What is hexbear?
I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of 'hitlerites'
I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?
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I don't think it has grown to include that (or I don't think it should have grown, if it actually has and I didn't notice).
Any revolution will require violent means. That doesn't inherently make it bad, just sad. It depends who is the target of the violence.
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There aren't many Americans who condemn the American revolution for it's violence against the British, for example.
You can have non violent revolutions.
Revolution varies in the quantity of violence required, but requires at minimum threat of violence. You can't have a revolution by asking politiely and tying your hands behind your back.
Of course not, you do it sneakily in the shadows gradually until it's too late.
You see the beauty of my proposal is It needn’t wait on general revolution. I bid you to a one-man revolution— The only revolution that is coming.
That's a coup, not a revolution, and as such has no real historical examples of representing the interests of the Working Class. The point of revolution is that it is a mass movement of an organized working class, not some random hero commanding the masses into a better existence.
A coup is sudden, I am an agorist. No random heros but bottom-up & decentralised / voluntary.
So you want a bottom-up, loosely organized revolution but don't think it requires any threat of violence to pull off? Has that ever happened anywhere and lasted more than a year or two? Even Anarchists, who espouse decentralization, recognize the necessity of violence in revolution.
Not yet. We haven't all been connected for very long.
Say we fast forward. How do you pull off a non-violent revolution?
Say we fast forward. How do you pull off a non-violent revolution?
build the new world in the shell of the old
By fostering parallel institutions such as community run markets, local production systems, and peer to peer financial services, people can begin meeting daily needs outside the state's control. Engaging in counter economics, including black and grey market, mutual aid networks, decentralized governance tools, and local methods of conflict resolution. Things like local exchange trading systems, local currencies, and more exotic monetary/post-monetary ideas could fundamentally shift how we exchange and interact with each other. Robust tools to aid in resistance, communication networks, seamless ways to effectively organise and resist that can't be stopped, mutual aid networks,etc. As modern technology continues to empowers communities to self organize and fund projects that was previously impossible, they gain resilience and independence from official channels. If enough people see that decentralised solutions genuinely improve their lives, they will choose to opt out of the state's apparatus and voluntarily support these alternative systems. Over time the state loses both moral and practical support, culminating in a peaceful transition rather than a violent upheaval.
I'm skeptical of that claim, but it's not really important.
To say that any communist that supports violence as a means is a tankie is to say all communists are tankies.
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But given that violence alone doesn't make a revolution bad, and that tankie is a perjorative, then that definition isn't fair or even really meaningful.