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When did I say it’s authoritarian?
For fuck’s sake. Do I have to DRAG you every step of the way, here? You invoked horseshoe theory, and said anarchism and fascism both rely on “gangs of thugs” to keep people in line and quell dissent. So I can concede you didn’t use the word authoritarian, but you described it the way anyone would. You implied anarchism has to use force. What else do I need?
Yes, because Antifa are gangs of thugs no different from the Brownshirts
Oh, so you’ve flipped again, huh? Just can’t make up your mind whether anarchists are thugs or wide eyed idealists.
Does this not seem like a contradiction, to you?
Idealism can make you do violent acts when putting it into practice
Which is why socialism is based on materialism, not idealism. You got dangerously close to making a point. Are you feeling okay? Still wasn’t relevant to what I said, though - how do you reconcile your view of anarchists as violent thugs, with the view of them as soft pushovers with no backbone?
Let me give you a hint - this specific contradictory view of leftists has its roots in fascist ideology:
“Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation.”
Socialism claims to be based on materialism, yet is a Manichean and quasi-messianic religion
This only tells me you haven’t bothered to read any socialist theory - even a skim of a youtube video could tell you that all socialist claims are about material reality. Material conditions are central to socialist philosophy. Have you never heard of historical materialism, or dialectical materialism?
And to suggest that it boils reality down to a battle of good and evil is… just baffling. Socialism relies on no moral claims whatsoever. Capitalism is simply irrational. Its mechanism just don’t work. Morality doesn’t even need to come up in discussion.
Yes, it’s all simplified to a battle between good workers and evil exploiters, and a messianic prophecy of the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the stablishment of communism