• SNEWSLEYPIES@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The “i don’t want factions” faction

    Which you’ve just invented. No such animal exists unless you insist on comprehending the world in absolutes. It’s an unhelpful choice.

    irreconcilable differences in ideology

    There are none. When you choose an ideology that claims there are, then you are de facto giving up on politics in favour of fighting.

    The reason we as a species gradually invented politics over the last five or ten thousand years is precisely to reconcile differences of opinion that would otherwise lead to conflict. A refusal to partake in it would be base barbarism, in my estimation.

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      There are none. When you choose an ideology that claims there are, then you are de facto giving up on politics in favour of fighting.

      You did not answer my question. What is the reconcilable position between “private property exists” and “private property does not exist” ?

      If you can’t answer this then you must accept that all you are saying is “stop having politics that can’t be reconciled” which is just out of touch with reality.

      The reason we as a species gradually invented politics over the last five or ten thousand years is precisely to reconcile differences of opinion that would otherwise lead to conflict. A refusal to partake in it would be base barbarism, in my estimation.

      What? “Politics” is not about reconciliation. It is a battle between competing ideologies created by contradictions in society for the securement of the power to implement those ideologies. The very idea that you think a person of colour can reconcile with the people that want that person exterminated or deported is utterly absurd. “Politics” does not simply take place in the halls of institutions dedicated to policy either, politics also takes place in the streets, in the workplace, and through the barrel of a gun. Seeing politics solely as what occurs in westminster is an extremely narrow field of view, lgbt people for example did not achieve all the gains they have in the halls of power, they achieved them in the streets. Similarly workers rarely ever achieve their victories in the halls, they achieve them in the streets and the workplace.