Okay but what if I just like the runic script and ancient Rome and medieval Rome and early modern Rome and whatever the fuck the Pontic Greeks were doing Rome?
Given the fact I don’t like power as a baseline either wielded by mine self or others, I’m gonna disagree. Power corrupts inevitably so thusly to prevent corruption we must prevent people from having power over eachother as much as possible, within reason at least don’t think anyone is bitching about paramedics having the power to give someone anesthesia.
I was just joking you can like those things, I have an interest in a lot of stuff. Be curious, learn history and culture, its an improvement over the garbage we are force fed in public schools.
I don’t agree with the ol “power corrupts so power bad” mindset. It’s learned helplessness. Workers need to become very interested in building power for ourselves as a class. Of course its rife with problems, the 20th century was disaster after disaster wrt socialist politics. Some bright spots, but it didnt pan out. Granted, I am not an anarchist, I know lots of anarchists who organize pretty darn well while pretending they aren’t building power.
But we can’t pretend, we have to deal with facts. How are going to create a better world without a comprehensive theory of power? Its pure idealism and I don’t have time for that.
But educating yourself, being interested in something like ancient Rome, and then building on it and educating is probably the best way forward for a lot of people.
I just have an issue with the neoclassicism of all these slave owning founders, who didn’t understand what the romans also didn’t understand about their society: the basis of all their progress and success is the slave labor they compel to carry it out.
If you don’t want to be called a fascist, simply do not behave like a fascist. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
Before you take any action, simply ask yourself, “Is this something that a fascist would do?”
Okay but what if I just like the runic script and ancient Rome and medieval Rome and early modern Rome and whatever the fuck the Pontic Greeks were doing Rome?
Well then you are of the same ilk as the illustrious founders of our great nation, which is to say, a fascist
Given the fact I don’t like power as a baseline either wielded by mine self or others, I’m gonna disagree. Power corrupts inevitably so thusly to prevent corruption we must prevent people from having power over eachother as much as possible, within reason at least don’t think anyone is bitching about paramedics having the power to give someone anesthesia.
I was just joking you can like those things, I have an interest in a lot of stuff. Be curious, learn history and culture, its an improvement over the garbage we are force fed in public schools.
I don’t agree with the ol “power corrupts so power bad” mindset. It’s learned helplessness. Workers need to become very interested in building power for ourselves as a class. Of course its rife with problems, the 20th century was disaster after disaster wrt socialist politics. Some bright spots, but it didnt pan out. Granted, I am not an anarchist, I know lots of anarchists who organize pretty darn well while pretending they aren’t building power.
But we can’t pretend, we have to deal with facts. How are going to create a better world without a comprehensive theory of power? Its pure idealism and I don’t have time for that.
But educating yourself, being interested in something like ancient Rome, and then building on it and educating is probably the best way forward for a lot of people.
I just have an issue with the neoclassicism of all these slave owning founders, who didn’t understand what the romans also didn’t understand about their society: the basis of all their progress and success is the slave labor they compel to carry it out.