Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to [email protected]
Rules
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If you post images with text, endeavour to provide the alt-text
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If the image is a crosspost from an OP, Provide the source.
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
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Absolutely no redfash jokes. This includes anything that props up the capitalist ruling classes pretending to be communists.
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No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
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No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
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Human greed is a big problem. I vividly remember, in socialism and communism, lots of people redirected produce to each other, leading to bribes and scarcity, which encouraged more and more people to do the same. Harsh punishments had little effect. Humans are just trash.
humans are the most co-operative and empathetic species on the face of the earth. What ruined those systems were hierarchies of power.
Humans have the capacity to be that, but all you have to do is look at the entirety of human history to know that we're not really like that. It's a nice lie that we tell ourselves.
Hierarchies of power are an integral part of human nature and always have been. Any society that centers around empathy and cooperation will eventually be corrupted by those who only seek personal gain, and the masses will follow them.
One thing people forget is that right now is one of the most peaceful times in human history, and it's still a shit show of war and misery with large sections of the population actively working on making things worse
The duality of man is our species's Great Filter.
Extrapolating out "human nature" from past human behavior is a form of surface level inductive reasoning that does not hold up to scrutiny. Inductive reasoning is flawed, "humans are naturally hierarchical" isn't an argument. It's possible to use material analysis to determine the source of hierarchy and as humans we have the ability to change our material conditions. Also ignoring anarchist projects that succeeded in horizontalism, maybe not in militarism though.