No shit

Authority first of all is a theoretical authority

How does anyone expect to persuade anyone on our ideas if we act like snobs? It's counterintuitive

@Firefly define theoritial authority?

I was just added, what is this chat?

@danman1950 When a group of theoreticians work hard on raising quality of their theory and crush all the opponents in the theoretical field gaining more trust and leading the less theoretically savvy

Like Lenin did ^__^

you mean an idealogical vanguard?

"Make Russia Great this one time" Vladimir Lenin.

@dontchewglass at first only ideological, but also an organizational.

*krondstadt intensifies*

@Firefly that's not really authoritarian though, it's not blatantly outsing ideas, it's just a replacement. Like how Einsteins theory of relativity didn't replace concepts on relatitivity until it was tested to be proven true.

@danman1950 it is based on centralism and discipline.

are we discussing the vanguard party's role in society? (bit confused reading this)

@Deleted User Кто его знает.

@Firefly Ах, я se.

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(hopefully that's right)

@Firefly i define authority by power structures, i think it's more practitical. to each his own.

@danman1950 power structure is another step after idea structure

same

of course there must be an influential group of dedicated revolutionaries, but authority would be in power structures, hierarchy and the material effects thereof

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what i said?

Debord > u

sorry, i ment @Firefly

i actually included Debord in young adult dystopian novel i'm writing

that's rad

yeah tab completions are total mess in discord

fails 99/100 times

@dontchewglass yeah, i finished the novel awhile ago, now I'm going to edit soon. The main character reads excerpts from the spectacle every once in awhile

that's fuckin awesome man

@dontchewglass i;m trying to brainwash simple minded high school students into complacency of communism XD

I'm working on ideas for two alternate histories and one fantasy novel

careful, if you pile on too many project, you'll never get around to finishing any of them

One is a WW1 alternate history where the war drags on until 1921, causing communist revolutions and an early cold war as opposed to the setup to ww2 in our timeline

And it switches between multiple perspectives including an Irish revolutionary fighting in a british convict battalion who commits mutiny and helps a Catalonian revolution, a german draftee who joins the Spartacists out of a desire for peace, a Spanish 19 year old fighting for the monarchy, and a black American medic from Louisiana

that sounds like it would be difficult to write, but it's definitly worth to write about!

but basically, the war ends due to a successful Luxemburgist revolution, France becomes an authoritarian anti-communist state de facto controlled by the military clique, a east/west split Spain, a proxy war between leftists and fascists in Italy, and an absolute shitstorm in the former Ottoman empire

So the leftist side of this new cold war includes the USSR, Germany, Ireland (post war of independence), East Spain, Italian rebel enclaves and possibly the new Yugoslavia?

sounds like you built a pretty lively world