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Tonic wrote

I've read a lot about reparations but I've never read anything about people desiring to share all their possessions in common.

You don't share freely with people you love and build your life together with?

Of anarchism is abolishing private property in the marxists sense I'm anti anarchism.

Did you mean if? if you meant if, anarchism definitely at minimum abolishes private property. Some anarchists will make a distinction between private and personal property. I think about possession in purely pragmatic terms including relations of various kinds of emotional/spiritual attachment in the considerations.

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ruin wrote

Some anarchists will make a distinction between private and personal property.

Most do. Personal property would be your socks, toothbrush, and perhaps your personal space/dwelling.

Private property is productive property. Something that generates value beyond your personal usage and so would be communal or at least beyond the reach of a framework of ownership rights.

Even marxists recognize that while the dictatorship of the proletariat owns the means of production, your underwear are yours and yours alone.

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Tonic wrote

I don't understand why people are attached to this personal/private category set, it seems rigid and impractical.

To continue your example, my partners and I interchangeably use each other's underwear just depending on what's around and what's easiest. We know 'whose' is whose but there is nothing preventing any of us from using the others'. Who bought it or 'owns' it isn't a particularly relevant category for their use, only practical/pragmatic considerations.

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ruin wrote

I’m not sure it’s a matter of attachment, nor an attempt to be absolutist.

I see it as a starting point for a practical evaluation and discussion.

Was really just pointing out that comparing a single toothbrush to land ownership or a privately held toothbrush factory is rather absurd but is an often employed (especially online) anarchist rhetorical tactic.

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Tonic wrote

Cool, I'm basically on board with that.

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Tonic wrote

Reparations and abolishing property are related but not the same

Yes, I have said as much.

If that was true, major arguments from leftists wanting reparations would say they want to abolish property as reparations.

Dissolving property and humanness into the commons is reparations, both including in them a healing process. This is the same as making anarchy, which is the same as decentralising power.

So, it seems odd to say my thoughts on popular reparations strategies are wrong when u have a completely different idea of what reparations should be and disagree with most people who advocate for reparations.

Why would it be odd that I disagree with most people, given that I am an anarchist? There are many types of authoritarians who believe in their own forms of reparation, anarchists will be in the minority, and overtly anarchist ideas on reparation are not so easy to come by.

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kaj wrote

that I am an anarchist?

No, I don't think so. I think you're a communist (anarcho-communist?), which is fine as long as you don't blindly support terrible things that Trotsky, Stalin... did for the "greater good" (like killing the anarchists in Ukraine, Kronstadt, etc.).

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