Message from @not_matt

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2017-06-04 21:02:19 UTC  

like the media, excessive hours of labour, education on economics (mainstream economics) working against us

2017-06-04 21:02:21 UTC  

thats what im saying @senfood

2017-06-04 21:02:26 UTC  

this is erased in a socialist society

2017-06-04 21:02:32 UTC  

Even if it's effective initially, it will erode over time

2017-06-04 21:02:36 UTC  

unjustified hierarchies are unjust, no matter how much they claim to represent justice

2017-06-04 21:02:45 UTC  

Nothing is completely erased.

2017-06-04 21:02:53 UTC  

when the conditions are there

2017-06-04 21:03:12 UTC  

we wouldn't need a vanguard if all people had been educated on marxist science and economics

2017-06-04 21:03:16 UTC  

It's incredibly doubtful

2017-06-04 21:03:26 UTC  

you don't need a vanguard

2017-06-04 21:03:39 UTC  

super elitist to think working class people cant grasp the ideas without a helping hand

2017-06-04 21:03:40 UTC  

That's assuming that nobody would question it or even outright reject it

2017-06-04 21:03:50 UTC  

It doesn't take into account straight up contrarians

2017-06-04 21:03:54 UTC  

by vanguard I don't mean an elite party isolated

2017-06-04 21:04:16 UTC  

The soviets had assemblies with Lenin

2017-06-04 21:04:22 UTC  

they did

2017-06-04 21:04:28 UTC  

but the assemblies should be *it*

2017-06-04 21:04:41 UTC  

unions, laborers, the people themselves

2017-06-04 21:04:44 UTC  

but then they were picky, Stalin tried to introduce reforms so the delegates could be elected from the assemblies and not from the party

2017-06-04 21:04:51 UTC  

but too late and Khruschevite revisionism entered

2017-06-04 21:05:26 UTC  

and there's the unjust power structure

2017-06-04 21:05:34 UTC  

yes

2017-06-04 21:05:50 UTC  

so we have to remove it as soon as possible after the education and horizontal structures are set up

2017-06-04 21:06:09 UTC  

people don't just give up power voluntarily

2017-06-04 21:06:42 UTC  

once a power structure is in place, the power has to be taken back

2017-06-04 21:07:04 UTC  

so then you just revolution again

2017-06-04 21:07:15 UTC  

against the people supposedly defending you as an extension of your interests

2017-06-04 21:07:32 UTC  

when ultimately the goal is abolishing unjust power structures, categorically

2017-06-04 21:07:54 UTC  

There are two trends in anarchism: synthetism, which has all the individual trends of anarchism from the perspective of the person; and platformism, which uses discipline, collective responsability and has theoretical unity

2017-06-04 21:07:58 UTC  

i spat with zielgarat about vanguardism too haha

2017-06-04 21:08:17 UTC  

in the second case, the people has to give authority to a committee, the same with a leninist party

2017-06-04 21:09:03 UTC  

I don't think we need a revolution again, we should make a plan so the people can dismantle the state legally and let them having guns

2017-06-04 21:09:22 UTC  

but then you're relying on reformism to take down power structures

2017-06-04 21:09:26 UTC  

why bother?

2017-06-04 21:09:34 UTC  

why not just let the workers *be* the movement

2017-06-04 21:09:51 UTC  

so they consent, and after revolution when all is set up; we can set up the horizontal structures... if something went wrong people have guns

2017-06-04 21:10:43 UTC  

im still not convinced

2017-06-04 21:11:08 UTC  

there's no reformism because we aren't reforming capitalism

2017-06-04 21:11:46 UTC  

but a "plan" for the state to give up power is asking those in power to relinquish power

2017-06-04 21:11:59 UTC  

rather than *taking* it for the people

2017-06-04 21:13:38 UTC  

im not actually sure if we're disagreeing,