yogthos

yogthos OP , vor 6 Tagen

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-president-slams-irregular-mobilization-army-units-2024-06-26/

yogthos , vor 6 Tagen

Literally one of the safest sources of energy production in existence.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/49ea143b-ee18-48c2-bdee-b284dfcbaaa7.png

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-safest-and-deadliest-energy-sources/

yogthos , vor 6 Tagen

We obviously will have to address the problem of capitalism sooner than later.

yogthos , vor 6 Tagen

Except that you don't need uranium for nuclear reactors. The reason it's used traditionally because it's also used for nuclear weapons. Thorium is a much better fuel that's more abundant. China has already started operating these types of reactors. The other advantage of this design is that they use molten salt instead of water for cooling. Molten salt reactors don't need to be built next to large bodies of water, and they are safer because salt becomes solid when it cools limiting the size of contamination in case of an accident.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Operating-permit-issued-for-Chinese-molten-salt-re

yogthos OP , vor 7 Tagen

Yeah think so.

yogthos OP , vor 9 Tagen

lol it's like an island ecosystem :)

yogthos OP , vor 13 Tagen

Indeed, I find that aside from there just being too much media to consumer, there's also a factor of available energy. What I notice often happens is that browsing stuff like social media requires less mental effort than reading or even playing a game. So, you kind of just do it mindlessly when you're bored, but then you end up regretting not having spent the time doing something you would've found more meaningful instead. It's an intellectual equivalent of eating fast food instead of having a proper meal.

yogthos OP , vor 13 Tagen

😅

yogthos OP , vor 13 Tagen

I do find I mostly read ebooks nowadays as well.

yogthos OP , vor 14 Tagen

It's typically the same people who couldn't define what Communism is even if their life depended on it.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

Just because you have trouble comprehending something doesn't make it stupid.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

The thing is that anarchism fundamentally doesn't scale. There's a reason we see central authority arise in every functioning society regardless of its political system. It's the same reason complex animals evolve things like nervous systems and brains. Large organism need a way to coordinate actions towards a common purpose, and a human society is no different. This is why we see anarchist style societies at small scales, and then as they grow they develop central coordination mechanisms. The fact that anarchist can't wrap their heads around this simple concept is frankly depressing.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

I love how being unable to make a coherent argument you go on bleating about tankies. If you admit that capitalism is not a democracy for the majority, then what democracy is being abolished?

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

you ok there little buddy?

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

nah, the actual bottoms are the people who have been so conditioned to subjugation that they can't even imagine being in charge

https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/6ed2b403-8571-4e07-9603-04f4c321b60e.png

https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/069c2156-2c41-4896-8b32-09e5164e3ca1.png

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 16 Tagen)

Indeed, and this is why anarchism is really just an offshoot of the liberal ideology at the end of the day. Idealism holds that existence is inseparable from human perception and that reality stems from the mind. This leads them to think that they can just will reality into existence through sheer force of will. The general premise most anarchists seem to believe is that the state is responsible for all the problems in society, and if it was somehow abolished then people would just naturally act in cooperative and enlightened way. This appears to be premised on the assumption that most people think the way anarchists do.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

If the critique was well founded we'd see it applied in practice in the real world. The fact that anarchists aren't able to put their ideas into practice shows that they can be safely binned.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

neither do anarchists though, so I don't feel alone in that regard

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

I thought this was more of a BDSM thing?

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

ah gotcha

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

LMFAO

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

cope

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

already has https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/insights-and-events/insights/2024/01/employees-participation-in-corporate-governance-under-the-revised-chinese-company-law

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

Aww somebody's projecting. I love how you deny the reality of socialism that has been achieved in the real world while accusing me of idealism. Peak anarchist logic right there. 🤡

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

socialism is when non-state-run unions 🤣

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

when you definitely understand what a government is

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

I do, but clearly you don't.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

I do, that's why I don't spew nonsense the way you do.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

You're contradicting yourself little buddy, just earlier you were claiming that mass popular support is democracy. But apparently an uprising of the oppressed is just a coup. 🤡

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

lmfao took you half an hour to come up with this "comeback" 😂

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2ef3ec03-6ab8-4891-9518-9d899553118a.jpeg

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

I mean you clearly have a compulsion to keep talking to me, so just can't get enough of that foul tankie opinion I guess. 😂

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

That's right, being a foul tankie, I'm completely incapable of independent thought and simply do what my betters tell me like an automaton that I am. Only enlightened dronies are capable of truly independent thinking.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

it's so materialist that the only thing it managed to produce in the past century is a lot of hot air

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

Nah, I'm going by the actual tangible achievements, or lack of thereof as the case may be, of anarchists based on the teachings of their thinkers.

This was true of the Russian revolution when “all power to the Soviets” became hollow words and “war communism” became the new oppressor of the people.

Having actually grown up in USSR, I can tell you that listening to anarchists regurgitate this nonsense is incredibly offensive. It completely discredits your argument and shows that it is you who's opining on a subject you have no understanding of. All people like you accomplish is enable capitalist oppression by rejecting real world solutions.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

This clearly illustrates that anarchists are not capable of organizing in effective ways that can protect their ideology. The same way anarchists ended up losing to Bolsheviks, they end up losing to capitalists, and fascists. What Bolsheviks achieved was to build a socialist state that was able to defend itself and greatly improve the lives of the working majority. Anarchists simply aren't capable of doing that as the past century has shown beyond all doubt.

USSR was the first ever attempt at building socialism at scale, and while it may have collapsed, other socialist projects live on today and continue to improve lives of over a billion people on this planet.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

What I'm pointing out is that all ideologies compete with others. That's the reality of the world. If Anarchists are not able to defend the way they want to organize society then their ideology ends up being trampled by others. That's the world we live in. Calling this victim blaming doesn't change the material reality of the world.

The difference between anarchists and communists is that the latter actually managed to build functional societies, and to effectively resist capitalism. Anarchists failed to do that, and the reasons for why anarchist approach fails time and again are well understood now.

What Bolsheviks achieved was the betrayal of all who fought for the liberation of the proletariat.

Repeating nonsense over and over will not make it true.

You speak as if the USSR only repressed the forces of reaction, but it also repressed the very same workers it claimed to support when they tried to claim the worker control of the means of production they were promised.

This is an idealist position that's divorced from realities of the world. USSR existed under siege from global capitalism throughout its whole existence, and that was the reason it was organized the way it was.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

The Bolsheviks’ had the ill-gotten might to push their agenda, but might does not make right. The Bolsheviks lied to and used the anarchists to achieve what they did, but anarchists have learned from their past mistakes and will prove you wrong.

No amount of moralizing will change the fact that anarchists fail to organize effectively time and again. If anarchists actually learned anything then we'd see that put into practice. The lack of any actual achievements is the elephant in the room here.

Capitalist aggression did not make necessary the regressive views on social issues and science the USSR had (which resulted in famine), nor the widespread corruption and bureaucratic inefficiency of state officials. You cannot simply excuse all flaws of the USSR by blaming global capitalism.

Yes, it absolutely did as anybody with even minimal historical knowledge would know.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

Revolutions require a critical mass of people to come together, and sometimes people who have different vision for the end goal find opportunities to work together as Bolsheviks and anarchists did. Lenin wrote extensively on the subject of when alliances should be formed. MLs don't have a problem working with anarchists, recognizing that there are common interests and that a time may come where such alliances may need to be rethought. The hate largely comes from the side of anarchists who refuse to work with MLs and spend their time trying to discredit the accomplishments of existing socialist states.

It's also worth noting that the reality in the west today is that both MLs and anarchists are an insignificant political minority. If the current system does end up collapsing in the near future, then fascism is the most likely outcome. While the left bickers, the right is rapidly growing in power in vast majority of western countries.

yogthos , vor 16 Tagen

You have been discrediting the accomplishments of anarchists while I have been acknowledging the accomplishments of marxists.

I've been pointing out that anarchists have not managed to put their ideas into practice on any appreciable scale while Marxists have done this. Ultimately, what I'm telling you is that anarchists need to show how they can actually make their ideas work and withstand the challenges that they face in the real world. This is a problem that anarchists have not been able to solve in my view.

You say that it's the fault of Bolsheviks that anarchists didn't get their way in USSR, but there's no reason to believe that anarchists would've fared any better against the capitalist invasion that followed in 1918, or against the nazis a couple of decades later. In fact, the centralization of power that you decried was ultimately what allowed USSR to rapidly industrialize and come out victorious in WW2.

Meanwhile, I completely agree that the socialist projects that Marxists managed to build are not without their own problems. Yet, I think they are a strict improvement over capitalism as imperfect as they may be. My view is that the threat of fascism is very real and that it grows by the day, and in face of that the left should focus on using tools that have been proven to defeat fascism in the past.