[yellow, angry]
I don’t like communism because every time we tried it, power corrupted people
[yellow, smiling and shrugging]
This is why I prefer capitalism, in which power corrupts people
[yellow, t-posing and drooling]
I am very smart and understand ideologies very well than you for coming to my TED talk
That’s why democracy is less worse than the other systems, you get to kick the bad guy out before he entrenches himself.
I’d love some mix of anarchy, maybe communism but based on democracy. Lol I guess.
Anarchism+Communism is basically extreme democracy on steroids, since power is then concentrated at the bottom at a community level instead of at the top, and local decisions can be decided via consensus, and then delegated out to a wider federated society :D
What we, societally, call “democracy” is often a small amount of influence or even manufactured consent within an otherwise fascist hierarchical structure. True democracy is an entire process encompassing ways of being and living. Anarchism is democratic, but not necessarily all democracy is anarchic. For example, the Haudenosaunee famously participated in an anti-authoritarian power structure that does not qualify as anarchy, however, I would definitely qualify it as one of the most democratic structures ever established on the North American continent.
In fact, I’d even argue that the entire point of “lefist unity” should be that political movements are, and must be, hyper local. It’s the #1 thing I think Zapatismo gets right about political theory. Urban centers tend to find ML works and processes the most useful for achieving their liberation whereas rural and pre-industrial economies such as mining communities tend to find the most value in Anarchist, Trotskyist, and Council-Communist lines of thought. It’s just that “leftist unity” has a tendency to not work out that way