do you think it’d be funny to plunge a know-nothing lib into the deep end of the olde leftist infighting, by saying “I’m not a stalinist, stalinists are Hoxhaists, I’m a Marxist-Leninist! That’s like calling a Marxist-Leninist who adheres to Mao Zedong thought a Maoist. You’re practically spitting in their face because you’re calling them a gonzolite baby bath-water enjoyer or a pot-head!”

“whats a pot-head?”

“someone that hates cities and glasses”

“like a hipster?”

“sure lets go with that.”

thats the point

nothing wrong with that. only thing wrong is that they all focus on the wrong warfront.

oh boy another head of a wanna-be samurai to collect. please, sir, present your neck.

Oh you’ll have a well-rounded profile of comics to read between the two, then. The former’s a more light-hearted fantasy-comedy, while the other is a more serious action-adventure(?) (I haven’t read absolute batman. Nor any u,s comics for decades). If nothing else, it’ll be interesting to bounce between the two when you find time to chill.

I’d recommend “greatest estate developer” because it was recently completed. Most excellent story, genuinely one of my favorites.

My escapism promotes philistinism, in the Marxist sense, so it can’t be as bad as me just wallowing in the mud and eating slop out of it, proverbially, with my enjoyment of Korean webcomics

Thats like saying sun shines, snow falls, and birds fly lol

Lmao going full hog wild and just stomping the pedal is definitely the funnest solution to the issue no doubt. It’s like you almost get to go mudding but within the comfort of your friend’s neighborhood. Only downside is that if it freezes during winter wherever this is at, those ridges and ruts are gonna be absolute hell on your vehicle.

There really is a knowledge gap on the level of human suffering that occurred prior to the beautiful medical advancements of 20th century.

I can’t think of anything either. Every scattered bit of info on actually-existing anarchist projects that I’ve read about have been mentions of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union by anarchists. Insofar as the closest I’ve heard of in the PRC has been the maoist communes.

Ah I hate those situations. Absolute perfect demonstration of hyperindividualism on display.

It makes me wonder if there is an anarchism of the 21st century. Something that actually logically works in theory and could be materially implemented. So at least if I come across another dork that wants anarchism-in-form-primitivism-in-action ism, I could at least point them in a direction for them to learn the most realistically up-to-date materials of their own worldview.

Then again that’s just too far into the weeds even for me, and I’ll just stick with saying “who’s gonna build and maintain the roads”

Ah for the case of Val going back in time to try and overthrow the first hero of humanity, assuming somehow that happened, - assuming best cases happened through out their life - anything they accomplished within their lifetime would be quickly swept away after their death and whatever remnants that remained would too be swept into the dustbin of history as the Akkadians begin their conquest of the region.

I’m sorry but val’s logic for an anarchist society just doesn’t function. No matter what starting point such society begins with - i.e a post-u.s state downfall, a world wide victory, getting in a time machine and telling the Akkadians in Uruk to overthrow Gilgamesh and to immediately construct an anarchist society in the cradle of humanity - that society will simply conduct a great leap backwards.

Logistics networks? You’d go back to struggling to even have a post office.

Infrastructure? Good luck trying to maintain anything more advanced than a dirt road.

Electricity, water, plumbing, waste management? Most likely can’t maintain anything larger than a hamlet.

Val, in concrete terms, isn’t arguing for anarchism, they’re arguing for primitivism.

YDI/YDM

Imperial Russian peasants literally ran around burning and massacring villages of minorities, lynching intellectuals, and literally worshiped the Tsar as Jesus’ literal second-in-command on earth. If Lenin and the bolsheviks could turn a backwards backwater barbaric empire into a industrialized powerhouse standing equal to the western capitalists states in a generation, then thinking America is somehow unique and distinct from the Tsarist Empire and all other empires that have and do exist, then I can say nothing else than you are committing the same error of American Exceptionalism that Stalin denounced in 1929.

oh are they purging the boyscouts and girlscouts from the bureau? the proverbially comatose clowns that are the most likely to fully and unironically believe everything positive they’ve been told about the america dream? incredibly funny. not so much so with the slavering beasts of Lamashtu they are going to be replaced with, but that was a question of when and not if.

a party structure with an enforceable line? sounds undemocratic and unsocialist. might as well stay pinned to the donkeys ass then.

Lol I caught Rona round 3. Pretty sure I lost my sense of taste for sweet and spicy things. Incredibly strange, I can feel the physical reaction my body has to spicy things but I can’t taste it, and for sweet I can aromatically smell it’s sweetness but I can’t taste shit. Very strange hand I’ve been dealt this round. Wondering if this’ll be permanent or not. Not to much of a biggie.