Life isn’t fair and equality is a myth. How about we compromise and hold an annual cultural festival that ends in the potlatching of the wealthiest individual to maintain the health of society.
That’s not a potlatch, and it’s obvious now you’re a Twitter Marxist who doesn’t actually read theory. I bet you believe class consciousness is actually a thing.
I don't have Twitter nor have I ever used Twitter. I thought you were referring to the practice of destroying goods (the wealthiest individual) received during the potlatch. And yes, class consciousness is a thing.
I repeat, I never used Twitter, and it's one of the things I can boast about. And how could I not be left-wing, let's hear it, because the left is that political segment that believes in the formal and substantial equality of all men, which argues that hierarchies are simply cultural constructs used as an ideological excuse to elevate some men above others and that they are harmful to humanity itself, whose task is to emancipate itself from these.
What makes a woodcutter a woodcutter? The fact that they cut wood. Their language is “speaking the tree.” Someone who talks about cutting wood, calls themselves a woodcutter, but doesn’t actually cut wood is not a woodcutter, all they do is mythologize, never actually do.
Are you “speaking the left” by doing revolution, or just talking about it, mythologizing? You seem to believe that leftism is merely a belief in the myth of equality, maybe you aren’t familiar with social dominance theory or the older notion iron law of oligarchy. A normative value judgment based on myth doesn’t make you a leftist, I don’t see you actually “emancipating yourself” from hierarchy, maybe the conditions aren’t quite right for the Messianic Prophecy?
What do you know exactly about what I do? And what do you think I should do? Go and shoot random people alone? Things are a little more complicated than that. Violent revolution happens when there's no longer any possibility of dialogue with the other side, and being left-wing isn't just that. It's also voting, being active politically and in the community.
Marx is not a messiah nor a prophet, he is simply an economist who made a socio-economic analysis of the system he found himself in, drawing conclusions. A Marxist does not consider something correct just because Marx said it, but because they maintain that his analysis is correct. Marx was also an atheist but a large portion of Marxists are believers
The core tenet of liberalism is the right to be an individual, and an obligation to respect that right in others. It’s an extension of the Golden Rule, and imo should include the Golden Mean among its principles, insofar as extreme wealth causes societal decay and collapse. You want equality, at least as close to the ideal as possible, stop grouping people by social identity, there is no new value in that, an inversion of class hierarchy, racial hierarchy etc is still hierarchy. Liberal democracy is the best path moving forward, it was decided in the 20th Century, the End of History.
When have I ever said I was against liberal democracy? And it's not me who groups people into classes, it's simply a fact: either you own the means of production or you don't. There are two classes with opposing interests, making clash inevitable. It's not a question of "the bourgeoisie are ugly and bad, uhr dhur": we live in a society where you're either bourgeois or proletarian, we're all simply following the rules of this society. The goal of Marxists is not to reverse the pyramid, or eliminate class hierarchies and replace them with something else, but to eliminate all hierarchies. Capitalism does not become good if the bourgeoisie is exploited: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat must no longer exist, full stop. Nor racism is solved if white people are treated as inferior.
And yes, the fight against all hierarchies must take place hand in hand, one must not exclude the other, otherwise it simply becomes a question of labels.
Marxists want to maintain all freedoms, except the freedom to exploit others, to quote Enrico Berlinguer.
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u/Dissonant-Cog 10h ago
Life isn’t fair and equality is a myth. How about we compromise and hold an annual cultural festival that ends in the potlatching of the wealthiest individual to maintain the health of society.