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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  By “liberalism is not the default mode of existence,” I meant to reject liberalism’s tendency to label its constructions as “natural”, “inevitable”, or “universal”. E.g., private property is not natural (even territorial animals cannot establish property lines like we do), not inevitable, and not universal (because it is a specifically Western liberal concept). Capitalism is not natural (c.f. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution), inevitable, or universal (e.g. various hunter-gatherer societies).

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re using the word “liberalism” a lot, can you define it in one short sentence for me?

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    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Liberalism is the justifying ideology of liberal democracy. Liberalism nominally stands for freedom, individual liberty, and equality, but actually perpetuates white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and the State.

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So you’re going to help us strive for a true democracy, with actual freedom, individual liberty, and equality, right?

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• teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You might as well ask which societies aren’t some variety of feudalism before liberalism was invented. It’s not an eternal unbreakable system.

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They said “in the west”. I want to know which non-Western countries exactly they’re referring to.

    Because it sounds to me like they’re just on China/Russia propaganda-brain.

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    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah you won’t see me glazing Russia, China, or any other state. I’m literally an anarcho-communist. But Russia and China are absolutely not liberal democracies.

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So then why do you use Russian and Chinese propaganda phrases like “in the west”?

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds like you’re just on western liberal propaganda brain

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, I’m not. I’m your worst nightmare - an independent thinker.

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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The socialist ones

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Such as?

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Vietnam, Cuba, China

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Can you explain to me how a country with stock markets, banks, and billionaires qualifies as “socialist”?

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