Found on Facebook via @KyokiKafuka

In all honesty, democracy--as an ideal--is inherently flawed; when you give absolutely everyone a voice, you end up with tyranny of the majority.

And let's be real: America never had a democracy to begin with.

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@ayachan @KyokiKafuka democracy is impossible, or at the very least too mich effort. less government would solve a lot of these "everyone has a voice" problems. voices matter on a smaller scale. smaller voices are also less likely to be echoes, imo.

in all honesty, i have no idea what mary stone is even saying apart from that she hates Republicans. i'm not asking for a solution, but what exactly is the problem?

@cardboard @KyokiKafuka As a communist, I'm generally opposed to people who call out for "less government;" I feel that people are most effective when they work together as organised groups. I think I would not want to see things decentralised beyond the point of Syndicalism, honestly; groups of unionised people would be effective, especially if they worked with a centralised body.

The problem with Republicans and right-wing ideology is its promotion of bigoted and fascist authoritarian values.

@ayachan
As someone whose ideal is as stateless and decentralized as possible

I like the idea of guild socialism in a way, I've only read one guy whose written on it in the 1920s but I find the idea in the modern rlly facinating as the most interesting take on syndicalism

I feel like with democracy people have focused on freedom (which can be granted and revoked arbitrarily) too much rather than autonomy
@cardboard @KyokiKafuka