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  • flying_sheepto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneA mile rule
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    22 days ago

    Yeah. Wealth generates wealth. Wealth is power. You got born into a world owned mostly by the super rich, and therefore don’t have equal opportunities.

    No amount of redistribution will prevent this state from re-emerging until wealth accumulation is made impossible.

    It’s pure luck: even if the playing field gets completely leveled once, without systemic changed some people will luck out, get wealthy again, buy newspapers and apartment complexes and therefore monopolizes public expression of opinion and profit from living space.



  • flying_sheepto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneA mile rule
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    27 days ago

    Capitalist anarchism doesn’t exist. Capitalism is a form of unjust hierarchy (or if you want to stick to the literal meaning of “anarchism”: capitalism is a way to create rulers)

    There are capitalist anti-statists, bit being against states isn’t sufficient to make you an anarchist for above reasons.






  • No, that’s the reactionary propaganda doing that.

    Everybody living in this world should be aware that words have context and don’t always literally mean what their parts mean. And even then “patriarchy” is one of the more literal ones: it comes from “pater”/father in the same vein as “paternalistic”, with the same connotation of overbearing-yet-out-of-touch.

    So just from word meaning that clearly doesn’t mean all men, and obviously it also doesn’t refer to literal fathers either.



  • flying_sheeptoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksFeelings? Nah
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    1 month ago

    “patriarchy” in this context means something other than you think, I.e. it means a system that upholds gender roles that benefit a (majority male) ruler class, e.g. by encouraging worker class men to go to war for their benefit, worker class women to be caretakers, and so on.

    The counterpart to this definition of “patriarchy” is a society with no stratified gender roles, not “matriarchy”.