• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    18 hours ago

    Especially on an ml instance. I’m waiting for some bozo to post Engels’ “on authority” again.

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      3 hours ago

      I do think hating socialist states with the same or worse ferocity that capitalist states get is a serious misjudgement. Administration is necessary for large scale production and distribution, whether you count that as a state or not. Communism as a stateless, classless, moneyless society would have no class, but would still have administration.

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        1 hour ago

        I’ve tried to explain to you for soo many times that anarchists argue that administration does not equal a command-and-control authority.

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          36 minutes ago

          Some cases need binding control, especially related to industrial environments and hazardous working conditions. We develop methods of organizing and structuring ourselves often because it’s useful, not because it benefits the person with a broader scope of responsibility, kinda like strategians vs tacticians. Those in these positions can be elected, chosen based on merit, etc, and will serve for greater prosperity than had these positions been avoided out of a moral objection to hierarchy.

    • ML’s explicitly are anti-state and believe it to be in charge of managing irreconcilable class differences so it must be destroyed and replaced with something else. This is written explicitly in Lenin’s State and Revolution.

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        Almost, MLs understand that the state is necessary until class is abolished, so what replaces the bourgeois state is a proletarian state that withers with respect to collectivization of production and distribution. Revolution for MLs doesn’t get rid of the state overnight, but creates a new state that cannot but wither.