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  • Yes it does still collectivize production; it just does so in a decentralized method. You don’t need centralized authority to be a collectivist.

    You have no understanding of what anarchism is.

    Oh and of course, the lame fallacy that because it failed it means it can never be a thing. Tell me again how that worked out for the communist projects around the world? Oh, right, those imperialist nations totally don’t have clear class distinctions and any day now they will just willfully give up their newly gained authority over the masses… any day now…


  • Bruh, you’re taking a metaphor at face value instead of just understanding that it is, yes, a simple slogan meant to represent a much larger idea. A very common anarchist slogan, in fact.

    It wasn’t meant to be a point. It isn’t an argument against any of what you stated because it isn’t itself an argument. It is just a slogan that represents a more in-depth point.

    No, the proletariat cannot just use systems of oppression and hope it withers against its fundamental design. That’s just naive, wishful thinking that doesn’t understand how the system works to reinforce itself.

    Tools also depend on their design to function in a specific way. You can try to saw away at a tree with a hammer all day but you’ll never cut it down. So the answer isn’t to use their tools to do something they weren’t designed to do but to build/use different tools altogether.


  • If you remove the system that allows them to gain authority over necessities and dictate how others access resources that should be communally available then you fundamentally remove their ability to be able to oppress you and your community.

    by asking nicely,

    I didn’t say you ask nicely. Nice try misrepresenting my argument because you can’t understand it.

    What you are literally talking about is that we tried using the tools of the masters and instead of making a better society we just changed who was at the helm of the oppressive system. Thanks for proving my point.







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    I wasn’t explaining the difference between anarchism and communism.

    I was explaining how the quoted text is why we currently live under a hegemony of capitalst republics. So it has already been proven to be the most viable method, which is to undermine their authority and build up your own from the bottom up, of overthrowing a hierarchical power.

    Though to your confusion, the difference I believe you are missing is in how they structure their systems of authority.

    One says they will retain the system of the state to ensure their authority and dismantle it later after we have achieved majority while the other says that we must preconfigure the societal systems we want to see in the here and now while simultaneously removing ourselves from the current system.