I see this in various flavors of anarchism and I don't get how it would work in practice. Hierarchies form to simplify the logistics and social cohesion of a disorganized network of subunits.
As a basic example, how the hell do collectives even communicate with those on other continents? It took millenia for humans to develop reliable seafaring technology, only made possible through the direction of state actors. Sea cables cost millions to maintain; satellite communication is even harder to achieve.
Assuming that any of these could even be accomplished strictly via collectives ("Why the hell should I give you my Chilean copper so you can throw it in the ocean to talk to Europe?"), operating these essential services gives access to power and coercion.
Somebody has to launch the ships or run the heart of the telegraph network. Will you centralize the authority of multiple collectives to regulate and monitor it?...
And if you don't do anything to bridge the ocean, what's to prevent ideological drift for that continent; getting a little too centralized for more efficient resource use? Even if your accessible web remains strong and ideologically pure, you have to pray that completely separate webs will be just as strong.
Anarcho-primitivism is the only critique that seems to own the inherent anti-civilization logic, but even then there's nothing stopping a collective-of-collectives from making a bigger pile of sharp rocks to subjugate you.
I'm not sure how that link is supposed to refute anything? It says basically what the comment above says without using the phrase "mixed economies".
If you meant the power structure and public/private balance is heavily capitalist for Nordic countries then you'd probably want to post something else supporting that statement.
Never felt that for the Civil War but WW2 history has a shameful stigma as well. I'm just here for the unfathomable high-water mark of human achievement, ingenuity, and international cooperation. Salivate over goose-stepping fascists somewhere else.
No, delusional is the right word. You can be mind numbingly stupid but still see cause and effect; food prices going up after his inauguration is a very basic and tactile thing.
Delusion is taking that lived experience and warping reality to fit your mental narrative.
But I was told a judge could stop any bad guy if he banged his gavel hard enough! He has a magic asset freeze gun that cripples fascists! Now you're telling me the people in charge of the treasury can do literally whatever they want?
They're a minority because it's an extremely dangerous and low success-rate way to enter. You're comparing global affluent population shuffling to actual poverty migration. The vast majority of the globe doesn't have the skills desired for a work visa, much less the ability to pay the costs of relocation. If people desperately needed to migrate quickly, that's the only way they can.
Poland is a weird example to pick, they're very publicly in the news right now for blocking a refugee initiative. They may have lax requirements for legal entry at this moment, but all signs point to a shift.
All migration is population pressure, I can assure you these governments don't care if you're from the USA fleeing fascism or a South-Asian country fleeing wet bulb events.
I thought the concept of lebensraum was violently debunked nearly 80 years ago but apparently some people didn't get the memo. Sounds like most of you skipped the lesson on how appeasement turns out too.
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Its pretty morally clear cut when you use your own brain to think about it.
Yes, a lot of different states get involved in an international conflicts. Its not pretty or squeaky clean, that's how war works. If you didn't want that then you should have opposed the decades of aggression from Putin's Russia, it's a bit late to get your hackles up now.
But you do you man, you can whatabout and bothsides all the way to the firing squad. I'll be rooting for your gold medal in the mental gymnastics event.
That's... literally what it is? Is there a magical threshold of time or number of protesters illegally whisked away where it suddenly becomes a problem?
Point is it's not something a "normal person" can do. It's an obscenely privileged thing to even suggest. Most countries require proof of enough wealth to support yourself and your family before you can even start the process. And it's only going to get more strict as countries start locking their doors to climate refugees.
More realistically your exit involves an overflowing boat straight to a migrant camp, then "remigrated" back as the world plunges into a recession and the locals don't want you. And that's if you're lucky.
One of these two actors is actively and aggressively siezing strategic territory needed for a sound position in a changing climate. I'll give you a hint: neither of them give a shit about living in Russia.
I hope to see this same victim blaming enthusiasm when America invades Canada and Greenland for the same reasons.
Don't knock schizophrenia till you try it. 9/10 voices in my head recommend it.