05-26-2021, 12:11 PM
(05-26-2021, 11:59 AM)Graemett Wrote: Also, the former SU was not even close to what I would call socialist or collectivist, a mild definition would be Red Fascism. that's not to say that socialism is not controlled in some forms, but anarchism seeks to liberate and then let the pieces fall where they may, always encouraging autonomy and service to other as a natural human tendency. The problem with all these worldviews we are told exist and people believe them, is that we forget they are just ideas, none of those ideas of political organization actually encompass the reality of the infinitely complex configuration and intersection of billions of M/B/S complexes on this planet.
Any description of SU or similar states with the word fascism would be incorrect per political science. SU and other similar states were 'emergency situation' states - which started with revolutions that external and internal forces tried to repress, and which external forces just kept continually threatening these states for the rest of their existence. US had 2 different plans for attacking USSR and China, one involved wiping out entire region with nuclear weapons, and there was another less drastic plan. Those countries knew of these plans, and they were never able to blink and relax even for a moment. Even after nuclear missiles made earlier plan which US made impossible to implement because MAD has become a reality, delirious psychopaths like Reagan again took the world into the brink of nuclear war risking nuclear holocaust even for themselves.
So all of those countries always stayed in a Ww3 readiness state, mostly militarized, while keeping their emergency law type laws as the norm.
Incidentally, such emergency laws to effect the exact situation exists in every single democratic country. Because in the face of a nuclear war, a global catastrophe or similar major event, these are necessary. And all of them can be activated at a moment's notice.
Which is a major problem with Anarchism - its very good at peacetime when you succeed in pulling it off, but it fails towards major crisis and external enemies. From early neolithic farming communities falling to invaders to Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalists not being able to defend themselves from more organized, centralized forces, this is a major problem with Anarchism, positive polarity, and the 'forces of freedom' which Ra speaks of.