Question of my own: How could anarchism possibly address the imminent crisis of catastrophic climate change?
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Jason Gomez
Austin Richardson
Thanks for your response. On question #2 I was referring to the lack of a centralized system so how would vaccines and pharmaceuticals be distributed on a mass scale?
Christian Evans
You mean lifestylists?
By abolishing the present state of things and creating an economy where production is based on need. I know that's a vague answer but you have a vague question.
Why would a centralized system be necessary for that? They would be distributed the same way any other good would be, i.e. there would be people who produce the goods and other people who would see where they'd need to go. Systems that measure supply and demand don't have to be under one central, all-powerful entity.
Hunter Perez
In regards to the gilets jaunes, if I understand the situation correctly, their assemblies could form a basis for an anarchist revolution, if influenced in the right way. Essentially it's about building these power structures, be it unions, affinity groups or whatever, and making sure they're democratic and follow anarchist principles.
You either build them up or turn already existing ones into anarchist structures. Praxis is really about adapting your ideas to the situation at hand, and compromise is alright as long as it doesn't thread on basic principles.
Lifestyleists and people not organizing in such ways aren't that useful, their only contribution could be shilling. And if they do shilling wrong you end up looking like idiots who just smash stuff. But that's not organizing, so it's dumb.
Personally I'm a syndicalist. Where I'm at there's like 0 revolutionary potential, so over the net I'm shilling for any kind of anti-capitalism. The only thing to do here is build unions and wait for shit to go down.
Gavin Brown
I consider myself a Libertarian-Marxist, But I don't know how without a militant organized proletarian state I would protect myself against capitalist states that want to invade.
Colton Russell
This blows my mind because Stalin literally said capitalism can co-exist with socialism, and the USSR had wage labor under Stalin and Mao. Yet, the author of this piece praises Stalin….
marxists.org
Asher Morris
Could also add that the concept of peaceful coexistence was itself associated with Stalin before it was associated with Khrushchev. There's even a 1951 collection of Stalin's speeches on the theme: palmm.digital.flvc.org
There is a 1955 (i.e. before the 20th CPSU Congress) book titled "Peaceful Coexistence" whose third chapter gives numerous examples of the concept's application under Lenin and Stalin: archive.org
To quote page 50:
Khrushchev's main "innovation" on this subject was to argue that wars between capitalist states were no longer inevitable due to the menace of nuclear war (whereas Stalin held that wars between capitalists were inevitable, though like Khrushchev he specifically stated that wars between capitalist and socialist states weren't inevitable.)
Adrian Nguyen
Health care - anarchism.pageabode.com