It’s because the state is also an oppressive force. I wonder why you come across lots of libertarians and lots of socialists but not so much the combination of the two (toward realities alternative to both state and capital)
I don't know why, but my spouse is a health care worker in long term care for the elderly. She tells me how nearly everyone in their care are either mentally in decline or physically, never both. And those that are both, don't live long.
Anyways, since the state is a tool of oppression and the state should reflect the will of the people, it'd be nice if people chose negative things to oppress like extreme inequality, rampant exploitation, and extortion (looking at you healthcare system aka "your money or your life" highway robbers).
And yet if non-government-level American society wasn't so constantly self-focused at the expense of others, the state would be far less needed!
Are other countries as dysfunctional in terms of voting themselves policies that aren't consistent with our internal behaviors? E.g. "someone" should do something about homelessness but I don't want to see it?
History is not quite like computing, at least in terms of having a compiler and syntax/semantics matter (and are machine-verified).
Other than digesting a whole ton of history at once--or debating ChatGPT--how do you establish your axis or "quadrants" of political lean?
I wish there were a way to systematically track voting record. We're never in the room where it happens, so it can be difficult to tell if a political compromise is for a future favor, or part of a consistent policy position.
Anarchist interests would look for voting records as a negative sign regardless of position. the person you’re replying to is correct that the combination of libertarian and socialist is anarchist. Libertarian Communist is a common flavor of anarchist being both anti state and anti capital
This link rejects the equivalence, but I don't really know. Could you clarify the distinction?
> socialist economics but have an aversion to vanguard parties. Anarchy is a whole lot more than economics.
> To identify as an anarchist is to take a strong stance against all authority, while... other such milquetoast labels take no such stance, leaving the door open to all kinds of authority, with the only real concern being democracy in the workplace.
Yes libertarian communist is a common flavor of anarchism and what I was hinting at. The word has a bad reputation and lots of misunderstanding so I’m trying to find new ways of talking about it…
There are other legitimate flavors of anarchism as well outside libcom.
