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  • "Anarchism is not about [...] class or opposing archists"

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  • The image is kind of needlessly inflammatory, I'm an anarchist on lemmy and none of these apply to me.

    I will grant that there's certainly a lot of anarchists that are a little too eager to get bloodthirsty about russians and get dogmatic about other leftists particularly on lemmy.

    That said I don't think reproducing that type of behavior in the opposite direction is helpful either.

    I will tap the rule 3 sign on this one, and ask you to please remove the image.

  • "Anarchism is not about [...] class or opposing archists"

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  • I ran into a different person (not an anarchist) the other day acting as if it was just ridiculous for an anarchist to be using a class-based reading of authority.

    If freedom of press, freedom of movement, etc are impeded, then there is no democracy. You’re an anarchist. You should agree with this

    I'm an anarchist so my day to day organizing is going to look different in approach than a marxists', however I can still share an understanding of what our political-economic terrain is, and what the direction we need to go is.

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  • not like this!

  • Account banned on lemmy.ml/c/communism for 'rule 4' - in a community with no rules, that I've never posted in.

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  • considering their immediate reaction to me complaining about their misogynistic post title was to perm ban me for 'homophobia' I'm pretty comfortable saying that they're the thin skinned one

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  • honestly I figured it was busy enough in the top right without adding every countries flag, they would all go either in the social democracy zone or somewhere getting targeted by the obamadrone.

    Russia and similar states probably more in the center top.

  • Account banned on lemmy.ml/c/communism for 'rule 4' - in a community with no rules, that I've never posted in.

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  • YDI, every interaction I've had with you has been toxic, can't really blame anyone who bans you

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  • I should hope they're not independent, it's the same axis.

    The x axis is reform vs revolution, this is independent from the question of who directs the authority, which is the y axis.

    the original political compass allows for people, who are in favor of a dictatorship of capital and are opposed to changing it, to portray themselves as various degrees of 'libertarian' or even 'left'. They are anything but in my opinion.

    I don't think authority can be separated from context of political economy, as it is in the original one. If anything splitting those up like they're independent variables is muddying the waters.

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  • China is in the center, the rest would be somewhere in the top right.

    does Brazil count as 'eastern'?

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  • It's not exactly serious, I wouldn't be using a silly meme template like this otherwise.

    There is a difference between authority used against capital and authority used in favor of capital, something which is kind of swept under the rug in the original template.

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  • 'Democracy' can mean liberal freedoms such as those, or it can mean participatory decision-making.

    My plot isn't defining democracy as 'free press', it's defining democracy structurally as distributed authority among many actors.

    A system can restrict certain freedoms and still be structurally decentralized, just as a system can guarantee civil liberties while keeping power concentrated. The point was more to clearly identify where authority resides, not evaluating whether a system meets liberal-democratic standards.

    The question of who is subject to authority is something obfuscated in the original meme template that I was aiming to correct.

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  • Gotta agree, it's just a caricature of everything outside that range for the most part. Adding Z axis starts to just make it confusing too

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    stethoscope theory

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  • Center and far right are both on the cis side in my portrayal... at least I think I did that right, been a while since I did multivariable calc, and even then these plots mess with my head

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  • Mine pretty clearly distinguishes between people/groups who are in favor of reform vs revolution, as well as those who are in favor of a dictatorship of capital, or in favor of actively suppressing it. The original one does not really disambiguate that. It lumps all sort of people revolutionary or otherwise on 'the left', and includes an entire quadrant for ancap libertarians as if they are not authoritarian in their own way.

    Are you taking issue with the placement of reformists on the right?

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    stethoscope theory

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  • updated, just needed to rotate it a little bit to account for the extra axis

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  • It's so funny that there's a trademark on 'the left', is there some Z axis that makes that make sense?

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  • Things can have a bias and still be objective, and the original one is not unbiased either, it smuggles in all sorts of assumptions.

    The fact that it has an entire quadrant for ancap make-believe should be all the indication you need that the whole thing has a right wing bias.

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  • Authority means different things, depending on the context. Frankly the original political compass made absolutely no sense in how it defined things, hence having an entire quadrant for ancap make-believe.

    In this, positive Y axis corresponds with using authority in favor of bourgeois interests, negative Y axis corresponds with using authority in opposition to bourgeois interests.

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  • the original compass meme is ridiculous, I chose to highlight who is pro dictatorship of capital and not doing anything to fundamentally change it, ie the top right quadrant.

    say what you like about the DPRK, but they are outside of that region on those terms

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  • It's a bit ironic that I can't even read the post asking for alt-text - instance is blocked on my end

    I don't know where I'd begin trying to transcribe this to text, but they seem to take 'political science' very seriously so they'd probably hate it if I did.