and numerous philosophical and metaphysical positions for breakfast. Though we do tend to stagnate to our world view around the age of 30.

[Anonymous No.14246866]

>>14246789
> I dont give a shit about chinese farmers like how they dont give a shit about retail workers like me
A shame, because you're both victims of one economic system. Those barely paid chinese farmers grow soya beans which feed cattle which are made into burgers that you sell as a retail worker, and both of your labours are exploited to make the owner of it all rich. Its in your strategic interest to overthrow this wageslavery and help each other be liberated, and afterwards you may live and let live.

[Hermit Thrush No.14246868]

>>14246827

The strangest thing to me about the contemporary left is how they speak out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to human nature vs. social convention/engineering. They deride traditionalists and conservatives as ignorant science deniers and prudes (valid at times!) when it comes to creationism or sexual liberation or climate change, but absolutely refuse to entertain that evolution might have a role "above the neck" when it comes to trying to hammer out a utopia that takes no account of human nature.

[Anonymous No.14246870]

>>14245709
I get you. I see the absurdity of the higher eschlons of popular discourse and feel like reacting completely contradictory to spit it’s holier than though lense. But simple contrarianism is equally as bound to to the status quo and subject to the same mistakes that one is disatisfied with.

[Anonymous No.14246879]

>>14246833
Community & family are sources of happiness. Religion and nationalism aren't. Capitalism destroys the former and utilises the latter to pull wool over people's eyes. Also, if you are sincere about the suffering of white men, then you should 1. be criticising capitalism first and foremost as it is the main culprit in alienation, 2. have solidarity with people with even less fortune than you, such as minorities lower on the socio-economic ladder and the $1/day cocoa farmers that grow chocolate that you buy with 1st world wealth.

[Anonymous No.14246883]

>>14246833
The left has mastered the rhetoric of dismissal. They've developed an entire lexicon dedicated to ensuring there is no challenge to their dominance over discursive spaces. The extent that they've managed to dominate highly decentralized spaces honestly makes me cynical towards the idea that anarchism in it's truest form wouldn't be more invasive and totalitarian than any dictatorship.

[Anonymous No.14246886]

>>14246077
What if you are a relativist? I can kinda get the point of most well thought out viewpoints and they can often be reduced to essential disagreement in philosophy. Idealism or materialism, realism vs constructivism, dogmatism and in fact relativism. And then how those core thoughts are interpreted, so that even two different branches of the same idea may disagree.

[Anonymous No.14246902]

>>14246491
I think the rich/poor dichotomy is a useful one, but not completely accurate. Reach/poor simply describes fiscal holdings, while the more central descriptore is public prestige. One usually corellates with the other, but they are not technically one in the same.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14246909]

>>14246304
I’m actually nice and quiet. I write to a hostile audience here, and it shapes what you get.

>>14245670
Thank you.

>>14244479
>I was willing to be converted.
Convert from what though?
Simply put, we have crap people because of their crap lives which is a direct result of the crap system we’ve inherited and very much grown put of. “Why is the world so bad/evil/etc.?” 1. It works for some, 2. The rest are beholden to age old traditions and thought patterns. They work hard at nothing important so they can forget that they’re on a prison world. Changing it is so monumentally hard. It take far more than an individual or an army of individuals.... getting off track already and I don’t have anymore time

Feel like Invisible Man. L8r

[Anonymous No.14246921]

>>14246909

[Anonymous No.14246928]

>>14246879
This is why I find most anti-capitalists very tiring. Not because of their end goal of dismantling the general construct known as capitalism, but they tend to reduce things to simple dichotomy. Instead of using a scholarly or truthful words like “seems” or “tends” they go straight to the “are” and “is”, assuming the object.

For example, what differentiates nationalism from community or family? Could you not say it is an extension of both, describing difference distances of relation? Most communist states use some form of nationalism in their cause.

Statistic differences in terminology simply leads to lack of the ability to instill nuance.

[Anonymous No.14246938]

>>14244238
>Far right
>free market
I dont wanna pull the "but you never really were far right" card, but i cant see how anyone could ever have been on the far right and not realize that it's pretty hostile to free markets and laissez faire capitalism in general, with fascism wanting syndicalist economies and nazism wanting state run capitalism. Hostility to economic determinism is one of the most important defining characteristics of the far right, coupled with pro-hierarchical and anti-democratic views, coupled with a propensity for extreme violence. If you read any far right author, then you must have encountered these things. Schmitt, Heidegger, Spengler, Gentile, Sorel, etc. all ranted against free market capitalism.
Is this bait? Is this a /pol/ falseflag?

[Anonymous No.14246942]

>>14244646
>grow up
>revolt against authority, FUCK YOU DAD
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I DONT WANT ANY DAMNED VEGETABLES

[Hermit Thrush No.14246943]

As an aside to all in this thread: thank you for the quality of discussion in 100+ posts. /lit/, as arrogant and contrarian as it is on average, when it hits its ceiling provides a intellectual outlet I don't find elsewhere and has honestly improved me as a person. Now someone call me a faggot.

[Anonymous No.14246996]

>>14246909
>I write to a hostile audience here, and it shapes what you get.

I think you have good discourse skills, but your lack of an “ambivalent” persona or tact gets you more shit than you would otherwise. I don’t mean being nice or anything, you can be downright rude And no one will give two shits. But your inability, or unwillingness to engage in dynamic discourse. There are other anarchists who are more entertaining and blasé with their writing than you here. Of course you being a trip code doesn’t help. There are far worse posters on here, but they usually stay anonymous.

However, as an aggravative entity, you are effective.

[Anonymous No.14246997]

>>14246943
Hetero

[Anonymous No.14247001]

>>14244238
Economics are gay and don't mean shit, I used to care about them but now I could care less, but I am more redpilled than ever on the race question and Jew question.

[Anonymous No.14247025]

>>14246928
I think the problem is they fully believe that problems (or at least the problems they're willing to recognize as legitimate) amount to little more than lack of bodily comfort. It seems painfully reductive to me. They seem more like bete machine than human to me.

[Anonymous No.14247039]

>>14244238
why do people think supporting capitalism is right wing?

[Hermit Thrush No.14247054]

>>14247039

They can't divorce their interpretation of social policy, economic systems, beliefs on personal freedom/conduct, or religion/philosophy from a black or white, us or them, left or right duality. A two-dimensional ideological realm is easier to navigate, even if it's delusional.

[Anonymous No.14247150]

Will I be guranteed at least one braphog in the socialist future? If not whats the damn point

[Anonymous No.14247191]

>>14246909
>Convert from what though?
>Simply put, we have crap people because of their crap lives which is a direct result of the crap system we’ve inherited and very much grown put of. “Why is the world so bad/evil/etc.?” 1. It works for some, 2. The rest are beholden to age old traditions and thought patterns. They work hard at nothing important so they can forget that they’re on a prison world. Changing it is so monumentally hard. It take far more than an individual or an army of individuals.... getting off track already and I don’t have anymore time
This doesn't answer either of my questions and is scarcely above "edgy 15 year old" levels of insight. Surely you can do better than this, it's your fucking ideology for Christ sake, it's practically all you yammer on about here.

[Anonymous No.14247248]

>>14246237
For what purpose?

[Hermit Thrush No.14247280]

>>14246909

>beholden to age-old traditions and thought patterns

The equally negative counter-swing to reactionary traditionalism is this current paradigm of thoughtless revolutionary revisionism. Tradition is not by default bad; what we are handed down consists of things that work and things that do not work regarding mutually prosperous social organization (and some things that used to work but now no longer do). Dogma and superstition on as well as field-tested pragmatism or optimal practice both become unquestioned. if you accept it all without thought, you're a slave to it, but rejecting it all without question is just as ignorant.

[Anonymous No.14247450]

>>14247025
Agreed. I feel like it’s hard for people to disentangle their process from their end goal.

[Anonymous No.14247637]

>>14246886
It's literally the death drive vs the pleasure principal and the myriad ways they can manifest in different circumstances.

[Anonymous No.14247720]

Can't believe this thread is a- still up b- filled with people earnest-posting their gay little ideas while the engine of history marches on undeterred or abated.

[Anonymous No.14247924]

>>14244484
>>>14244462
>i have absolutely no way no dispel this so i will dismiss it as absurd, gaslighting these few sane people
Tard

[Anonymous No.14247953]

>>14247924

How have you responded except with ad hominem and denial? If all you have is greentext and insults, I done gotcha, my man.

[Anonymous No.14247967]

>>14244238
Communism and anarchism still can't give everyone bread for free. Capitalism makes it a lot easier to do so. When HK was a shit hole decades ago thousands of chinese would try and flock there.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14248562]

>>14247280
>current paradigm
Naw.
But, yes, a reasonable reassessment is what’s being called for by “leftism”. And the majority, the people themselves, ought to be the ones to do the reassessment. Elitist lefties often worry about the masses capacity to make informed decisions but then fail to educate them on just how.

>>14247191
How about less bile? I told you I ran out of time.
What do you mean either? You never asked any direct questions. Where’s my starting point, there’s so much to cover?
The world is bad because we’ve set it up as fierce competition. All this talk of civility and civilization, and we’re no less brutish than Odysseus or Hammurabi. But people are NOT like this, this is not “natural”, it is a learned behavior. Most people aren’t weak and lazy or aggressive and violent. They just want to live harmoniously. Perhaps a little selfishly, but excessively selfish are encouraged by their circumstances, learned behavior again.
Competition in itself isn’t a bad thing, but it has led to quite a lot of strife. We’ve neglected all else in this capitalist world. Wipe capitalism, competition, out and you change the system, you change the way people think, you change the world. We place more value in money than in people now. After, we’d place value in each other.

>>14247039
Because leftism is anti-capitalist. Capitalists have a right and a left, but they both suck.

>>14247150
You want a woman to fart in your face after the revolution?

[Anonymous No.14248591]

>>14245126
Money is basically required to run an economy. Once individuals are trading with strangers a medium of exchange is needed. Even if you had a perfect communist state run by a computer it would need to attach quanitative value to material, labor, and product. And deconstructing heirarchy is impossible.

[Anonymous No.14248619]

>>14245709
Wait a fucking second ive seen that painting in person

[Anonymous No.14248652]

>>14248619
Did you help him up?

[Anonymous No.14248661]

>>14244238
ITT: cringe tier sargonite became a commie

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14248671]

>>14248591
Here. Read.

[Anonymous No.14248707]

>>14244238
Lol, get a load of this guilty conscious retard. You're the political equivalent of a born again Christian. The cherry on top is the literal feel good kropotkin propaganda. Get over your slave mentality, it'll make you feel better.
>>14245118
The original Fascists organically became/created fascism.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14248716]

>>14246996
How do you mean “dynamic discourse” exactly?

>>14246942
The comparison assumes there is a proper “dad” in the picture, but there never was. People are like an extended family, but no parent is in the house. A jerky older brother has locked himself in the master bedroom and started dictating orders on how things are done.
So we advocate a big fuck you to that jerk.

Here’s a book I’ve been reading some from. As if I’m gonna be a farmer... I love it.

[Anonymous No.14248727]

>>14244238
For me, I was never really a radical until I read leftist literature. Once I gazed into absolute insanity, I realized that fascism was the only force capable of truly saving us from the mental insanity that is leftism.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14248747]

>>14248727
Care to be more specific?
Leftism is reasonable and compassionate. Fascism is just about establishing control and painting over everything with homogenous colors

[Anonymous No.14248898]

>>14246596
>"whiteness" being a modern concept that has excluded Italians or the Irish, something like a Japanese national identity carrying basically zero - heh - weight until the Meiji Restoration
The Japanese have almost always considered thememselves as one nation. The Emperor was always the symbolic leader of the Japanese people. In fact, of all the feudal kingdoms that birthed industrial ethnostates, the Japanese were among the easiest to unify.

Whiteness is also nothing new. It was just called Chistendom before the modern period, in which a new name was needed to distingush europeans from colonial converts. The Irish and Italians were always considered "white", the real ethnic friction came from their catholic faith. They were never excluded to the same degree as blacks, or for any of the same reasons. For basically all of western history intermarriage between christians, whites, was normal. The English and Irish intermarried constantly, and the Italians intermarried with the French and Austrians constantly. The idea that whites, christians, europeans, or whatever label you wish to use are distinct from the muslims and people from the far east is at least 1000 years old.

[Anonymous No.14248923]

>>14248747
Ban yourself, red liberal. You are a secular Jesuit. You and your orbiters add nothing to any thread.

[Anonymous No.14249034]

All these right wing arguments seem to stem from a crippling ignorance of history. Once you start studying history you realise that human nature is a lot less fixed than the rightoids want to believe, and all the wondrous traditions that they keep appealing to, such as nationalism, the family and even modern expressions of religion such as protestantism are revealed to be a mere few hundred years old. All of a sudden these traditions start to seem a lot less sacred.

[Anonymous No.14249068]

>>14249034
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.14249081]

>>14249034
We appeal to them because they are good, now because they are sacred, flesh-worshipper. They are the creations that have redeemed us from the disgrace intrinsic to our natural form.

[Anonymous No.14249105]

>>14249081
The traditions previous to the ones we have now were also good until they stopped serving their purpose. There is no reason to suppose the same won't happen again. In the end, most "traditionalists" such as yourselves are revealed to be modernists in another form, and you have no defense against the ravages of capitalism.

>>14249068
>literally no argument

[Anonymous No.14249144]

>>14248747
>Fascism is just about establishing control and painting over everything with homogenous colors
It's the opposite. Fascism is the celebration and defense of the unique constellation of colours which makes up the nation.

[Anonymous No.14249150]

>>14244238
>deradicalisation

Culture and Counter-Culture by James McAuley. A short article by a poet who was an anarchist, then a Guenonian Traditionalist, and then finally a sober Catholic.

[Anonymous No.14249157]

OP, I have a degree in African-American studies so I can guide you in the cleansing of your Thought-Sins. First, acknowledge your racist-ness before our lord and savior Martin Luther King (pbuh). Second, say fifty "Believe All Women" prayers. Third, watch one full season of Martin (the first season is the shortest but it's not very good-go with the second or the third). Finally, with real sincerity pray to Our Black Savior "Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, I acknowledge my irredeemable racist-ness before you. Please let your forgiveness enter my heart, harambe"
With this you should be able to date that qt3.14 latina art or journalism major with a clear conscience.
MLK be with you.

[Anonymous No.14249164]

>>14249034
>All these right wing arguments seem to stem from a crippling ignorance of history.
Tell me more about all those POC in Medieval England.

[Anonymous No.14249194]

>>14245670
It doesn't. In fact it notes that hierarchy and exchange are even older than commonly claimed. The value judgment and argument enters when Graeber explains how markets are manufactured and maintained.

[Anonymous No.14249216]

>>14249034
>One semester of Anthropology is a dangerous thing.

[Anonymous No.14249239]

>>14249034
The only people upholding traditions older than a few hundred years old are the reactionaries. It's you leftists that are championing all these enlightenment constructions and metaphysical justifiers. What does that mean for your philosophical/political position? The fact that it is in many ways the apotheosis of the liberal traditon it claims to oppose.

[Anonymous No.14249332]

>>14244238
Why does every far-left YouTube suck Kropotkin's dick? It's like the only book they've read.

[Anonymous No.14249348]

>>14249332
far-left YouTuber*

Thought Slime and Noncompete are examples.

[Anonymous No.14249397]

>The last bastion of my right wing ideology was >but muh free markets are the most efficient
>OP goes from edgy 14 yr old 4chan nazi to edgy college sophomore groupthink communist in five years
PATHETIC
OP tiny tweener girl mind is going to be blown by every ideology like the shallow memer that he is.

[Anonymous No.14249503]

You never had political opinions or an identity in the first place, you never arrived at your own beliefs through study, discipline, and inquiry. Your joining of the "far right" was fake and your so called "de-radicalization" will be too. You were never a radical, you are and always will be pathetic,trading identities from one to another until you come close to realizing your own lack of self and revert back to whatever other identity is offered to you to fill the void of your own non-existence.

I doubt you ever even read far right political theory or any political theory at all, and spend all of your time on the internet reading infographics without citations and just gulping down whatever mixture of beliefs are given to you. What use will reading your way out of radicalization be when you never even read your way into it?

>The last bastion of my right wing ideology was >but muh free markets are the most efficient, >duh left will make the sky fall down and the economy crash. Reading Conquest of Bread helped me realise that capitalism was far from the most efficient system out there and that it efficiently provides only for capital and not for the majority of people. I'm not sure I'm an anarchist, probably just a generic leftie

You fell hard into right wing opinions and beliefs, only to read a single book and suddenly become an anarchist leftie? You believed yourself to be one thing, and now don't even know if you are another while you denounce the former? What a fucking child you must be, go to reddit if you want to be a know it all without ever knowing anything.

[Anonymous No.14249534]

>>14244238
"de radicalization" aka brainwashing yourself. Capitalism is cover art. If your big bad views were corresponding to this they weren't "radical" whatsoever

[Anonymous No.14249542]

>>14249034
pro pedophile bait post

[Anonymous No.14249556]

>>14244342
Biology is meaning. Ignore your biology and see how long you survive for. You also project moralisms while at the same moment throw venom.

>>14244355
Figuring things out VS your own enemy ideology. I see through you.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249608]

>>14249542
The mention of "family" is more about extended family, even non-related people becoming a part of a household, as opposed to the "nuclear family" that isolates themselves.

>>14249332
Maybe because you're watching youtubers who have read Kropotkin recently. Look for Bookchin now.

>>14249194
There are legit hierarchies! The problems in the world are there are tons of illegit ones. You have a Punk band lyrics worth of understanding what anarchism is, and you read Graeber?

>>14249144
And their fantasy must be strictly enforced, I know, I said that.

>>14249556
>Figuring things out VS your own enemy ideology
I was more or less where OP was once. It was quite gradual, the whole time I thought I was just being sensible, but so much was concealed from me. I'm embarrassed to say I've only been an anarchist for about nine years, and embarrassed that I was a progressive liberal before, and embarrassed that I was a christian conservative in my youth. I take more pride in being a listless nonconformist goth in between the last two.
You see through nothing

[Anonymous No.14249630]

>>14249608
I see through you you dance through word games like denial of Metaphysics, and meaning for the sake of justifying your own meaning. You live in an Ego bubble, it's notable for most tripfags who always try to embed their moralisms through their identity in this board. The Chans have seen a thousand people like you. Your isms and ists only serve as a beacon for those lurking of your double edged hypocrisy and subversion. You claim op is having problems. Synchronized non comfority is what you stand for. It's a wonder how you keep justifying this game to yourself.

[Anonymous No.14249644]

>>14247150
>Will I be guranteed at least one braphog in the socialist future? If not whats the damn point
Actually, kinda

Under socialism and communism, automation will free up humanity's time, noone will be exploited by circumstance to do porn anymore, and instead there'll be lots of amateur fetishists waiting to fulfill your wildest fantasy.

[Anonymous No.14249651]

>>14249644
Automation will be humanity's time. The future is a bubble of entertainment, obesity, and subserviant consumers. I think of those furrjes who have severe fetishisms as the future unless we destroy the current doctrine totally, erasing the books from existence in a contemporary library of Alexandria.

[Anonymous No.14249658]

when you know such capitalism and Communism all share the same origin you know it's all an illusion

[Anonymous No.14249669]

>>14249658
Then they herd you with concepts like right and left. Your entire world view was crippled from the start.

[Anonymous No.14249672]

>>14249608
I haven't expressed any opinions regarding anarchism, how would you know what level of understanding I hold? And who/what ordained you as the arbiter of legitimate hierarchies? I could very well claim that hierarchies you deem to be illegitimate are in fact legitimate; providing my own metaphysical justification. Now what? Is this just a battle of wills?

[Anonymous No.14249673]

>>14249672
Human life is indeed the battle of wills, sometimes against others and mostly against your own

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249680]

>>14249630
Ah, the "Chans"
They've seen people like me. Funny though. I've been here for quite a damn while and have not seen anyone like me.
I guess you don't like Nietzsche or Stirner and probably haven't heard of Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
There's no hypocrisy, only artistic liberties to achieve a temporary balance. But this is getting off topic. We could talk elsewhere later if you like

[Anonymous No.14249685]

>>14248747
This post proves you are venom. Word games that lead to Katyń

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249700]

>>14249672
Because of your lack of some basics about it. Like
>And who/what ordained you as the arbiter of legitimate hierarchies?
We would collectively ferret that all out for ourselves, of course! This is makes it plain you're new to this. But you're studying and here, so not trying to offend.

[Anonymous No.14249704]

>>14249680
The hypocrisy of preaching the death of morals while rebranding your own moralisms is nothing artistic but a necessity of human justification for its own biological reason to exist. You say words like compassion with attachments to base ideologies, easy for the lowest vibrations of person to succumb too like OP but for all others it is just a grim reminder that the self proclaimed escapees are the ones leading you right back into the asylum

[Anonymous No.14249716]

>>14249608
Why isn't the state a legitimate hierarchy in the current moment?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249723]

>>14249704
Off topic

[Anonymous No.14249739]

>>14249723
It's all off topic, tripfags are never trusted for good reason. You only serve as another model example for us all.

[Anonymous No.14249742]

>>14249700
I'm not new to this, if anything you're new to what I'm presenting to you. How do you expect your anarchic democratic collective to get off the ground without mediation from the prevailing authority? It isn't really anarchic at all at the point, isn't it?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249744]

>>14249716
Have you red Stirner?

Have you noticed this entity and it's behavior and what it does to the "hearts" and minds of men put in place to steer it's awful maw?
I don't care how long it's been a thing in history. They're a danger to us all to maintain.

[Anonymous No.14249748]

>>14249742
Anarchism is just eye candy. It's perverse because those who adhere to it are not trying to escape any hierarchy but deceptively form their own

[Anonymous No.14249752]

>>14249157
>do away with god out of the misguided belief that human beings are intelligent, compassionate, and righteous on their own and have evolved past the need for religion
>create a power vacuum and temporary insanity
>the gap is quickly filled by an artificial god (social justice) that operates just like catholicism and fulfills just the same human needs

The fundamental problem of politics is that 99% of humanity are dumb monkeys in human clothing. I can't even find heart to argue that humanity deserves better governance. Every people gets just the government it deserves.

Injustice exists only for individuals, never for larger populations.

[Anonymous No.14249754]

>>14249744
Arguing against the existence of states while being a tripfag is perhaps something to think about. I said before I see through you, you reveal far too much about yourself

[Anonymous No.14249764]

>>14249744
Spare the lyricism please. I didn't ask if the state was pretty. I asked why it isn't a necessary hierarchy. How're even you gonna get your anarchism without a state? I ain't reading Stirner, I've got limited time and bigger priorities than a meme like him.

[Anonymous No.14249765]

>>14249716
Legitimacy is a product of power. Cite your obscure German metpahysics as much as you'd like; power doesn't care. You hold no power, you have no legitimacy.

[Anonymous No.14249767]

You're reacting to the wrong ideas of your past by sucking on the wrong ideas of your former opponents.

It's normal to embody the opposite when you reject what you formerly believed in. You'll grow out of it, eventually.

[Anonymous No.14249783]

William James and Pragmatism for method. Whitehead for metaphysical framework. Marx for critique of political economy. Deleuze for my toolbox for power.

[Anonymous No.14249784]

>>14249765
I agree. Which is why I asked the tripfag why the state isn't a legitimate structure. Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.14249795]

>>14249784
Replied to the wrong post >>14249765
meant for >>14249744

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249805]

>>14249742
Now we talk about strategy for the achievement of such a thing. Okay.
Are you an ML/statist socialism guy?
It could be gradually achieved, but probably only with two components that I've mentioned before. The non-accumulative currency and democracy in the workplace. Without traditional money there's no bribery, with more responsibility in the workplace, there's less need for government agencies. Gradually every state representative will become rather unnecessary.
Still a rather simplistic scenario, I know.

>>14249748
Completely the opposite. What do you know of free Catalonia?

>>14249754
Whatever you think you see, you keep the secret good. As far as I can see you don't understand me at all.

>>14249764
It has become quite necessary to do away with it for the existential crisis alone.

>>14249795
Really? You're going to have to rephrase it to make sense

[Anonymous No.14249822]

>>14249805
What existential crisis? More importantly, how're you going to fight states wothout making your own for safety?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249854]

>>14249822
You don't believe the science behind climate change? And you wanna know more details of my foolproof plan?
So what are you though?

[Anonymous No.14249870]

>>14249716
101 stuff
https://everything-voluntary.com/why-states-are-illegitimate

[Anonymous No.14249882]

>>14249854
How does climate change delegitimise the state as a necessary hierarchy? Does the opposite if anything surely.

>>14249870
Thanks. I'll read it tomorrow. If there's any short key bits copy em here and I'll skim them.

[Anonymous No.14249883]

>>14249854
>>14249854
buttercunt don't you have a job or anything? you're always posting here. no one likes you. you're not particularly smart or clever and are not even well read. why can't you go felate a shotgun?

[Anonymous No.14249888]

>>14246361
"I agree with lefties but I allow the working class to be divided in my head in this one crucial way deliberately engineered by my masters and it prevents me from challenging their rule."

There's a real elegance to the simplicity of how they mind cucked you.

[Anonymous No.14249908]

>>14249805
First anon you replied to. I'm a formalist. The point I'm making is broader one. Power is the capacity to do; to effect change. How do you expect to effect this change 1) without power, and 2) when this change impinges upon the power of those that hold it; the powers that be are not simply going to let a competing power run all over it, they're going to stop it in its tracks. I suggest you look into the history of revolution and rebellion. These events did not occur without the patronage (i.e. the permission) of the powers that be. They served as political expedients for them. If you anarchic revolution can only occur with the permission of the powers that be (in which case it would be serving them as a political expedient) is it really a revolution at all?

[Anonymous No.14249920]

>>14249716
Legitimacy isn't a real thing.

The question is if there's a possible hierarchy or lack thereof that you would prefer, or that most people would prefer if you subjectively value the happiness of others, which leftists tend to.

[Anonymous No.14249926]

>>14249920
I was speaking inside the anarchist framework of on being against 'legitimate hierarchies'. That's why I used the term. Probably wouldn't've otherwise.

[Anonymous No.14249935]

>>14249680

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14249940]

>>14249908
>the powers that be are not simply going to let a competing power run all over it
It can be done only through sheer numbers. We have always outnumbered them, and this is why they invest so much in breaking us apart and setting us on each others backs.
>they're going to stop it in its tracks
And we will approach human extinction all the faster for it.
>I suggest
I have actually read some and will read some more, thanks.

[Anonymous No.14249977]

>>14249926
I suspect anarchists in that context are just using "legitimate" to mean hierarchies that are as minimal as possibly while still meeting some tangible and beneficial need or purpouse from the perspective of the community.

If you can reasonably point out something about a given hierarchy that's bullshit, superfluous, unjustified or inefficient, then it presumably wouldn't fit the bill, and that's very easy to do for the types of hierarchies anarchists are always complaining about.

[Anonymous No.14249989]

>>14249977
I agree. But I think the state is neither superfluous or inefficient. Are there anarchists who think that? If not, then it's a little more complicated than you say.

[Anonymous No.14249996]

>>14249940
Were you by my house today? :3

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14250002]

>>14249989
>But I think the state is neither superfluous or inefficient.
Then you're not paying attention.

[Anonymous No.14250008]

>>14250002
see
>>14249996

[Anonymous No.14250024]

>>14250002
That's not really a very convincing answer is it. Especially given what happened in anarchist Spain etc.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250033]

>>14250024
That’s not a very good argument

[Anonymous No.14250046]

>>14250033
I think it is. If the state is illegitimate but you need one to fight them to have any chance of success then the state is not in fact illegitimate in the present moment. Which was the phrase I used in my first post.

[Anonymous No.14250055]

>>14249940
>It can be done only through sheer numbers
Again; why would the powers that be even let a competing power get to this stage. Historically, they either haven't, or used such movements as political expedients. An obscure example: the formation of the University of Bologna is often seen as anarchic enterprise. Foreign students, in response to oppressive tax codes, collectivized with the aim of forming a institutional body (i.e. the university), that could resist these codes on a structural level. They achieved this primary through the formation of guilds. Guilds, however, were an officially sanctioned (i.e. mediated by authority) means of organizing at the time. If Frederick Barbarossa didn't want the students collectivizing, he simply wouldn't have allowed them to form guilds, as they would have to have gone through official channels to do so. It turns out he did, however, for politically expedient purposes lol.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250093]

>>14250046
Oh brother
I get this lazy response every time. Always this same cowards plea. “It’s never happened, so it never will”
Now a hint of “If your numbers overpower the state, you too are now a state”
>In the present moment
And didn’t I go on about a transitory phase?
It isn’t a good argument against it.

>>14250055
>Again; why would the powers that be even let a competing power get to this stage.
Why has the state created a caste of slaves? Why not kill them all off... actually, now that you bring it up. They’re kind of scared. Since we hit the labor surplus in the 1970s they’ve been quite careless with our health and well-being.
But again; they employ a lot of divisionary tactics to distract you.

[Anonymous No.14250115]

>>14250093
It sounds like we mostly agree if you believe in some sort of intermediate/'transitional' stage. I'm goin to bed, later.

[Anonymous No.14250143]

>>14250093
You think power grants us privileges for fun? Or because they're careless? You underestimate your superiors. You can try organizing without their mediation, but all it'll ever amount to is sitting around in the woods.

[Anonymous No.14250161]

>>14250115
anarchists do agree on socialism as a transitional stage.

[Anonymous No.14250182]

personally i never de-radicalized, in fact im far more radical than ever before. i'm talking full on domestic terrorism, political assassinations, firebombing government buildings, executing CIA conspirators and their entire families and so on. nobody ever said revolution would be pretty.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250199]

>>14250143
Bootlickers!

>>14250182
I’d prefer peaceful, but I know this isn’t going to be pretty. Take care.

[Anonymous No.14250217]

>>14250199
Unless you're on top, you're a bootlicker whether you like it not. The only way to become the boot is to give it something it wants.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250252]

>>14250217
You don’t get what it means?
You are a lapdog to power. I am a mere prisoner that hates them. I am low class and will never lick their boots in order to climb their ladder. I don’t want a boot for others to lick.

[Anonymous No.14250293]

>>14250182
>when the glows are posting
4channel is a website of peace
>>14244238
little something called "righteous hatred". when you have a reason to be pissed off, you SHOULD be. it's a healthy response, and without it both organisms and civilizations DIE.
>clarity of mind
simply get gud

[Anonymous No.14250294]

>>14250252
Do take advantage of any of the privileges, structural, material or otherwise, that power has afforded you? Take a diachronic perspective, and think of all the the aspects of your being that are, only because of those that have existed above you. You're a bootlicker whether you like it or not. This isn't a bad thing.
>To be is to inherit.
- Derrida

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250320]

>>14250294
Read the post again >>14250252

[Anonymous No.14250378]

>>14246492
We jump to radicalisation because liberalism / progressivism doesn't provide answers. That's why the far left is appealing to lots of vulnerable people who are suffering, but liberalism can't provide answers for why they are suffering. There is no liberal regime that has managed to successfully resist communism. Shattering the illusion and understanding leftist theory is the only anti-dote.

[Anonymous No.14250381]

>>14250320
I knew you'd respond with that comic. Read my post again. I'm not speaking to any attempts to better society, I'm speaking to what you *are". You're only an anarchist because powers greater than you have given (functional) existence to the anarchic edifice. Think of who'd you be without the printing press or the internet or the physical communities your live in, and then think of the authorities that granted existence to those things. Extend this to every aspect of your being and across history.

[Anonymous No.14250421]

>>14250381
>Think of who'd you be without the printing press or the internet or the physical communities your live in
All provided/funded by labor

[Anonymous No.14250430]

>>14250421
Labor that just spontaneously occurred with the mediation of authority?

[Anonymous No.14250459]

>>14250430
you're under the short sighted assumption that it can't organize itself and can't lead to novel/creative endeavors. in the end they arent anything without labor.

[Anonymous No.14250476]

>>14244578
Kindpilled. Bless you anon.

[Anonymous No.14250515]

>>14250459
If anything it is you that's short sighted. Spontaneous order in the vein of the contract theorists has been the prevailing (and unexamined) worldview for a long time now. What we find instead is that authority comes first, with labor and creativity being a function of that authority.

[Anonymous No.14250541]

>>14250515
Organization is all made up. The time calls for new thinking. We are living in a time of urgency. The authority of today is nothing but a restraint which we could do without. It is time to move to something novel. You can look at history all you want but you arent accomplishing anything but being pedantic.

[Anonymous No.14250555]

>>14250541
>It is time to move to something novel.
Cool. And what do the powers that be have to say about that?

[Anonymous No.14250566]

>>14250555
The opposite

[Anonymous No.14250574]

>>14250566
So you just expect them to experience a change of heart and go along with it?

[Anonymous No.14250580]

>>14250574
No I'm not a utopian

[Anonymous No.14250602]

>>14250580
How will you go about getting what you want then, without first giving them something they want?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250617]

>>14250381
I’m nothing but a wage slave with half my life gone. And witnessing the demise of my species as they act like a bunch a demented apes.
You are a bootlicking capitalist apologist

>>14250602
What do you get a power mad degenerate for Christmas?

[Anonymous No.14250624]

>>14250602
organize workers

[Anonymous No.14250628]

>>14250617
Exist your liberal political paradigm; I'm not a capitalist. I simply recognize the necessity for authority. I believe it can do better, and we can do better by it.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250631]

>>14250624

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250640]

>>14250628
You hide as you prod. What are you than if not an apologist?

[Anonymous No.14250652]

>>14244238
>De-radicalisation
>You've been spooked by moral fags, not bend over and i'll educate you now egoism and the foundation of human society.

No but seriously you should check out egoism. Max Stirner is a good foundation for political thought, but his prescriptions are shit and to edgy. Similar to Thomas Hobbs and the state of nature.

[Anonymous No.14250656]

>>14250628
all ideology. fashies are disgusting.

[Anonymous No.14250658]

>>14250624
Will this organizing process involve the use of any resources mediated by authority? In such a case your organization will hold (some) power, but only by virtue of the powers that be. Or (putting aside the technical impossibility of this option) will it be well and truly "bottom-up"? In which case it will lack any power at all. See my other reply for more info >>14250055

[Anonymous No.14250662]

>>14244774
Post-Suffering Afro-Polar BINC-Egupt

[Anonymous No.14250664]

>>14250640
I've already told you what I am. There's a difference between defending the actions of the powers that be, and recognizing the necessity of authority as such.
>>14250656
Not a fascist, dumb cunt.

[Anonymous No.14250672]

>>14245167
Dont forget the pills

[Anonymous No.14250680]

>>14250658
This is why education and spreading class consciousness must be the first step. Workers cant organize if they dont now why the ought organize.

[Anonymous No.14250686]

>>14250658
the "powers that be" arent anything without recognition. it is an abstraction that you are mistakingly making out as concrete.

[Anonymous No.14250690]

>>14244254
>What's the point of having political views?
Everyone has political views, most people don't recognize them because they line up with the status quo. Dumb people that is.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250693]

>>14250658
Again with the misunderstanding of unjustifiable hierarchies?

>>14250664
No.
The word used... I don’t wanna look for it. Wasn’t recognizable as anything political to me. Just reveal yourself already, phantom.

[Anonymous No.14250725]

>>14250680
How will you spread class consciousness on a systemic level without authority-mediated resources/the permission of authority?
>>14250686
Historical analysis reveals this to be backwards. It doesn't even make sense; how are those WITH the capacity to effect change beholden to those without? "No representation without taxation" holds more true than the inverse.
>>14250693
Read again. I'm a formalist.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250740]

>>14250725
>formalist
Ah, thank you. Couldn’t find it.

formalist
n. One who adheres strictly to established custom, form, or usage, as in style, conduct, or procedure; one who is attached to the observance of recognized modes or methods; also, one who has undue regard to forms and rules.
n. In philosophy, one who denies the existence of matter and recognizes the existence of form only; an idealist.
n. One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.

A bootlicker. All is clear now.

[Anonymous No.14250748]

>>14250740
Didn't find the right definition, didn't present an argument either. Keep bootlicking the anarchist edifice.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250773]

>>14250748
Oh? Well it happens to me too. Capitalists dictionary doesn’t want to define anarchism in a good light.
So what definition are you? None of those?

>anarchist edifice
Haha. There’s just me

[Anonymous No.14250784]

>>14250725
Everyone has a capacity for change. You are mistaking the abstract for the concrete.

[Anonymous No.14250805]

>>14250773
>just me
You've read a bunch of anarchist literature and anarchist sympathetic philosophy and taken on the views expressed in these books. Functionally, the authors of these books have violently imposed their views, an expression of the their wills, on you. You lick Nietszche's and Stirner's boots every time you uphold and defend them. But, it mustn't be forgotten that they too are the product of those that came before them. As are those that came before them. Functionally, you are licking the boots of the entire history of human ideation every waking second.
>To be is to inherit.
- Derrida

[Anonymous No.14250814]

>>14244382
Thanks anon now I know what I want done with my corpse.

[Anonymous No.14250821]

>>14244238
you havent "de-radicalized" yourself, just moved into another group

>>14244254
there isnt

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250849]

>>14250805
>violently
I’ve mixed and matched and even begun to think critically of them. I apply some Marxian economists ideas. I come up with things on my own too. What you call violet is more violence on my part.
You are the bootlicker
>Derrida
Pfff

[Anonymous No.14250859]

>>14244906
I want robo-fascism too

[Anonymous No.14250865]

>>14250805
We inherit the past so what? What insight do you have to add? We have inherited the past but the future has yet to be chosen. We have been tasked with the infinite amount of possibilities ahead of us and we must be adventurous in our thought. I think you would do well in reading some Whitehead, anon.

[Anonymous No.14250892]

>>14250849
>Mixed and matched
Doesn't matter. Still not your own. Either way, the techniques of synthesis and critique (and the impetus thereof) are yet more things that have been violently imposed upon you.
>I come up with things on my own too
Prove it. The fact that you formulate your supposedly original thoughts in a language and system of concepts you inherited is proof enough against this statement.
>more violence on my part
Correct; we all impose, we all force others to lick our boots. There's ALWAYS a bigger boot though. We're all bootlickers, but some (you, for example) are moreso than others.
>Pfff
Scared?

[Anonymous No.14250899]

>>14250865
So what? Inheritance is a violent, authoritarian process (I'm not making a value judgment here). Read my other posts, understand the ramifications. Also Whitehead sucks; read Derrida.

[Anonymous No.14250905]

>>14250865
>i need to be a special snowflake that is different just for the sake of being different

these people bother me even more than the stalin/mao types

[Anonymous No.14250911]

>>14250899
Derrida is reddit. This is a Deleuze board.

[Anonymous No.14250915]

>>14250905
I don't even know what you're saying.

[Anonymous No.14250942]

>>14250911
Deleuze is tranny central, Derrida is chad.

[Anonymous No.14250945]

>>14250899
Knowledge isn't inherited. The next generation doesn't inherit the knowledge of how to use the atomic bomb. Everything is learned.

[Anonymous No.14250972]

>>14250945
We're describing the same thing. I never said everything is inherited faithfully. Inheritance is the condition for learning.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250975]

>>14250892
>not your own
No, it’s all mine now.

[Anonymous No.14250983]

>>14250975
>mine
You are not just you. Your literal reference to Stirner is proof enough lmao

[Anonymous No.14250984]

>>14250972
You ate describing it dishonestly. It also has nothing to do with the topic.

[Anonymous No.14250985]

>not ultra-radicalizing and become NazBol

Cowards

[cunt No.14250989]

>>14250983
>reference to Stirner is proof enough lmao
prove it

[Anonymous No.14250992]

>>14250984
I'm not, and it does if you've been following the thread up to this point.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14250996]

>>14250985
>it’s cowardice not to step into crazy
Heh

>>14250983
You think you’re bothering me with the fact that I have influences. But the goal post was who here is a bootlicker

[Anonymous No.14250999]

>>14250989
See >>14250805

[Anonymous No.14251004]

>>14250996
You don't have influences, you have boots you lick. As do we all, and as all do to us.

[Anonymous No.14251010]

>>14251004
A bootlicker is someone who kisses up to their oppressors. Total misuse of the word.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14251011]

>>14251004

[Anonymous No.14251019]

>>14251010
It really isn't. Try to into abstract thinking

[Anonymous No.14251033]

>>14244238
>far right
>still believed in free market economy
Clearly, you weren't radicalized enough.

[Anonymous No.14251040]

>>14251019
It really is. I am looking at these posts and you are honestly a pseud.
>>14250992
Yes you are. We choose what to discard and with time something new is brought in. There is always a slight difference in everything. It is more akin to a network of conversations and events.

[Anonymous No.14251065]

>>14251019
And she isn't licking boots she is literally using their ideas and concepts as tools for power.

[Anonymous No.14251077]

>>14251040
You're not even trying to have a conversation. You just barge in here call me a pseud and tell me to read Whitehead. You're a cunt dude.
As for your second point: our choices are mediated by those that came before us, and those before them. I don't disagree with your statement regarding difference (I am in part a Derridean after all), but I do regarding it's mechanism; fundamentally it is an impositional one, not one of choice.

[Anonymous No.14251080]

>>14251065
How else to you attain power but lick the boots of power? Power doesn't grow on trees.

[Anonymous No.14251081]

>>14245690
>righties
There are no real right wing politics in the world currently. Everyone is either a centrist neocon/neolib, or an outright marxist. All of which are globalists abusing the free market to their own interests. We on the right wing want protectionists markets to avoid such abuse, but have no representation in our own governments. Then smug retards like you come along and pretend that this current system is somehow reflective of us?

[Anonymous No.14251125]

>>14251077
>our choices are mediated by those that came before us
In the final act we are so conditioned by unconscious previous thought, as a matter of fact we have been determining that act by an enormous amount of rejection and selection. It all depends on what ideas are entertained and how we entertain them; some may be dismissed at once as horrible and repugnant, others dwelt upon as pleasant. After this rejection and selection has gone on for a sufficiently long period, the final act is conditioned, but we have had a large share in doing it.
>>14251080
You are using words that mean something else entirely I think you are just being dishonest >>14251010

[Anonymous No.14251163]

>>1724326
>obtain cheap kitchen sponges
>the kind without the abrasive surfaceon one side
>get a container of cornstarch
>get a roll of twine, or use dental floss
>mix cornstarch and water together 50:50
>saturate sponge completely with mixture
>roll sponge from small end and then fold in half
>wrap tightly with twine and allow to dry
>once dry, remove twine
>flush down shared toilet
>cornstarch dissolves and sponge returns to original size somewhere in the line
In minecraft.

[Anonymous No.14251170]

>>14251125
The "I", the conscious choice making subject, is the collective memetic impulses of human society considered both synchronically and diachronically. Our conditions are conditioned by prior conditions, determinations determined by prior determinations, rejections selected by prior rejections and selections rejected by prior selections; we don't entertain ideas, rather ideas entertain us. The "I" only exists functionally, insofar as it merely appears to be the locus of choice.
And I'm not being dishonest. How about you try to understand me rather than calling me such?

[Anonymous No.14251179]

>>14251170
mimetic*

[Anonymous No.14251200]

>>14244238
/pol/ is a board of peace, fag.

[Anonymous No.14251267]

>>14251080
The tools have already been given. Each generation services the next. Your thinking is backwards.
>>14251170
This is wrong and very flawed as it doesn't account for novelty. Thought is constantly impregnated.
I am sorry I was mean. I'm going to sleep now.

[Anonymous No.14251273]

>>14251080
The tools have already been given. Each generation services the next. Your thinking is backwards.
>>14251170
This is wrong and very flawed as it doesn't account for novelty. Thought is constantly impregnated with something monstrous always coming out.
I am sorry I was mean. I'm going to sleep now.

[Anonymous No.14251422]

>>14251273
>it doesn't account for novelty
Yeah it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff%C3%A9rance

[Anonymous No.14251616]

>>14244238
I wouldn't say i was radical - I was a classic liberal (wasn't on a pipeline, i was there for 2 years), and even hold some "typically" leftist views like all the ecology stuff. What made rethink many stuff was Philosophy Tube youtube channel. I started reading Capital, and it made sense this time. What's important is to stay benevolent, open-minded and willing to see world through new perspectives, and you won't end bad.

Congratulations on deradicalizing, anon

[Anonymous No.14251860]

>>14244254
Politics is how you know if you're a useful idiot for the ruling class

[Anonymous No.14251957]

>>14250905
>>i need to be a special snowflake that is different just for the sake of being different
nationalism?

[Anonymous No.14251965]

>>14244338
This. Pretty funny how that works.

[Anonymous No.14252179]

>>14251170
>rather ideas entertain us
Isn't it more that we should view subjectivity on a world-historic (class) scale rather than an atomised, individual one, rather than rejecting the possibility of emancipatory subjectivity out of hand?

[Anonymous No.14252188]

>>14251616
Did you know the Philosophy Tube guy has fucked the tranny known as Contrapoints? How's that for an image lmao

[Anonymous No.14252199]

>>14244238
Not only nice, but VERY nice.

[Anonymous No.14252392]

>>14249034
true, and the mad poltards are perfect proof

[Anonymous No.14252479]

>>14244402
You're a complete fucking idiot. Pedro II was OBSESSED with the modern world and with liberalism. He said he'd rather be the minister of a republic rather than emperor. When he went to the U.S. (he was a self-hating Brazilian who wished he were American) he preferred to be called 'citizen', not 'highness' or any such shit. You don't even know the history of the guy you admire. But, of course, who would've thought you wouldn't be this dumb when you're a fucking MONARCHIST.

[Anonymous No.14252498]

>>14251616
Thanks anon.

>>14252188
Thats hot AF and Id pay to bang Contrapoints.

[Anonymous No.14252646]

>>14252498
Interesting. You're attracted to trannies?

[Anonymous No.14252783]

>>14252646
Not that guy, but don't try to act surprised, it's common knowledge that there are people called "chasers", who are attracted to trannies

[Anonymous No.14252785]

>>14252783
those are called fags, anon

[Anonymous No.14252795]

>>14252783
I know that, I've just never spoken to one, so I was curious.

[Anonymous No.14252861]

I don't know if I was ever really radicalized, but I did have some /pol/ opinions.
Deleuze got rid of most of them
I'm still not a moralfag leftist tho

[Anonymous No.14253220]

>>14252795
If that's the case, i'm sorry for assuming you wanted to ridicule the other anon

[Anonymous No.14253401]

>>14253220
Make no mistake, I find the notion, and tranny stuff in general, disgusting. But yes, I was curious to hear the rationale.

[Anonymous No.14253617]

>>14246361
I’m sure their xenophilia has nothing to do with a certain duplicitous ethno-religious group’s worldview constantly perpetuated through all media

[Anonymous No.14254108]

>>14253401
everyone's entitled to their own opinion :)