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Puldania wrote:

Torrocca wrote:
*Revolutionary Catalonia intensifies*

Petition to reinstate revolutionary Catalonia as a separate entity of Spain

Torrocca wrote:

Puldania wrote:Petition to reinstate revolutionary Catalonia as a separate entity of Spain

Turn the whole world into Revolutionary Catalonia *nod*

Torrocca wrote:

Puldania wrote:Petition to reinstate revolutionary Catalonia as a separate entity of Spain

Turn the whole world into Revolutionary Catalonia *nod*

Northern Davincia wrote:

Torrocca wrote:
Turn the whole world into Revolutionary Catalonia *nod*

Please don't make me miss Franco.

Puldania wrote:

Torrocca wrote:
Turn the whole world into Revolutionary Catalonia *nod*

Revolutionary Catalonia has inherited Russia

Puldania wrote:

Torrocca wrote:
*Revolutionary Catalonia intensifies*

Petition to reinstate revolutionary Catalonia as a separate entity of Spain

Torrocca wrote:

Northern Davincia wrote:Please don't make me miss Franco.

This time, there won't be a Franco to save you :^)

Puldania wrote:Revolutionary Catalonia has inherited Russia

Russia? What do you mean Russia? There is only Revolutionary International Catalonia.

Dumb Ideologies wrote:

Puldania wrote:Petition to reinstate revolutionary Catalonia as a separate entity of Spain

Put it in a giant zorb so that it remains forever revolutionary and Stalin can't get in.

Torrocca wrote:The class struggle is a socioeconomic issue and by necessity requires intersectionality.

Cekoviu wrote:So... how about those trade unions? Don't you just love 'em?

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:

Cekoviu wrote:So... how about those trade unions? Don't you just love 'em?

My family was a union family, and I belong to the largest union in the U.S.

Northern Davincia wrote:Please don't make me miss Franco.

Puldania wrote:

The Parkus Empire wrote:Constitution Amendment guaranteeing the right of closed shop when

Constitutional Amendment abolishing the federal government when

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:

Northern Davincia wrote:Please don't make me miss Franco.

I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

Valgora wrote:The IWW?

The Parkus Empire wrote:

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:
I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

Fascism gets more sympathy from him than a crippled kitten when there's a choice between it and communism.

Valgora wrote:

The Parkus Empire wrote:Fascism gets more sympathy from him than a crippled kitten when there's a choice between it and communism.

That would imply he's actually an authoritarian statist.
Because that would be choosing an oppressive state over a stateless, classless society.

The Parkus Empire wrote:

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:
I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

Fascism gets more sympathy from him than a crippled kitten when there's a choice between it and communism.

The Parkus Empire wrote:Fascism gets more sympathy from him than a crippled kitten when there's a choice between it and communism.

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:

Northern Davincia wrote:Please don't make me miss Franco.

I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

Cekoviu wrote:

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:
I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

he's a rightlib, what did you expect? :^)

The Parkus Empire wrote:

Valgora wrote:That would imply he's actually an authoritarian statist.
Because that would be choosing an oppressive state over a stateless, classless society.

We all know how communist governments detest oppression and authoritarianism. :^)

The Parkus Empire wrote:

Valgora wrote:That would imply he's actually an authoritarian statist.
Because that would be choosing an oppressive state over a stateless, classless society.

We all know how communist governments detest oppression and authoritarianism. :^)

Valgora wrote:

The Parkus Empire wrote:We all know how communist governments detest oppression and authoritarianism. :^)

No communist government has ever existed.

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:

Northern Davincia wrote:Please don't make me miss Franco.

I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

The Parkus Empire wrote:

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:
I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

Fascism gets more sympathy from him than a crippled kitten when there's a choice between it and communism.

Cekoviu wrote:

The Multiversal Communist Collective wrote:
I didn't know you were a fascist or a fascist-sympathizer.

he's a rightlib, what did you expect? :^)

Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol wrote:

The New Sea Territory wrote:
I think the only issue I have with this is what we mean by "individualist". I would say I am a radical individualist, probably more radical than most people who use that term.

I think the individual who remains uncritical when observing their surroundings does a disservice to their individuality. But this is exactly what an individualist who continues to revolve around liberal values, or indeed values at all, does both theoretically and practically. They do not recognize that their individuality is not their own, but is a product of the various ideological systems within our society which manufacture for them a "self", a persona they embody and uncritically claim as their own. For example, LGBT identity becoming accepted by liberal capitalism does mean a "liberation from hate", but only for the benefit of capitalists. LGBT identity becomes another commodity or another market.

The uncritical individualist's "self" is a commodity, hence 'self-ownership', hence self-exchange in the sense of selling one's labor for a wage. These are as "individualist" as arbeit macht frei was an escape....in no way whatsoever.

Rather, it is the Unique, the kind of being for which their is no comparison or manufactured self, the kind of individual who is not a subject, who can look on all the world as their own, and set forth a political project based on their own liberation. It's not simply saying "I want to be free from X or to do Y", but that my freedom is for myself. Freedom is only a means to my own ends. It's not simply saying "I wish to create my own values", but that the very discourse of values has as its foundations the language of metaphysics which must be deconstructed.

I think Wilde's provocative statement about socialism holds true: "The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody." Once we must not live "for" anyone else, our freedom can be solely for ourselves. And this, to me, necessitates class struggle, among other things like LGBT, Black or even national liberation struggles.

Ah, but see, I value the idea of self-ownership. I guess as a right-libertarian, we are not going to agree on the benefits and/or harms of capitalism, like at all. But I think that it plays a part. See, the reason why I embrace Libertarian view of individualism is because I see it as the great defense for self preservation and defending my existence. When one is rejected from the communities that they belong to or identify with, then this gives rise and reason for a person to adopt individualist worldview.