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@VoidDrone @ljwrites Absolutely. I certainly think anarchism is possible, though—I can't agree with you there.
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@VoidDrone @ljwrites A good ethical system obliges seeking expansion of freedom regardless of notions of "possibility." Whether or not something seems "utopian" is a subjective degree that we shouldn't put too much stock into—it's a shifting goalpost. The authoritarian ruthlessly critiques anarchism in its apparent incompleteness despite it obliging more autonomy than they already do.
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@nothingwindsky @VoidDrone My problem is not with striving for utopia but with demeaning those who engage in real-world politics by, say, calling them "authoritarian" for working with the power structures that currently exist.
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@juno they're not the only real world politics, but they sure are real world politics. And the U.S. federal government is certainly more real than, say, a hypothetical future where Black people in the U.S. can trust that white people won't attack them without the fear of criminal prosecution to deter them.