Yes, but the cultural identity will outlive the national one when the state dissolves, it has millenniums of cultural inertia behind it after all. I don't forsee any future anti-capitalists getting in the way of, for example, Eisteddfod gatherings or couples exchanging love spoons.
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I think a key place where we are disagreeing is in the nature of Welsh identity. I don't view it as a national identity but rather a cultural one. Even once all states have been dissolved, Welsh identity will likely persist through our language and traditions.
I realise that I'm using nationalist in a context that you're probably unfamiliar with.
When I say Welsh nationalism I'm using this definition - "advocacy of or support for the political independence of a particular nation or people."
As opposed to the definition you're likely more familiar with -"identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."
Now for how I Square these two otherwise inconsistent political goals:
It is a complicated process and I don't doubt that the Welsh nationalist movement may present some hurdles in the long run to the dissolution of state hierarchy. But the way I see it is like this:
UK parliament controls the entire UK, there's the senedd in Wales and the Scottish parliament but ultimately they only have the power to make minor adjustments to laws (such as change the speed limit slightly).
As such, any revolution that occurs in Wales has to contend not just with the local bourgeois but also from the bourgeois of the United Kingdom as a whole.
Now two possible tactics exist in this situation:
- revolution across the whole UK at once.
Or
- Wales separates from the UK and then undergoes revolution.
Of the two of those, I believe the latter outcome is more likely to succeed.
Sorry for the huge wall of text.
As I said before, only while states exist.
Welsh nationalism as a short-term project, because the structure of the UK gives ultimate control to the houses of parliament (a largely unelected seat of power), if any form of communism, let alone anarchist communism, is to be successfully built in Wales we must first be free from direct interference by our neighbours.
I'm an anarchocommunist.
While states still exist, I am a Welsh nationalist because independence from the UK is the only way we can stave off English attempts to undermine the senedd and Welsh democracy as a whole.
There's a sequel/reboot of Madness: Project Nexus currently in early access on Steam.
Will have to dig up a link to it, but the Silent Hill foreskin guy is a classic.
This just sounds like survivorship bias with extra steps.
Which 1/8? And is it a horizontal slice or a vertical one?
Mostly vaccine misinfo.
Stick this up as a poster in a sci-fi convention and watch the ensuing brawl.
Private property will not exist under anarchism, since private property (read the means of production) will be placed into the collective hands of those who need it.
Capitalism requires the maintenance of involuntary hierarchies (like that between the owner and worker) and thus is antithetical to anarchism.
The ultimate goal of communism is the dissolution of state, this is something even MLs agree on.
"Engels suggested to Bebel that all chatter about the state be dropped altogether, that the word “state” be eliminated from the programme altogether and the word “community” substituted for it. Engels even declared that the Commune was long a state in the proper sense of the word. Yet Marx even spoke of the "future state in communist society", i.e., he would seem to recognize the need for the state even under communism.
But such a view would be fundamentally wrong. A closer examination shows that Marx's and Engels' views on the state and its withering away were completely identical, and that Marx's expression quoted above refers to the state in the process of withering away."
If you wouldn't mind me making an assumption, it appears that you have very little knowledge of anarchism's philosophical framework. I can give you some reading suggestions if you'd like.