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People following me on here because of my objectively awesome and correct takes who are then shocked and appalled to discover that I an anarchist and that I genuinely and truly advocate the abolition of the state have forgotten the “objectively awesome and correct” part.
@HeavenlyPossum its so weird to me when someone will agree with me about political/economical stuff until the find out where those ideas come from.
“If we abolish the state, who will protect us from villains like Donald Trump and Elon Musk?!?” bitch I’m begging you to think critically about the state for like half a second
@HeavenlyPossum @squeakypancakes what about Bezos and Zuckerberg?
@alessandro @HeavenlyPossum @squeakypancakes their monetary influence over the state is no less responsible for where we are now
@xale @HeavenlyPossum @squeakypancakes certainly, but I don't think a lack of state would check their power. I for one am a believer in a publicly-held power to prevent unchecked antisocial powers like corporations. I know this ground has been trodden by far smarter people than me but I'm skeptical that anarchism can avoid becoming Ancapistan.
@alessandro @xale @squeakypancakes
They *are* the state, in the sense that they only have power over you because of state violence, and in the sense that the state is an arm of the capital class. When I say “bitch I’m begging you to think critically about the state for even a second” I’m talking to people like you.
*The public does not wield power via the state.* The state is not publicly-held power.
@alessandro @xale @squeakypancakes
Zuckerberg and Bezos only have power because the state coercively guarantees their control over the labor of others.
They have used that power to manipulate elections in their favor and seize control over the dissemination of information to shape public opinion in ways favorable to their politician allies.
They are, fundamentally, two sides of the same coin. The idea that the state somehow represents public power to constrain capitalist elites is just a fundamental misunderstanding of public power, the state, and capitalism.