I’ll be a honest a lot of that was pretty flowery for me, but theres some stuff in there that was really interesting and I appreciate you sharing your perspective with me! ☺️
It does feel like revolutionary communists (that seems like a better label for me to use :) also purity test for some of the same reasons everyone does- to dismiss the stances they see as outside of their group. Thats more the purity testing I find it hard to navigate. The implication in one of the previous comments is that a socdem is really just a liberal, and a liberal is capitalist, and a capitalist is really just a fascist so actually you’re a fascist. Which I don’t think is really ever a particularly useful beyond dismissing the need to ever engage with that person. I get why, but the way I see it you can just say that a socdem has bad ideology. It doesn’t require comparison to a fascist, which I don’t really think is accurate, though the other reply about social democrats and demsocs siding with capitalism when revolution is on the table makes sense, and I can see why that would make revolutionary communists uninterested in engaging
And thats interesting! Anarchism I think is what I most intuitively feel drawn to, but I don’t feel like there are some things I see it struggling to achieve, and I understand political theory well enough to truly identify with any ideology so I’m just trying to learn more and see where it takes me
If I may ask a question (don’t feel obligated to answer, I know I’m showing up in other people’s spaces and just interrogating folks to learn lol 😅)- a lot of what I find intimidating about ideologies or governments that would fall into the revolutionary communist category is that through the perspective I have now, they seem authoritarian and I generally (as one might guess from interest in anarchism) lean anti-authoritarian. What kind of actual governmental structure (or structures) in terms of power do revolutionary communists seek? How does power get organized? Are there ways that they structurally seek to counterbalance the way that concentrated power leads to overreach (like in western capitalist society democracy is ostensibly supposed to fill that role)? Like can revolutionary communism be Democratic? Are there reasons that doesnt seem like a concern to you for other reasons I may not have considered? (I don’t really mean to ask 30 seperate questions, I just wanna leave things open ended to whatever kind of answer makes the most sense, and I don’t know what kinda answer that might be)
And/or I would also welcome thoughts on what you mean by “applying the scientific method to all of reality”, that idea sounds interesting but its too abstract for me to know what that might actually mean in practice
Regardless of whether you choose to chat more thanks for taking the time to reply with your previous comment ☺️
I’ll be a honest a lot of that was pretty flowery for me, but theres some stuff in there that was really interesting and I appreciate you sharing your perspective with me! ☺️
It does feel like revolutionary communists (that seems like a better label for me to use :) also purity test for some of the same reasons everyone does- to dismiss the stances they see as outside of their group. Thats more the purity testing I find it hard to navigate. The implication in one of the previous comments is that a socdem is really just a liberal, and a liberal is capitalist, and a capitalist is really just a fascist so actually you’re a fascist. Which I don’t think is really ever a particularly useful beyond dismissing the need to ever engage with that person. I get why, but the way I see it you can just say that a socdem has bad ideology. It doesn’t require comparison to a fascist, which I don’t really think is accurate, though the other reply about social democrats and demsocs siding with capitalism when revolution is on the table makes sense, and I can see why that would make revolutionary communists uninterested in engaging
And thats interesting! Anarchism I think is what I most intuitively feel drawn to, but I don’t feel like there are some things I see it struggling to achieve, and I understand political theory well enough to truly identify with any ideology so I’m just trying to learn more and see where it takes me
If I may ask a question (don’t feel obligated to answer, I know I’m showing up in other people’s spaces and just interrogating folks to learn lol 😅)- a lot of what I find intimidating about ideologies or governments that would fall into the revolutionary communist category is that through the perspective I have now, they seem authoritarian and I generally (as one might guess from interest in anarchism) lean anti-authoritarian. What kind of actual governmental structure (or structures) in terms of power do revolutionary communists seek? How does power get organized? Are there ways that they structurally seek to counterbalance the way that concentrated power leads to overreach (like in western capitalist society democracy is ostensibly supposed to fill that role)? Like can revolutionary communism be Democratic? Are there reasons that doesnt seem like a concern to you for other reasons I may not have considered? (I don’t really mean to ask 30 seperate questions, I just wanna leave things open ended to whatever kind of answer makes the most sense, and I don’t know what kinda answer that might be)
And/or I would also welcome thoughts on what you mean by “applying the scientific method to all of reality”, that idea sounds interesting but its too abstract for me to know what that might actually mean in practice
Regardless of whether you choose to chat more thanks for taking the time to reply with your previous comment ☺️