Thread by @mariliacout

1/ Surprising unsurprising questions:

“Does anarcho-capitalism exist? Can anarchism be right wing?” No, there isn’t and it cannot. By definition, anarchism is based on a program of social class elimination through the destruction of the dominant class.

2/ The absence of a State in a libertarian (the original libertarian concept, not Ayn Rand) society doesn’t have any relation with the dwarf State AND – please pay attention – promoted by neoliberals and modern fascists, also known as ur-fascists.

3/ There is nothing “neo” in them: just plain old fascism. Insisting in some “right wing anarchism” or “left wing fascism” is one of the few things I consider as a final test for the existence of life after death.

4/ Bakunin, Proudhon, maybe the whole First International, Marx, too, because it’s hard to sleep the sleep of the dead with all this noise, Engels comes in solidarity to his buddy and goes to the other block to wake up Hegel...

5/ ... they would all come back from where afterlife hypothetically exists because plagiarism and misquotes of dead people’s work is really rude.

6/ “Are Scandinavian countries socialist?” Not even a little bit. These and other countries have mixed economies (like all of them now, in different proportion of each component).

7/ That means that certain services and products are done by State-owned companies or government institutions and others (the majority) by the private sector.

8/ What confuses these folks who completely ignore the concept of socialism is something called REDISTRIBUTIVE ECONOMY.

9/ That’s an economy that REDISTRIBUTES WEALTH by a tax system that taxes proportionately more those with higher income, where there is a functioning support network that we call Welfare State and where inequality is far smaller than in the US.

10/ But then again, big deal: being better than American inequality is not a high standard.
More surprising unsurprising questions later.

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