I think an underappreciated objection to socialism and authoritarianism is the structural one rather than about any specific issue. It's not actually a big deal for society if a specific book gets banned. The big deal is that there is an entity with the power to ban them.
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For any reshaping of society, you need someone who's in charge of that reshaping and powerful enough to force people to do what they want. That's the problem.
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I'd approach it another way: "society" is just a word for "a whole bunch of individuals". If you "reshape" that in any way, you are manipulating people (apparently against their will, bc if they WANTED to do it, they already would have). Same argument, phrased differently.
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Yeah it's probably worth distinguishing evangelistic/persuasive reshaping vs top-down reshaping but to be fair I did specify socialist and authoritarian reshaping in the OP.
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If socialists just encouraged people like EAs do to pledge 10 percent of their income to redistributing to the unemployed they would be a lot less dangerous
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my favorite guy at my current gig is a communist. his plan is to form work coops that will outcompete capitalists, and everyone entrenched in capitalism will abandon it for the better option next door. How can you not love that naivete / niceness ?!?
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if it's a commune, it's not not communism
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