• Sybil@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      large scale

      this is a setup for a no-true-scotsman. i’ll talk to you about anarchist societies, but i won’t let you define them out of existence.

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          9 months ago

          i’m saying until you define “large scale” you gave your self enough wiggle room to push every scotsman into the sea.

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                  9 months ago

                  I guess I just don’t understand what you’re getting at…I don’t have a chart of population sizes. I’m just going to say I don’t know, but an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

                  let’s say, though, that none ever existed. so what?

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                    9 months ago

                    If none exist while socialist projects exist, that suggests that the ideology is nonviable at large scales at this point in time. And “just waiting” while capitalism cripples the biosphere and kills millions is an expression of prioritizing your own perfectionism over preventing actual suffering.