Your comment makes no sense. ~~You came at me because I used the term lib. You know I’m the moderator here, right? 😂~~

~~I’m not going to ban you. I may even sticky you as the quintessential example of what I’m saying here.~~

edit: blatant mischaracterization and demonstration of hypocrisy on my part

~~Oh look an identity politics brainwashed smug lib right on cue!~~

I’m guessing you think I’m a Republican or a Trumper or something. I assure you. I’m not.

~~It’s just your brainwashing that causes you to see things in such partisan terms.~~

I’m actually a leftist ~~(evidently far more leftist than you)~~ that is sick of other people ~~(EXACTLY like you)~~ cosplaying as a leftist then actively encouraging their politicians to be above the law because they have been so ideologically brainwashed that they can’t see the issues in giving ANYONE extrajudicial power.

edit: blatant mischaracterization and demonstration of hypocrisy on my part

I think on a small scale, communities are self-governing and anarchism can work well.
I have seen evidence of this.

In my current understanding of this admittedly SUPER complex topic, the problem perhaps lies in the overpopulation by way of capitalist expansion.

It feels (if you won't shame for attempting to take a stab in the dark at a reason) like at the scale of modern society, community policing can lead to an uptick in crime.

I have seen it in VT, CA, OR, and other places where this transition to a less punitive society is taking place. Ideologically, I actually wish for a society like that...but then I go to Brattleboro VT and get robbed at gunpoint by some guy who has been released from jail 2 times this month. I agree that ACAB. But then, I also want peace and I don't want to have to fear for my safety when what we asked for is given to us.

I wish I had an answer...frankly, I have a hard time coming to terms with the real-world implementations of some of my ideas like this one. I want to eliminate the disgusting white supremacist police...but I also want to prevent Proud Boys from murdering me.

There are some important distinctions in my own ideology that prevent me from characterizing myself as an outright anarchist. For one, I do believe in the rule of law (to a certain extent in that I can scarcely imagine a fully anarchist society where murder and robberies are not rampant).

I also believe in state-funded fire departments, educational systems (with controls built in to prevent ideological brainwashing), roads, utilities, etc. So, I stop short of calling myself a Democratic Socialist because I think that that ideology is fraught with capitalist apologia (and actual sheepdogging for the capitalist class as perpetrated by AOC and Bernie as of late). But I am certainly not an Anarchist in the traditional sense of that word.

GREAT answer!

External hostility often pushed socialist regimes toward authoritarian measures.

THIS. This is THE reason most Marxists give for the necessity of authoritarianism in the first stages of transition to a Communist society.

Someone please correct me if I am misunderstaning or mischaracterizing this ideology:

From my limited understanding (because enthusiastic support for mass executions of anti-communists caused me to totally abandon it as a viable ideology) Lenin posited that it was necessary to violently rid the world of capitalist tendencies by force in order to protect the slow transition to the collectivist utopia he envisioned. This is my biggest problem with Marxism....or perhaps the brand of Marxism that has been adopted.

My background: I consider myself a libertarian socialist at the moment. I wholeheartedly agree that capitalism will kill our planet but I am not willing to support an autoritarian regime that promises to execute or imprison its critics for life (which both the US and China do ALL THE TIME). From my limited understanding, Marx didn't start there but was "radicalized" into firmly believing that the only way to get capitalists to go along with his plan is to eliminate them from society. The authoritarian behaviour reportedly came about from a very real need to prevent capitalists from meddling in order to protect their consumer ideology throughout the world.

If I am wrong, the people on hexbear have also misunderstood it. They believe that the only way to the utopia they want is through China's authoritarian methods. Their support for China is about as pervasive there as lemmy.world's support for DLC style neoliberal globalism.

My first GitHub block!

If you stray from world, things are a bit better. World, however, hasn’t seen a ban or anti-free speech action they didn’t embrace fully. World is a cesspool of smug libs that refuse to engage with anyone they perceive to be on their left or right.

It’s a valid claim, IMO. The libs leaving Twitter all seem to be VERY into Orwellian practices like “official block lists” and other absurd self-owns.

Wow. Even worse! Haha.

That’s it.

Blame ANYTHING other than the incredibly corrupt and impotent Demcoratic Party and the election rules that make it virtually impossible for the winner to come from outside of one of the two PRIVATELY OWNED, GENOCIDAL, CORPORATIST parties.