Message from @Sampuka

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2017-07-03 23:41:40 UTC  

That doesn't mean everything is possible

2017-07-03 23:41:50 UTC  

You doubt something can change

2017-07-03 23:41:57 UTC  

I oppose it

2017-07-03 23:42:01 UTC  

Nope

2017-07-03 23:42:35 UTC  

You said that change exists

2017-07-03 23:42:38 UTC  

I agree

2017-07-03 23:42:49 UTC  

>I genuinely believe that it virtually can't go past authoritarianism

2017-07-03 23:43:26 UTC  

The specific system yeah

2017-07-03 23:43:26 UTC  

It always does. And in fact did

2017-07-03 23:43:39 UTC  

perhaps I should add "and work"

2017-07-03 23:43:49 UTC  

Perhaps

2017-07-03 23:44:07 UTC  

I wish there was an example of classless, stateless, moneyless etc sosciety

2017-07-03 23:44:20 UTC  

But it never goes there

2017-07-03 23:44:51 UTC  

there is if you look far enough back

2017-07-03 23:44:53 UTC  

I think all intellectuals, no matter where they are on the spectrum, the somehow trivialize reality, that it's far more complex and multivariable and dynamic

2017-07-03 23:45:04 UTC  

what marx calls primitive communism iirc

2017-07-03 23:45:12 UTC  

from before slave societies began

2017-07-03 23:45:39 UTC  

but that's not useful though, because it has to sustain all external and internal interference

2017-07-03 23:45:45 UTC  

back then societies were simpler

2017-07-03 23:45:51 UTC  

less connected to the world

2017-07-03 23:45:57 UTC  

it isnt very useful, no

2017-07-03 23:46:31 UTC  

and isolated cases don't count, because I can get 10 ancaps, 10 ancoms and put them in their respective islands and because they'd be firm believers of their ideology, it would work for some time

2017-07-03 23:46:49 UTC  

the point is to work for all people, with different mindsets and endure over time

2017-07-03 23:47:10 UTC  

also your point about trivilizing reality; this has to happen in order to theorize it

2017-07-03 23:47:13 UTC  

I don't think marxist doctrine provides that

2017-07-03 23:47:29 UTC  

it has to happen, agreed, but why would you accept it?

2017-07-03 23:47:40 UTC  

because I want some way of thinking about reality

2017-07-03 23:47:51 UTC  

no, you misunderstood my point

2017-07-03 23:48:21 UTC  

You do that when the doubt is little, the cost is bearable

2017-07-03 23:48:35 UTC  

you don't go jumping from your balcony on little evidence you could fly

2017-07-03 23:48:45 UTC  

exaggerated example but I hope you understand

2017-07-03 23:49:07 UTC  

you're saying that it trivializes reality so much that it doesn't really apply to reality in any meaningful way?

2017-07-03 23:49:25 UTC  

taht most political theories aren't robust enough so you can BET entire nations and millions of lives because something sounds nice

2017-07-03 23:49:47 UTC  

political change should be very careful, at least now that we can afford it

2017-07-03 23:49:52 UTC  

we can be smart about it

2017-07-03 23:50:43 UTC  

theories aren't something to be tried, they merely attempt to describe reality. You can use these theories to create fx socialism, but marxism is not a set of affairs to be established

2017-07-03 23:50:48 UTC  

why be attached so strongly to a set of rules that was forged century ago

2017-07-03 23:51:27 UTC  

>theories aren't something to be tried, they merely attempt to describe reality.
I'm not against this

2017-07-03 23:52:05 UTC  

then it doesn't make sense to say you can bet nations and lives on a theory

2017-07-03 23:52:08 UTC  

My issue is that clearly marxist mindset isn't enough to describe reality and we have plenty of disciplines to supplement and change it but most people don't want to

2017-07-03 23:52:23 UTC  

sociology, psychology, complex economics, geopolitical dynamics etc