1. Mod of [email protected] posts a great Greta Thunberg quote, but then tries to use it to justify not voting in the upcoming US election
  2. Multiple people point out that’s very clearly not what she meant
  3. Removed by mod Removed by mod Removed by mod Removed by mod

Using your mod powers to decide who is allowed and not allowed to speak is not very anarchist of you, @[email protected]

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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    2 months ago

    The point of anarchy is that if you and a group of other people disagree with how someone is handling things, you can exclude them from your group.

    I must have missed that part being key, when I was reading about Kropotkin and the mutualists. I thought it was some other things were mainly “the point.”

    • Binette@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It is key. Anarchist theory is supposed to prove that hierarchy is not necessary. Proving that a group of people can manage themselves without one is the point.

      I also added in the last sentence in order to include this. Multual aid is a leftist theory. Maybe the misunderstanding stems from this, as I didn’t intend it to mean “that’s the only point of anarchy”, so my bad. I still think it is important though.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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        2 months ago

        It is key. Anarchist theory is supposed to prove that hierarchy is not necessary. Proving that a group of people can manage themselves without one is the point.

        It’s so key that Kropotkin said you need to nominate a leader for each discussion, so that the leader can kick people out if they’re supporting the wrong ideologies. It’s one of the key tenets, and thank you for reinforcing it.

        Also:

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)

        • Binette@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          I’m not really talking about what Kropotkin said. I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic here.

          Also literally the first line of your Wikipedia article:

          Mutualism is an anarchist school of thought and anti-capitalist market socialist economic theory

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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            2 months ago

            I’m being extremely sarcastic.

            I’m saying that proving that hierarchy is not necessary, and a group of people can manage themselves without one, by nominating one person to have ultimate authority over what actions can and can’t be taken within your anarchism group, so that person can make sure it stays anarchist, is a very silly thing to do.

            • Binette@lemmy.ml
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              2 months ago

              But what I’m trying to point out is that this one person does not have authority over anyone due to the nature of the fediverse. If they did, your post right here would be gone.

              If the users that are in the community of the moderator didn’t like how they managed things, they could make their own community. And if they didn’t like that the instance let the community exist for whatever reason, they can change for a better instance. Admittedly it’s hard to do so, but it’s a pretty good model.

              They can’t stop users from making their own solar punk meme community.