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Idealism can make you do violent acts when putting it into practice
Which is why socialism is based on materialism, not idealism. You got dangerously close to making a point. Are you feeling okay? Still wasn’t relevant to what I said, though - how do you reconcile your view of anarchists as violent thugs, with the view of them as soft pushovers with no backbone?
Let me give you a hint - this specific contradictory view of leftists has its roots in fascist ideology:
“Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation.”
Socialism claims to be based on materialism, yet is a Manichean and quasi-messianic religion
This only tells me you haven’t bothered to read any socialist theory - even a skim of a youtube video could tell you that all socialist claims are about material reality. Material conditions are central to socialist philosophy. Have you never heard of historical materialism, or dialectical materialism?
And to suggest that it boils reality down to a battle of good and evil is… just baffling. Socialism relies on no moral claims whatsoever. Capitalism is simply irrational. Its mechanism just don’t work. Morality doesn’t even need to come up in discussion.
Yes, it’s all simplified to a battle between good workers and evil exploiters, and a messianic prophecy of the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the stablishment of communism
Quote me where you heard this. Any socialist also sympathises with the capitalist.
So, who is the messiah? Socialists favour collective action over charismatic leaders.
Sympathise with “the capitalist” like the Nazis who wanted to send the Jews to Madagascar instead of killing them?
Also, you don’t seem to get metaphors, do you?
You just flip flopping don’t you? I thought you didn’t like moralising between good and evil? The sympathy is becuse capitalists must exploit in order to make a living, and if they’re a good person, it must be a hard thing to have to do.
Yes, I get it’s a metaphor and doesn’t literally mean a song of God leading people to tge promised land. But the metaphor means a hero or liberator at the very least: an individual leading their people out of oppression into freedom. Socialists don’t think like this. It should be a democratic, popular, grssroots movement not led by any individual.
Where does it say it has to be an individual? “Workers” could be the messiah
Also, no you don’t “empathise with the capitalist” don’t lie to yourselves