<Abolish The Family.
<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
317 posts and 59 image replies omitted.>>2388191>can easily be removed.And who will be doing this removing? Maybe Mr Bronstein sitting in the Café Central?
I won't even get into what you believe is natural or "forever existing". You have to be "idealist" or metaphysically inclined to look at the issue (or any issue) like that in the first place.
>>2388767read heraclitus or lao tzu
λόγος is the eternal order in chaos, like 道
>>2388854I mean, me, I am an old man. So I may be susceptible to the occasional crude joke.
We love our trans lads and ladies around the real communist table tho.
It's a different timeline to the point it is a disparate concept in reality tho. Saying if no one's cis "normal", there is no more trans as a concept is quite distinct from saying "trans people don't exist right now", which you know, no one with any clue or connection to reality holds this view.
Abolishing the concept of gender itself is as much an aggression as communism is "prole erasure". I think it shows people can talk about very different things while appearing to be on the same page at least to some extent.
>>2389513Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism by Mikhail Bakunin
<Recognition of the absolute right of each nation, great or small, of each people, weak or strong, of each province, of each commune, to complete autonomy, provided its internal constitution is not a threat or a danger to the autonomy and liberty of neighboring countries.<The League will recognize nationality as a natural fact which has an incontestable right to a free existence and development<revolution, i.e., the emancipation of nations and men. >>2388825Ancient philosophers should not inform your ideology.
>>2388839I think the perfect living setup can be inspired by Tulou and big blocks of flats. Every individual gets their own bedroom, large enough for a single bed, desk and booskhelf (or whatever the building allows, if this is far in the future they can be as big as anyone wants) because a private, personal space is important for mental health and wellbeing. Sharing a bedroom sucks and we don't need to do that anymore, concrete is cheap after all. 5-10 rooms will make up a unit or apartment, who will share a kitchen, dining room and toilets. Generally you can hang out with everyone here to watch TV, cook meals for each other (or on your own if you don't want to), socialize on a day to day basis etc.. Then there will be floors or sections, or just the whole building if it is a smaller one. Each floor will allow everyone in it, maybe a hundred people, to go between units without being stopped so they can socialize with everyone. They will share recreation area and will do cultural festivals together in a central area. All the units will lead out into the central space. This space can also have lots of like community arts and crafts, pop up factories etc.. And then there is the whole building.
>>2373266I mean really the state is an artifact of trade, money is just arbitrage par excellence. The state arises from trade because the trade in goods and services leads to the trade in workers and any system of slavery needs violent enforcement which is found under capitalism in the unrelenting violence of the state against the reserve pool of labor. The function of the state is not to oppress the workers, the function of the state is to oppress the reserve pool of labor. The capitalist pays the managerial strata to buy and sell labor, the capitalists and the managerial strata wash their hands of the violence themselves. The state and money are only a means to buy and sell workers, it is the buying and selling of workers which is the problem.
It follows to abolish money that the slaves must take up the slave trade themselves. LinkedIn, HR, all these services for selling the body must be seized by the working class and democratized. Only then can we abolish the wage and the state.
>>2389549the fact that the nation is mentioned here does not mean you have to reify the nation as a concept.
the entitlement of every province to complete autonomy already implies within itself the abolition of nations, as such. granted complete autonomy there are two possibilities: regions will converge in such a way as to blur national boundaries, or regions will diverge in such a way as to blur national boundaries. even today, i wouldn't consider it contentious to say that (say) the scots at the scottish border and the english at the english border have many more things in common with one another than with their supposed co-nationals in the far north and far south respectively.
or, indeed, within scotland and england you could point to orkney+shetland or cornwall: they are not so nationally distinct as to have major independence movements, but they have high regional conciousness and a distinct ethnic/cultural background. to cut them off from scotland and england as different nations would be inaccurate, but it would equally be inaccurate to imagine them as just scottish or english. they're one of those awkward cases that shows the nation is really a weird little abstraction that doesn't necessarily stand up to close scrutiny - a nation is what a nation is, but at a certain point where every 50 square km is its own "nation", the nation has functionally been abolished.
Jews will never be free until Judaism is abolished, as Karl Marx demonstrates. Judaism must be abolished because judaism = zionism = capitalism. Humanity will never be free until judaism is abolished.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it. The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism – huckstering and its preconditions – the Jew will have become impossible, because his consciousness no longer has an object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, and because the conflict between man’s individual-sensuous existence and his species-existence has been abolished. The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.
>>2390683I mean no one is suggesting that the nation is a very concrete thing, to do that would be to fall into bourgeois nationalism, which Bakunin advises against as in actuality nationalism only serves to destroy actually existing organic nations in the quest for a singular reified nation to be utilized by the state.
>regions will converge in such a way as to blur national boundaries, or regions will diverge in such a way as to blur national boundaries.National boundaries for us exist as they are, not as they somehow ought to be, as for the bourgeois nationalists. In both of these cases nations, distinct communities of people with distinct cultures, continue to exist, in some form or another, and that is what we mean by "free existence and development"
>>2391141If you westoid you die
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