• galloog1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am sure that will protect minorities! That’s definitely never resulted in genocide. It’ll be fine this time around.

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        1 year ago

        Bosnia, Rwanda, and multiple acts carried out by the Janjaweed to name some of the more recent ones. Most of the other more recent ones were perpetrated by states against stateless peoples which also shouldn’t speak too kindly to your narrative.

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          Most of the other more recent ones were perpetrated by states against stateless peoples which also shouldn’t speak too kindly to your narrative.

          Well, it speaks to my narrative that states are evil.

          Bosnia, Rwanda

          Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t these nationalist movements on their way to build a state? Not the kind of stateless society Kropotkin imagined

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          Today, the whole world is divided into states but state abolismists want concepts like transformative justice that tries to undo the root of a problem, not just the symptoms.

          Also: stateless doesn’t mean no order at all, but it’s about hierarchy free systems

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      I’ve tried explaining to so many different people that giving ultimate power to a group of people that were raised in an environment that thinks “greed is good” is fucking dumb.

      Maybe I just don’t explain myself very well.

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        And yet thats the system we live in, giving a handful of boomer politicians the reigns while we beg for rights and basic amenities to live.

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          I think the point is that giving them full economic power would not make the situation better and once the politicians are solved, we wouldn’t need the economic change anyways.

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      Ah yes unlike the lack of genocide from authoritarian states!

      Local people need to be empowered, not politicians.

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        Decentralization in true left states results in starvation every single time. Centralization results in oppression. The USSR and the CCP went through each of these phases but almost every smaller example does too. The negative relations between the USSR and the CCP even started out as a disagreement around the USSR not following true decentralization until the starvation started.

        I don’t know what to tell you other than the fact that it has been tried. It is not a matter of states failing to follow Karl Marx’ best guidance around decentralization. It fails that quickly.