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  • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneA mile rule
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    3 months ago

    Yeah. Wealth generates wealth. Wealth is power. You got born into a world owned mostly by the super rich, and therefore don’t have equal opportunities.

    No amount of redistribution will prevent this state from re-emerging until wealth accumulation is made impossible.

    It’s pure luck: even if the playing field gets completely leveled once, without systemic changed some people will luck out, get wealthy again, buy newspapers and apartment complexes and therefore monopolizes public expression of opinion and profit from living space.


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    Capitalist anarchism doesn’t exist. Capitalism is a form of unjust hierarchy (or if you want to stick to the literal meaning of “anarchism”: capitalism is a way to create rulers)

    There are capitalist anti-statists, bit being against states isn’t sufficient to make you an anarchist for above reasons.



  • “patriarchy” in this context means something other than you think, I.e. it means a system that upholds gender roles that benefit a (majority male) ruler class, e.g. by encouraging worker class men to go to war for their benefit, worker class women to be caretakers, and so on.

    The counterpart to this definition of “patriarchy” is a society with no stratified gender roles, not “matriarchy”.



  • That’s not what that word means. “patriarchs” aren’t men in general, that’s why it’s possible (and in fast true) that the patriarchy harms people of all genders.

    As this post demonstrate, men don’t benefit from it, e.g. it makes us live shorter, it encourages suppressing our emotion, it encourages our aggression. Because some (mostly) men in power benefit if we don’t unionize, let ourselves be pressed into shit jobs or the military, and so on.

    Read the other messages here and you might understand.