In other thread I got vibe that majority of Lemmy users support communism and CCP. Is support for Russia/Putin? Or have I just stumble in a post dominated by those people.
I also read a phrase “lemmy.ml” user. Is lemmy.ml instance considered communist?
I understand there will be more left leaning users in Lemmy compared to Reddit. But I expected moderate left and not radical communist left.
What is your opinion on that?
I respect its supporters (do they respect me, that is the real question) but must admit I am not one. It places prestige on characteristics that aren’t equal opportunity in such a way that I cannot reconcile my view of humanity with it.
This is essentially why I’m an anarchist, it literally puts everyone on the same level and people who are put in places of responsibility report to everyone below them, and that responsibility can be recalled at any time.
I find people become communists over time and with some persuasion, but after learning about anarchy I found I already believed in every facet of it. If you have basic human decency, then you’ll likely be surprised how much you believe in it too.
What is it called where you believe in the validity of authority but only on a conditional level?
I’m really not sure, I’m not the biggest theory person tbh. Depending on what you’re thinking of, that could just be anarchy.
I don’t want to assume what you mean, but if you’re perhaps talking about something along the lines of following and listening to experts, then that’s understood to be a positive thing to us anarchists. To use a painfully fresh example, following scientists/medical professionals on public health decisions, rather than conspiracy theorists
Like… to start off, I’ve heard of what is referred to as Minarchy, which etymologically means a minimal government (or one run by “voluntarism”), but that doesn’t sound like what I convey. “Relationship anarchy” (one would say a principle of mine, and I look to that here) for one has often been placed under the umbrella of libertarian thought but it’s closer to a conditional thing. If there are things I’d refer to as a creator (my parents, the sun if it were sentient, maybe God, etc.), I would obey them and not be “anarchist” towards them, as I also may towards peers and contemporaries on a basis of agreement, or towards people who create a club/service so as long as it’s within the bounds of what they made (think back to relationship anarchy), even bypassing my own sense of voluntarism/liberty in the process, but a ruler (whether or not elected) that says “[from the moment you’re born] I am automatically your authority because that’s just how it works”, that’s not (unless agreed to in hindsight by an individual) valid if you ask me. Note good and bad derivatives/foundations, which also explains my comments surrounding subsidiarism and localism; at least in a town context, there is some increased level of regard to what I’m saying.