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Cake day: September 30th, 2023

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  • I’m not an expert on the application of political philosophy for societal change. I’d say that is something you should look into from anarchist literature as many scholars have done deep into the application of left wing ideology without authoritarianism.

    Though I’m also a bit confused on what you mean by “authoritarianism”. From your examples the first is an interaction between two people about public health and the other is someone not following a rule about respecting protected characteristics and being punished by it. I don’t think those would be classified as “authoritarian” unless the definition of authoritarian is “receiving backlash for my actions which can harm others”



  • Well yeah you aren’t exactly wrong, but if we are talking about the very basic ideas of “progressive” and “conservative”, Tankies are basically authoritarians with the vineer of being left wing. They in the end go against basically everything they think they stand for, but those are basically the people who are pointing to when people go “well the communist are just as bad!”

    It’s honestly rather stupid




  • Yeah I feel that, I also think there are some books where the friction is there enough that audiobooks are perfectly fine as a substitute. I think for textbooks maybe it’s more than I need a direct and tangible reason to use the knowledge but then it won’t feel I’m reading to learn but reading to do something else. It ain’t easy 😂