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Military chiefs ruling over regional fiefdoms are the problem by StudyTheDerg in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[-] StudyTheDerg@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Actually, I have a whole sublemmy dedicated to promoting exactly this.

What the article is describing is actually a mark of a state withering away if military commanders start turning into warlords. It appears to be in the incipient phases.

Why is being a nice and good person less rewarding? by StudyTheDerg in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] StudyTheDerg@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

The ideal, if you want to get nice behavior out of people, is to be strict and fair at the same time with them. If people are nice to you, you treat them ten times more nicely. If people are mean to you, you treat them ten times more meanly, and seek out every opportunity to break their happiness until they surrender. You do not have to be evil; it is not good to always be mean like the evil people do, since they create enemies who will come to you for support, and that is their weakness. You just have to be just and measured, rewarding those who do you well, and punishing those who do you wrong.

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Instead of tolerating gun control, why not arm and organize labor-union militias? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by StudyTheDerg@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Instead of guns, why not regulate ammo? by StudyTheDerg in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] StudyTheDerg@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The practical effect of any sort of gun (or bullet) control would be to disarm the working class. I will not be disarmed under any circumstances, and the vast majority of American workers, convinced communists or not, will agree with me on refusing to disarm.

"Where the workers are employed by the state, they must arm and organize themselves into special corps with elected leaders, or as a part of the proletarian guard. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." (Marx, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm)

Tankies hate this one weird trick by StudyTheDerg in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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Reclaiming Communication Sovereignty from Corporate Censors: Can you get local governments to create their own social media using Lemmy clients/servers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by StudyTheDerg@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Why are people critical of democratic socialism? by StudyTheDerg in c/socialism@lemmy.ml

[-] StudyTheDerg@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Engels again on tribalism:

"Within the tribe there is as yet no difference between rights and duties; the question whether participation in public affairs, in blood revenge or atonement, is a right or a duty, does not exist for the Indian; it would seem to him just as absurd as the question whether it was a right or a duty to sleep, eat, or hunt. A division of the tribe or of the gens into different classes was equally impossible."

Anti-tribal sentiment has no place in a communist movement.