131 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 19 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: Orange Pilling Your Lefty Friends bitcoin
No congratulations are in order since I have accomplished nothing. You raise a good point about the means of production. The Marx/Engels "withering of the state" concept, though a fantasy, presents some common ground too. Most modern U.S. progressives, unfortunately, worship the state and its power.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinFoqus 20 Oct 2023
The worship of the state is an odd one. I have a friend who is one of these statist types and even something simple like a statement that the internet and it’s benefits are the result of private companies and entrepreneurs taking risk results is an argument that the internet couldn’t exist without the state. Frustrating.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 20 Oct 2023
I know I'm generalizing and stereotyping people, but I'll continue for argument's sake. My fellow US boomers on the left seem to have statist tendencies, but the 18-35 crowd have what I would call an anarcho-syndicalist bent. I find much more common ground with some young people on the left.
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