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drmoose@lemmy.world 3 days agoI used to consider myself quite a socialist but tankies really straightened me out by taking side of Russia and Soviet Union of which I’ve experienced the horrors off first hand myself. There is socialism without cancers like Kremlin and CCP but the whole thing has been ruined and hijacked by these idiots just like alt-right ruined conservatives.
It’s possible to have an idiology and at the same time disagree with other people with that idiology.
Leftists especially are famous for disagreeing with each other.
I’m a socialist, but I don’t think mass centralization of power will ever lead to a good outcome. I believe in Richard Wolff’s ideology, which involves forcing corporations to be worker-owned cooperatives.
I don’t know man it feels like it’s too far gone. I’m getting constantly bullied for saying soviet union was actually evil and should not be aspired to which is such a turn off.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
You could try anarchism instead
greedytacothief@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve been reading “the dispossessed” by Ursula k le guin, and I’m becoming increasingly interested in anarchy. Where should I look for more information on it?
naught101@lemmy.world 3 days ago
George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia was pretty inspiring to me
(I’ll also add that Anna Funder’s Wifedom make Orwell seem a bit fucked in his personal life. I haven’t read it yet, just had convos with people who did. Seems maybe Homage to Catalonia could have been a better book if he was less of a mysogynist)
greedytacothief@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why is it hard to find people that aren’t shitty? I’m still recovering from learning Neil gaiman was an abuser
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, I’m quite fond of it!
I’m traveling around south east asia working remotely and staying in small expat communities for a few years at a time (long term visas are still hard). There are a lot of small communities all over the place here in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia. I’d hesitate to call them anarchist per se because it’s still kinda overseen by local authorities when it comes to crime and visas etc. but it’s pretty close otherwise!
That being said I don’t know how anarchism could be sustainable at scale without a major cultural reset, so I’m not sold on the idea it would work for giant homogenous places like China or US.
frezik@midwest.social 3 days ago
I think I’m anarchist in terms of personality, but I’m not quite there politically. Like you, I’m not quite sure how to get there from here. If we do things like mutual aid and support unions, I don’t think we’ll go wrong, and that could end up leading to anarchism at some point in the future.
Where I’m anarchist in personality is that I fundamentally don’t understand why you would want to be an authoritarian. When I first read 1984 and there’s the bit from O’Brien about how the system is there for power as an end to itself, I didn’t understand why anybody would want that. I can kinda see power as a way of gaining a comfortable life for yourself–usually at the expense of others–but not as its own end. I still don’t understand it, but have come to accept that there are people like that.
Some of those people are draped in thin blue line flags, and some of those people are draped in a hammer and sickle.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Maybe China and the US shouldn’t be giant and homogeneous.
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yup, though it seems like we missed our chance at this long time ago. Can you imagine what would have to happen for US or China to split up in this day an age? That’s world-war territory and tbh I’d rather have what we have now.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Problem is Anarchism is hijacked by people who want to destroy specific governments.