Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay

• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You cannot distill complicated views into linear axes, though.

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  • recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And yet tankies do this daily as a defining aspect of their identities.

    Inb4 Biden caused ww3 somehow.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t know what you’re trying to refer to, here. Marxists have always discredited the Political Compass as overly simplistic and erasing nuance.

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      WWIII hasn’t officially started, as of today. But history may yet point a finger at Biden if his longer range missiles heading towards Russian lands end up being a major factor in it beginning. That’s one hell of a hot potato to pass to the next admin. Certainly Biden received some hot potatoes too. Well see how the next six months go.

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  • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    These views aren’t complicated though, or aren’t as complicated as you think. Most of our political opinions can be boiled down to any of the 4 quadrants of the axis.

    Can you name any view that doesn’t fit into this axis?

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Many. Which is more “authoritarian” and which is more “libertarian,” a fully publicly owned and democratically controlled economy, or a highly decentralized market economy with a nightwatchman state?

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      • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well it depends right, let’s not act like there isn’t nuance to this.

        a fully publicly owned and democratically controlled economy

        It falls on the libertarian-left if individuals and communities genuinely govern themselves without coercion e.g democratic socialism. However, if the system requires a strong central authority to enforce public ownership and suppress alternative systems, it moves toward the authoritarian-left e.g Marxist-Leninism

        a highly decentralized market economy with a nightwatchman state

        This is just a straight up libertarian right economy. A nightwatchman state equals laissez-faire capitalism which aligns with libertarian philosophy.

        To answer your question, it depends on the type of publicly owned and democratically controlled economy we’re talking about.

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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How in the world has it “proven to be very efficient”? Did you run laboratory tests?

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