LehmanB wrote:NeoLieberalists could never rule the society.
Who do you think is ruling society at this very moment?
It seems to me like we are living in Neoliberalism at this exact moment.
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LehmanB wrote:NeoLieberalists could never rule the society.
LehmanB wrote:NeoLieberalists could never rule the society. And you see there are rarely polititians from them.
Rei Murasame wrote:Who do you think is ruling society at this very moment?
It seems to me like we are living in Neoliberalism at this exact moment.
SomeRandom wrote:Neoliberalism. The horrors of far-right nationalism are there for all to see, but neoliberalism's both more prominent and insidious.
Edinburgh University Anarchist Society wrote:Equality
We wish to encourage the abandonment of unhealthy consumerist and capitalist ideals. We see each human being to be worth the same, and reject capitalism on the grounds that we do not see material wealth, and the ability to gain material wealth, as valid measures of a human being's value. Additionally, we see capitalism as a catalyst for oppression and violence. As such we reject capitalism. Furthermore, we believe that as humans are fundamentally equal, no justification exists for the authority of State, other than to preserve an unequal status quo. We reject the State on these grounds. We will reflect our view of equality in our meetings by making clear that the office-bearer positions mandated by the University do not give authority above that mandated by the compulsory clauses for an Edinburgh University society, and by the fact that all views will be taken into account with equal consideration.
Liberty
We differ from other left-wing societies in our acknowledgement of the State as the unjust use of force by one set of people upon another. We do not acknowledge the right of any governing body, elected or otherwise, to sacrifice the liberty of individuals for what they see as the greater good. As such we are not and do not wish to be affiliated with any political party. We believe in the freedom of every human being to act as they will, providing that they do not infringe the liberty of others. We believe that this liberty is best preserved by a system of decentralised small-scale council-style governance. We will reflect this in the running of our society, reaching our decisions by consensus.
Respect
We acknowledge that the ideals of equality and liberty in a free anarchist society are not feasible without the idea of respect, both for other human beings in our community and for the world in which we live. We believe that the ideals can be achieved by treating other people with the same respect we would wish for ourselves. We are a non-violent society, and believe that constructive social change in the direction of a free, equal and peaceful society cannot be achieved by harmful or violent means. We believe that the means are as important as the ends.
We are willing to consider any and all points of view at our meetings, and welcome anyone interested in the ideas we hold, whether or not they immediately identify as anarchists themselves. We acknowledge the bad publicity that anarchism has suffered in the public mindset, with the word being connected with destruction and violence, and wish to promote the truth of anarchism as a constructive and human-centred societal plan of action.
Trotsky wrote:The class basis of this false and pompous sermon is the intellectual petty bourgeoisie. The political basis – their impotence and confusion in the face of approaching reaction. Psychological basis – their effort at overcoming the feeling of their own inferiority through masquerading in the beard of a prophet.
A moralizing Philistine’s favorite method is the lumping of reaction’s conduct with that of revolution. He achieves success in this device through recourse to formal analogies. To him czarism and Bolshevism are twins. Twins are likewise discovered in fascism and communism. An inventory is compiled of the common features in Catholicism – or more specifically, Jesuitism – and Bolshevism. Hitler and Mussolini, utilizing from their side exactly the same method, disclose that liberalism, democracy, and Bolshevism represent merely different manifestations of one and the same evil. The conception that Stalinism and Trotskyism are “essentially” one and the same now enjoys the joint approval of liberals, democrats, devout Catholics, idealists, pragmatists, and anarchists. If the Stalinists are unable to adhere to this “People’s Front”, then it is only because they are accidentally occupied with the extermination of Trotskyists.
The fundamental feature of these approchements and similitudes lies in their completely ignoring the material foundation of the various currents, that is, their class nature and by that token their objective historical role. Instead they evaluate and classify different currents according to some external and secondary manifestation, most often according to their relation to one or another abstract principle which for the given classifier has a special professional value. Thus to the Roman pope Freemasons and Darwinists, Marxists and anarchists are twins because all of them sacrilegiously deny the immaculate conception. To Hitler, liberalism and Marxism are twins because they ignore “blood and honor”. To a democrat, fascism and Bolshevism are twins because they do not bow before universal suffrage. And so forth.
Undoubtedly the currents grouped above have certain common features. But the gist of the matter lies in the fact that the evolution of mankind exhausts itself neither by universal suffrage, not by “blood and honor,” nor by the dogma of the immaculate con ception. The historical process signifies primarily the class struggle; moreover, different classes in the name of different aims may in certain instances utilize similar means. Essentially it cannot be otherwise.
They, Anarchists, will make socialism as their necessary organizer and will claim this will not come instead of lieberties. I won't understand them, they won't understand me, yet we both want to reach the same goal- lieberalism with a pinch of order.
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