anarchiddy
I don't disagree with most of this, but saying 'beating Trump should have been easy' is kind of missing the point, too.
Democrats missed all the signs that the country is in crisis, and ran their typical playbook anyway. Trump, for all his stupidity, actually saw the panic in the voting base and mirrored their frustration back at them.
It was never going to be "easy" as long as they were pretending nothing was fundamentally wrong.
I fucking loathe Newsome - but this is hard to complain about
Jesus, that man has an incredible amount of message discipline
He is such a disciplined campaigner.
Along with an extremely strong platform, he is possibly the best ive seen at being relentless about staying on message.
Fuck the democrats for hanging him out to dry, they should be running Mamdani's in every state.
Then I guess it bears repeating that marxism is also concerned with those outcomes.
I'm taller than you. I leave some important stuff up on a high shelf. You have to ask me for the stuff
This is definitely not the type of hierarchy anarchism or marxism seek to dismantle. Natural formations of 'power' that come from biological differences arent the ones we're concerned with, but the larger structures built around them are. If you're taller than me and can reach things I cant, we can structure our organization so that either I can reach it wothout you (stairs) or so that I dont need whatever those things are (a job that doesnt require those things). What anarchism definitely isnt going to do is either make me taller or you shorter.
And oh yes gerontocracy absolutely can and does assert itself without a state
Same deal. Being older and less able is a natural 'hierarchy', but what concerns us isnt the handicaps that naturally arise but the structures we build around them. If we distribute food and resources according to ability but make no consideration for less-abled people, thats the problem we are solving for, not the eradication of handicaps entirely.
Maybe you know this and it'll sound like I'm being patronizing, but ultimately both anarchism and marxism seek to arrive at the same place of 'to each according to need, from each according to ability', and that will require structures that replace the things states do with more involved community organizations.
I guess I would disagree with Marx on this then, as I think even the mere differences between individuals can lead to power hierarchies if left socially unchecked
I think we'd need specific examples to come to an agreement, but frankly I can't think of a relationship like this that isn't voluntary. Maybe you mean something like patriarchal family relationships - but those types of structures can't really enforce themselves without class and state. Someone cant force their spouse to stay in their relationship if neither one can withhold the means of reproduction from the other
enact cooperative legislation through upward synthesis rather than downward prescription
This is what I mean: this is still a hierarchy, it's simply a consensual one. When one self-governed group then comes together with another to agree on collective organizing, that becomes a kind of hierarchy. Consent can be withdrawn at any time - and that's what makes it a more ethical structure than liberal democracy
I think this is a bit of a misconception.
Marx would agree that state and class are not the only forms power and hierarchy take, but his stance is that unjustifiable hierarchy needs the state to enforce itself.
Marx conceptualized the 'stateless, classless' society in much the same way anarchists do, but the traditions largely imagine the path to it very differently. Ultimately anarchists still see utility in civic structures and participation, which are still expressions of 'power 'and 'hierarchy', but are organized around "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" just as Marx imagined.
Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild
She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua
Once Maduro goes and we liberate our country, the Cuban regime will follow, the Nicaraguan regime will follow.
And for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism and narco dictatorships
Ive heard a few people ask if she's a CIA asset, amd while I don't think it's appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.
Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.
The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change
Well im certainly im favor of more obstructive forms of protest but it's cope to say they have mo motion