edit: muting this thread, goodbye.
Me; new here thinking “hexbear” is the furry server… Oh…
Well I was half right
LPT - you don’t have to give any fucks about who or what “hexbear.net” is, instead you can have a life.
Hello!
You know that you can block instances yourself? Like you don’t have to be forced to see their stuff. I think some of y’all enjoy whinging about shit for the sake of it.
welcome back, glorious pigposters
However will lemmy deal with dissenting or socialist comments? Oh bless my pure centrist heart!
Welcome back!
Lol at the 4 losers who downvoted every comment somebody from hexbear made. Just block the instance if you’re this mad.
They finally figured out how computer works
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Finally! This place just isn’t the same without pics of pigs shitting on their own balls.
This person gets it
I sure do! Goes to show reading Marxist theory is overrated…
Reading theory is fine. You won’t become a leninist
Nooooo please read theory… 🫠
I even have an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list if you want somewhere to start…
i won’t pretend it’s perfectly done but you know hexbear is a left unity instance that explicitly welcomes anarchists, yeah?
While I have seen one or two anarchists post messages there, if I see a hexbear account, I do pretty much assume they are Leninist-Marxist, or at least very comfortable among LM’s. I don’t spend much time there, though, so perhaps that’s an unfair prejudice.
or at least very comfortable among [MLs]
well yes, such is the nature of co-existing in a left unity space. anyway our anarchists are definitely a minority but they’re about. i can think of at least one prominent mod who is a proud anarchist and i know there are others as well (admittedly this is not the sort of thing i would ordinarily keep track of tbh)
Why are you swapping Lenin and Marx? Nobody calls themselves an LM, I’ve never seen anyone write it that way.
I used to, actually! If more people in general read Anarchist theory, the world would probably be a much better place. That being said, I do prefer Marxism. Thanks for sharing!
Do you have pointers to help me understand what makes you prefer Marxism? I know there’s been a bunch of discourse on it already, and this probably isn’t the spot where we resolve it, but I’m relatively new to leftism and am interested in learning more.
Short(ish) version I have for preferring anarchism to Marxism:
My ultimate end goal is that everyone ascend Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and self actualize.
Self actualization requires freedom, agency, and control over things you care about. Pursuing self actualization is hard, though, and human brains want to be lazy.
I’m anti-capitalist, but a positive of (small-scale) capitalism is that it incentivizes individuals to think, “What should exist, but doesn’t? What can I do that others would like?” and then actually go do it. Our aim should be to encourage those types of actions, but with an incentive structure that doesn’t result in… this.
My concern is that a centralized state will result in folks voluntarily giving up their agency over stuff administered by the state, since it’s easier than feeling ownership of it. Over time, I worry this would would atrophy individuals’ agency and result in a kind of bystander effect, where folks look for the state to do things for them.
Thanks for asking! I’m going to oversimplify, so please, feel free to ask for elaboration!
For starters, I generally agree that values like freedom and agency are important. I personally believe that this isn’t a choice we can make, though, but is a product of our material conditions and resources. The best path to happiness is to improve production and to do so along a cooperative and democratic plan.
The reason I am a Marxist (specifically ML) is because Marx simply makes the most compelling arguments for how to get there, and why, as well as the existence of real Marxist aligned societies we can see in action. His observations like markets naturally centralizing and developing the tools for planning makes sense, we just need to nationalize large firms and key industries, and gradually fold the small firms in as they grow into large firms.
What you describe as a problem may happen, but not likely at a systemic level in a manner that cannot be addressed.
I tried to get AI to generate it for me but it’s just not the same.
It’s about time they showed up, during trans day of visibility no less 😌
nature is healing
There is a spectre is haunting Lemmy — the spectre of hexbear . All the powers of new lemmy have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre
