Bit Idea: We all choose random ideologies and argue with libs insisting we're the real ideology of Hexbear and everyone else is a wrecker or troll.
Dibs on unironic Posadism.
Let's get some Georgists and Monarchists in the thread.
I would gladly argue for a system of governance based around swords handed out by watery tarts
I saw that initially, but couldn't figure out how to see the text after it loads the image.
Corvid supremacist. I think crows and ravens should rule the world and I dedicate my life to trying to enable mass corvid to human communication
Unfortunately if this were the case I'd be indistinguishable from your average Alex Jones supporter
No, I insist that we ban Georgism from this bit. There are enough real Georgists floating around Lemmy that I don't want to give them the satisfaction that their bullshit "one weird trick" is even a real ideology like Posadism or Fourierism.
Georgism is like if you sent a guy from 1890 who had vaguely heard of socialism back in time to 1790, and he got drunk and tried to articulate the idea to someone without outing himself as a time traveler, and someone overheard that conversation and decided to form a program.
I have seen several pop in to federated discussions. Mostly on Lemmygrad, and disproportionately from programming.dev. As it seems to be a certain type of leftist inclined tech-bro's belief in technocratic tweaks fixing things.
Also, only slightly related, but Georgist Twitter is a thing that exists with a decent amount of accounts and @as_a_worker (Antifada podcast host) routinely dunks on.
Georgism is an obscure ideology based around the writings of 19th century economist Henry George, who argued that a host of social problems emerge due to inequalities in the distribution of land and other natural resources, and his solution was to impose a land value tax based on the value of unimproved land. His seminal work, Progress and Poverty, made a couple valid points, including a refutation of Malthusianism and a thesis that technological development could not solve poverty under the current exploitative system, and he popularized the economic concept that later became known as "externalities." It had a moment where it was hugely popular, and it inspired a lot of Progressive Era and New Deal reformers in the US. However, he was writing around the same time as Marx, and his arguments lacked an understanding of class interests.
George claimed that he had, "united the truth perceived by the school of Smith and Ricardo to the truth perceived by the schools of Proudhon and Lasalle," and he seemed to believe that it was possible to unite proletariat and bourgeois interests against that of landowners (despite the significant overlap and unity of interests between bourgeoisie and landowners) in order to reform the system. That strategy is the reason why you haven't heard of it, because Georgists have often resisted cooperation with the left in hopes of appealing to other liberals/capitalists, who generally dismiss them as socialists anyway. And of course, I can point to any number of examples of governments that attempted to reclaim their natural resources for the public good and were overthrown by CIA coups.
Today, it's popular among weird cranks who want to find a technical policy solution that doesn't require confronting power directly. Its central thesis, that the proposed reform would fix everything, is also its own refutation - if it fixes the problem, then the interests that benefit from the problem would never allow it to be passed.
I just ask them what they think communism is and then I say "you're absolutely right" and defend whatever they said.
Have you considered that the old people pushing the trains might be happy?
"The DPRK's just doing that to ensure fitness. They see how obesity is such a problem in other countries and are trying to prevent that at home."
Have you considered that the old people pushing the trains might be happy?
DPRK Foucault is a golden bit
I subscribe to tankieism. It's all about tanks. I support any state that currently has the most tanks.
The Romans were closest to the truth. We are the real gods--we who reside on Mount Olympus. Hexbear is only a collection of covert cults dedicated to us. If it looks like communism is the dominant ideology here, that is only because communism is objectively, divinely correct.
Killing people who wear glasses is communism, and the more people who wear glasses you kill, the more communist it is.
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That's the one I've been thinking of! I've looked for it for so long, but can't find it.
@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net is the Pol Pot / Elon Musk emote just a fever dream of ours or is it a real thing?
you know what czechia really needs? the habsburgs back. i wanna give full control of everything over to this guy and his 26 year old race car driving son
honestly find it hilarious that theyre deeply steeped into race car driving at this point and his daughter married some random race car driver. monarchists are rolling in their graves
I love post-leftists because you never know what you're going to get at the end of all the fancy words. Will it be totally ordinary leftist politics? Will it just be liberalism? Will they have somehow ended up with some really reactionary takes? Who knows
I unironically still like Deleuze while being an ML. Was very useful to read as I developed, honestly, though I've mostly veered away from any of the metaphysics for anything other than understanding the moments/poles of dialectical movements better. It got me here, so I honored it with my username.
I've read the first half of anti-Oedipus 3 or 4 times and I'm still not sure I know what "body without organs" is supposed to mean.
Oh yeah, I read books explaining the books before I got the books. And still not sure I got the books. But the path to understanding resulted in me losing my liberal organs and becoming an ML commie
I guess it just really made me question everything before I read about Marx's questioning of everything
I think the only reasonable reaction to the wave of instability rocking West Africa and threatening our national interests is the establishment of some sort of South Atlantic Treaty Organisation (although we'll obviously allow the US, Canada, and anyone in the EU to join even if they're not technically on the South Atlantic)
I followed the monarchism subreddit for a while, I can cover that one. Basically you just pretend that revolution is the proper response to a bad monarch, but then you cry over the Romanovs. Also jerk off to the worst moustaches of all time.
you just pretend that revolution is the proper response to a bad monarch, but then you cry over the Romanovs.
Omg, guy who thinks the russian revolution was bad but only because they didn't make Lenin a king
I'm marxist-leninist-constitutionalist with originalist tendencies, all the amendments are revisionism