What gives the urban workers the right to impose their preferred form of government or economic system on the peasants? They claim that the Revolution gives them that right. But revolution is no longer revolution when it becomes despotic, and when, instead of promoting freedom, it begets reaction.
The immediate, if not the ultimate, goal of the Revoution is the extripation of the principle of authority in all its possible manifestations; this aim requires the abolition and, if necessary, the violent destruction of the State, because the State, as Proudhon demonstrated so well, is the younger brother of the Church, it is the historical consecration of all despotism and all privilege, the political reason for all economic and social servitude, the very essence and center of all reaction. Whoever in the name of the Revolution wants to establish a State-even a provisional State-establishes reaction and works for despotism, not freedom; for privilege, not for equality...
Where did the French socialists get the preposterous, arrogant, and unjust idea that they have the right to flout the will of ten million peasants and impose their political and social system upon them? What is the theoretical justification for this fictitious right? This alleged right, in fact, is another bourgeois gift, a political inheritance from bourgeois revolutionism. And it is based on the alleged or real superiority of intelligence and eduction, ie, the supposed superiority of urban over rural civilization. But you should realize that this principle can easily be invoked to justify every conquest, and consecrate all oppression. The bourgeoisie have always used this principle to prove that it is their exclusive mission and their exclusive right to govern (or what adds up to the same thing), to exploit all the workers. In conflicts between nations as well as between classes, this fatal principle sanctions all invasive authority. Did not the Germans repeatedly invoke this principle to excuse their onslaughts against the liberty and independence of the Slavic and other peoples and to legitimize their violent and imposed Germanization? Was it not their claim that such subjugation is the triumph of civilization over barbarism?
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This being the case, I will then be asked, Must we then abandon the ignorant and superstitious peasants to the reaction? By no means! Reaction must be uprooted in the country as well as in the rural areas. I will then be told: In order to do this, it is not enough to say we want to destroy the reaction; it must be eliminated, and this can be accomplished only by decrees. Again I say, by no means! On the contrary, and all history proves it, decrees, like all authority in general, abolish nothing; they only perpetuate that which they were supposed to destroy.
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This can be done in only one way, by speaking to the peasants in a manner which will impel them in the direction of their own interests. They love the land? Let them take the land and throw out those landlords who live by the labor of others! They do not like paying mortgages, taxes, rents, and private debts? Let them stop paying! And lastly, they hate conscription? Don't force them to join the army!
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The other thing that impresses me is that Bakunin is just straight-up correct about what the results of authoritarian communism will be on every level, despite being the contemporary of Marx he predicts everything that will go wrong with state communism half a century in advance.
I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.
The narrative use of it is against the protagonist like 90% of the time though so you can't really confront different approaches to conflicts with it much. It's mostly just a way for our protagonist to be put out of commission temporarily.
Stargate Atlantis solved this problem very well, the enemies eat humans so they only stun people.
I've never played FF12, but I hear it's rad? So I think that'll be one of my next streaming games. Gonna pick up Zodiac age for....switch maybe? It seems like it's really good on Switch! Apparently the Switch and Xbone versions are slightly better than Ps4?
@Casual Eddy what is the meal you’ve most enjoyed with our SOs together
We’ve had a lot so will accept multiple categories/submissions
Ooh yeah that’s tough
Not counting thanksgivings probably my bday dinner or New Years at prune, one of the red hook outings, or that place in barbaresco I can’t remember the name of
Home cooked meals would be your lamb stew
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@Casual Eddy what is the meal you’ve most enjoyed with our SOs together
We’ve had a lot so will accept multiple categories/submissions
Ooh yeah that’s tough
Not counting thanksgivings probably my bday dinner or New Years at prune, one of the red hook outings, or that place in barbaresco I can’t remember the name of
Home cooked meals would be your lamb stew
What bday dinner? We’ve had a few
Ristorante Rabaiya is the one in Italy I believe
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kinda pretty drunk and playing ranked league hell yeah
autofilled jg my first game even better
whats a champ that requires zero mechanical skill i need that
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vanguard how is vangirl doing i hope you guys are having a wonderful time in nyc
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vanguard how is vangirl doing i hope you guys are having a wonderful time in nyc
She is doing well! At the moment, maybe not so much as she is dog sitting two little shithead dogs for some extra money which is why I am v active on Valentine’s Day
But outside of that health-wise she is well, doing good at work
We’re both kind of burning out on New York so most of our big leisure expenses are looking for an escape
@Casual Eddy what is the meal you’ve most enjoyed with our SOs together
We’ve had a lot so will accept multiple categories/submissions
Ooh yeah that’s tough
Not counting thanksgivings probably my bday dinner or New Years at prune, one of the red hook outings, or that place in barbaresco I can’t remember the name of
Home cooked meals would be your lamb stew
What bday dinner? We’ve had a few
Ristorante Rabaiya is the one in Italy I believe
That’s the one
My 30th at prune where I got to pick the menu for everyone!
Huh apparently there’s never been a recorded case of someone who was born blind being diagnosed with schizophrenia
There’s a body of evidence that schizophrenia is related to disfunction in how we visually interpret the world
Good point. Lemme get my eye gouger and head on down to the psychiatric care centre.
Losing your sight later in life increases your risk for psychiatric disorders though! Possibly because the brain has lost its primary way to interpret the world
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They’re supposed to make your semen taste good
Don't get me started on various tech related lazy writing.
Have I taught you nothing?
It’s cool it was frozen first
Does she use raw eggs? The one time I made it the recipe I used called for raw eggs and it weirded me out but was great
Well I was fine eating it but I felt odd serving it to other people
I think fresh pasteurized eggs are pretty safe though
Giant bowl of mousse.
edit:Mmmmmmm
I haven't made mousse in like 10 years. Shit is real good. A lot of work tho
We ate as much as we could, like a quarter of it, and asked if we could take the rest home
The waiter just said “no”
I guess it all got thrown out?
Also this sounds delightful
1750 calories/day
Stargate Atlantis solved this problem very well, the enemies eat humans so they only stun people.
Technically he said "Non"
We’ve had a lot so will accept multiple categories/submissions
Maybe around maintenance.
It’s all those eyes and wings
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Ooh yeah that’s tough
Not counting thanksgivings probably my bday dinner or New Years at prune, one of the red hook outings, or that place in barbaresco I can’t remember the name of
Home cooked meals would be your lamb stew
imagine thinking you could just save mousse for later
*spits*
Why don’t I go there more often
What bday dinner? We’ve had a few
Ristorante Rabaiya is the one in Italy I believe
autofilled jg my first game even better
whats a champ that requires zero mechanical skill i need that
She is doing well! At the moment, maybe not so much as she is dog sitting two little shithead dogs for some extra money which is why I am v active on Valentine’s Day
But outside of that health-wise she is well, doing good at work
We’re both kind of burning out on New York so most of our big leisure expenses are looking for an escape
That’s the one
My 30th at prune where I got to pick the menu for everyone!
There’s a body of evidence that schizophrenia is related to disfunction in how we visually interpret the world
Good point. Lemme get my eye gouger and head on down to the psychiatric care centre.
it's a really good idea and will look cool
Losing your sight later in life increases your risk for psychiatric disorders though! Possibly because the brain has lost its primary way to interpret the world
Might get a smaller calf one first
What did you get??