I do not for a second trust the state to wither away when a vanguard party is in power. I’d rather skip that phase entirely before it can corrupt politicians.

Sure, gradual withering would be nice, and ideal; but is there any socialist state that ever actually turned communist? in that there’s no significant bureaucracy, no surveillance, where there’s no democratic centralism*, and where workplace democracy is everywhere?

* western parties also do this, called party whips.

The priority for me is any authoritarianism. Authoritarianism by itself is extremist; wanting a world liberated of that is not.

Surveillance capitalism, religious fundamentalism, it’s all the same to me: they seek to control people and the flow of good life standards, away from the masses, towards their leaders.

Surveillance capitalism does so by selling your private data to the highest bidder, and these will use it to spy on you, bribing, harassing, and corrupting lawmakers into creating a surveillance state - a perfect recipe for authoritarianism to pop its head up. They direct attention away from the oligarchs so that we do not combat them.

Religious fundamentalism sells your personhood to the strongest converters, to those that strip you of autonomy; such groups thus also spy on you. They always look for the downtrodden, weakest and most vulnerable, to direct their hatred for their current situation away from the true source – oligarchs.

So for me, I’d say there is no difference and this question is meaningless: it’s asking for the difference between a golden apple/window and a golden cross. At the end of day, both cannot be eaten, but all buy it up blindly.

Indeed. The entire wage system should be replaced by a system centered around human needs, such as in a gift economy.

Which goes to show it didn’t go as far as it could’ve.

They might indeed call it unrealistic to actually go on and prosecute all (and reasonably so given that recovery was key), but at least most of the top and key individuals should’ve gotten further consequences. Werner von Braun got off light.

There’s much the USSR did terribly, but at least it was thorough with its treatment of Nazis after the war. That said, at the end of day, anarchocommunism >>>> state & surveillance capitalism. Stalin still allied with Hitler.

There being no gender norms would actually be even more liberating. It means we’re not pressured into only wearing femme clothing (when going the estrogen route) or masculine ones (when doing testosterone).

It’d open up a ton of possibilities for cis and queer people alike; wearing skirts on warm days for men also, or wearing pretty nail polish, or short hair for women…

That’s my stance as well, although I’d start puberty blockers a little before puberty starts. So around 6/8 yo, and HRT around 12/14. And also without parental consent needed, a lot of trans youth have strict parents which damages their prospects on that.

Obv, the blockers and hrt should occur with informed consent regardless, but yeah.

Yup. Before I came out, as a kid we often had shared showers and drying rooms. Pretty chill actually, we learnt to interact and talk with each other that way, instead of being segregated and correspondingly implicitly seeing the other side as something forbidden, mythical – when they’re just… people, really.

I think some also went there, or to Australia and New Zealand. Maybe other ones too. But I’m less certain of all those.

Trumpites are the real RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).

Mainly France. Macron invited a lot of scientists. Germany and other EU countries as well.

Fun fact: during the Nuremberg trials it was determined that the “just following orders” excuse was in fact, not valid; and that someone always ought to disobey their superiors when that goes against liberty.

If they radicalised once they can deradicalise again. Not that everyone will be helped with it, but a lot could benefit.

And after that, Kropotkin

It is in fact, a matter of the government.

Steve Reed can do something about it.

Sharing it with everyone is, though. It helps! Chances are a European will hear about it.

Ew, spyware. This def violates GDPR

So, how about that… are they not similar now?

A true People’s Republic would have less surveillance noncence than this.

The UK is a literal 1984 in the works.

There are too many to list, but one that comes to mind:

• Pyotr Kropotkin. I’ve read his Conquest of Bread and although sometimes harder to read, it’s been highly enlightening for how an anarchocommunist society could self-organise.