From: “Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” by Kate Evans.
A tankie will tell you to “read theory” and then get miffed if you read Rosa Luxemburg.
MLs: “The only way to socialism is through violent, top-down revolution.”
Syndicalists, getting every W known to man: “Are we a joke to you??”
“Those who would give up Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” – Benjamin Franklin
The irony that in this quote he was supporting the authority of government specifically on taxation for long term defense. “Temporary” was kind of the whole point.
Which is precisely why it works in this context. He was talking about the Pennsylvania governor’s ability to levy a new tax which some Englanders who ruled from afar were trying to bribe him to veto. His argument was that if people gave up their ability to govern themselves and let some faraway Leviathan do it in the hopes that said Leviathan would keep them safe, they deserved whatever was coming to them. I think this translates nicely onto “Socialism is not some Christmas gift for those who accept a dictator now in the hopes of achieving freedom in the future.”
Trading liberty for safety is the entire point of a society, you absolute dunce.
What’s gone over my head, exactly? The entire purpose of a rules based society is you’re protected, mostly from other people.
So please, explain it.
What’s annoying is that we probably would be a whole lot closer to actual communism and anarchism if the bolsheviks never took power and destroy all the communism that was happening during the Russian revolution.
Yup, and for a deep dive into the history of how this happened in both the USSR and Maoist China, I’d recommend Anark’s series The State is Counterrevolutionary.
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