• houstoneulers@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Sadly, I’ve experienced too many hypocrites to believe this person actually lives by this mantra. Everyone says what gets them brownie points, but few actually live it. Often times, it’s the ppl that don’t have to say it that actually do this.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    226·
    3 days ago

    If people are defined by their actions then most radicals severely lack empathy.

    Nobody with empathy wants to burn down a state building or join a militant commune in the California hills.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        That’s not a radical ideology. That’s literally a core stance to at least one party’s platform no matter where you are.

        A radical ideology would be thinking that Democrats of the USA or the Greens of Australia or the Labour Party of the UK were NOT the party promoting Equity or Civil Rights, that all sides are evil and that democracy must be torn down and replaced.

        It might be a radical ideology in places like China with the huge ratio of Han chinese to other and their authoritarian government.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
      42·
      2 days ago

      What a myopic take…

      State Buildings are not people, why should we have empathy for inanimate objects? Militant organizations exist to defend people from systemic oppression (at least leftist ones do, cannot say the same for the right wing types) specifically because they empathize with the plight of those being oppressed.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        16·
        2 days ago

        You really think burning down the state buildings will have zero negative effects? That the state doesn’t provide necessary life saving services to the people using money it extracted from industry? You really think the stateless land will be left to sit by opposing world powers who see an easy claim?

        Then you’re an idiot. Burning down a state building kills people whether anybody is inside or not.

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          22·
          2 days ago

          The State itself kills way more than any negative effects of burning down one of their institutions.

          Those services are provided to people through the distribution of resources to communities that need them. The state only exists to control how this happens, and predominantly works to frustrate these efforts in order to facilitate profit growth for the capitalist market.

          As an Anarchist, yes, I fully believe a stateless society would be leagues better than one that suffers under an unjust hierarchy that only exists to serve the interests of capital.

          Nice red herring though with the last point. Never said other States would just sit idly by. Which is why forms of defense will still need to be organized and there are many different ways to organize community defense that don’t rely on a state hierarchy.

          Burning a State building only burns down a building, nothing more.