"Do you support violent revolution?" You know what? I'm really tired of those who justify, or at best are silent about, the legalized execution of workers by bomb or policeman wagging their moralizing fingers about the masses using violence to defend themselves. Bugger off.
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Replying to @StevenBrust
it's not violence i mind tbh, it's the assumption that complex systems can be made to work in the way one wishes by putting guns to the heads of the people in charge of them
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Replying to @chaosprime
It was, "These people standing in the way of human rights control the armed might of the state. Let's stop them from killing us, shall we?"
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Replying to @StevenBrust
which of those conflicts produced lasting social structures relates a lot to whether they were focused on negative rights or positive rights, innit?
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
with negative rights, violence works great, you just apply violence to anyone crossing the lines. with positive rights, you're now trying to use violence to compel economic activity, which will only work if a spectacularly complex system works exactly the way you think it does
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
traditionally, the way this is approached is that you decide you know how the system works, task someone with operating it, and shoot them when they aren't sufficient administrative geniuses to produce the results you wanted while also making it look as if your model is correct
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Replying to @StevenBrust
the Soviet Union loved that shit, but basically everywhere. it isn't a feature of any economic approach, it's a feature of authoritarianism; it's also the Trump Management Style
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Replying to @chaosprime
"Authoritarianism" is a pretty vague term, and moreover one that leaves out the important questions: authority of which social class against which, and for what reason, produced by what conflicts under what circumstances?
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well i'm glad we've dispensed with vagueness
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