I need to get this out of my system.
Marx was right. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” But he didnt incorporate the interaction between individuals and society. Selfish individuals will dedicate their efforts into finding a way to play the system to their advantage at the expense of everyone else. It is as certain as death. Feudalism, capitalism, slavery, fascism, communism with a vanguard party, etc is all the same with different names. There are the people that exploit and the exploited.
Actual revolution is not political. It is universally cultural and has no boundaries or nationality. Until we as a species integrate the moral value that hoarding wealth and power is unjust like murder, we will continue to cycle through social political systems and charismatic pseudo-revolutionary leaders, repeating the same process with different names. True revolution has no leader because true revolution is incompatible with leaders. Once we establish that as an absolute must, then no matter the rationalization given by anyone (private property to control obscene amounts of wealth and means of production, freedom of speech to promote hate, free market to allow corruption, etc.), no one would tolerate it.
At the individual level, we need to understand that the well-documented psychopathic-narcissistic pattern of abuse is the issue. Notice it and take steps to prevent that from taking control. No divide and conquer. No blaming or scapegoating. No populist love-bombing and future faking. No victimizing. No shame. No revenge. No flying monkeys doing the bidding of the unwell abuser. No idealization of anyone. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. No one is perfect. There aren’t winners and losers. There is no hierarchy. These are all made up to exploit, be it an abused partner or social class. Only equality, reciprocity, mutuality, understanding, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, freedom, and independence of thought. In one word love.
Man, I’m on some BS today.
Disclaimer: This is solely my opinion. It’s been bouncing around in my head for a while and needed to come out. I really hope this doesn’t turn into a [poop]storm. Please be kind with me and each other.
Based.
Thank you ❤️
Your freedom of speech argument falls flat: by selecting a strawnman you’re ignoring that you’re exercising that same right in this very diatribe.
Also, calling something “hate speech” just buys into the idea that government should have the authority to silence whomever it chooses to silence.
I am so confused, so I feel that my statement was misunderstood. Let me try to clarify.
The statement was referring to people that promote hate by using freedom of speech as the causal reason. Yeah, freedom of speech means someone can say anything without government intervention, but why choose to promote hate with that? Freedom of speech doesn’t logically mean someone should spew hate. Additionally, I am clearly exercising my right to freedom of speech with this post. I didn’t say I wasn’t.
In regards to the second point, I absolutely made a case against authority. The whole point was for a change in values across humanity, not a list of rights, controls, or whatever else. Equality, acceptance, freedom, and independence of thought…none of that argues for government control. It argues the opposite.
