The_the@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat do you think of anarchism?message-squaremessage-square205fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down111
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you think of anarchism?The_the@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square205fedilink
minus-squareTedesche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoThis was the best you could come up with? A regime that lasted one full year? I rest my case.
minus-squareCommunistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoYour case is terrible, because that’s not how science is done. In science, we control for variables, anarchist societies can’t control for the variable of very powerful people destroying them. Furthermore, their destruction was ENTIRELY external, their internal politics flourished such that george orwell wrote an entire book praising it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia Now, if you can demonstrate that the variables were controlled for in any of the anarchist societies that existed, and that they failed purely by their own merit, you’d have a point!
This was the best you could come up with? A regime that lasted one full year?
I rest my case.
Your case is terrible, because that’s not how science is done.
In science, we control for variables, anarchist societies can’t control for the variable of very powerful people destroying them.
Furthermore, their destruction was ENTIRELY external, their internal politics flourished such that george orwell wrote an entire book praising it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia
Now, if you can demonstrate that the variables were controlled for in any of the anarchist societies that existed, and that they failed purely by their own merit, you’d have a point!