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mikkmagnificent
yeah i've been without speakers for a while so it's mainly just what i've been listening to at work. now i have speakers and a record player again so i can get back to listening to more music
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Jimsonisolation
Your compatibility with theseasonisours is Medium. You both listen to Despise You, Pig Destroyer and 108. What are you playing at?
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RedArmada
In a more reflective mood, I would say that I think that those free-market libertarians I've met who are not edgy right-wing scum seem to me to be well-intentioned but very misguided, and without realizing it they contradict their own efforts toward freedom in trying to preserve the institution of private property.
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RedArmada
Libertarianism, if you mean the so-called "free market" variety of American libertarian right wing, like Reason magazine Ron Paul/Ludwig von Mises kind of people, is absolute idiocy to me, if it isn't actively fascist and malignant. Capitalists posing as revolutionaries disgust me, and the free market is a fucking illusion. A mode of thought which doesn't just apologize for, but actively champions and validates the institution of private property ownership, landlords, and business owners, I don't tuck with that. Not to mention the inconceivable gall of stealing the term "libertarian" from a century and a half worth of workers' anarchistic social struggle to use for an anti-worker, anti-social, anti-liberty ideology. I would argue more coherently, but I'm getting sort of enraged just thinking about it. I'll spit on a "anarcho-capitalist" any day.
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RedArmada
Plus, J.S. Mill was a heavy apologist for colonialism and "benevolent" despotism of "civilized" Europeans over "barbarians", he believed in the so-called "civilizing mission" of imperialism, which inspires in me deep and overwhelming disgust, that somebody who thought so highly of his own commitment to Liberty could suggest that chains, bullets, whips, cops, priests, teachers, and the almight Law should be applied to socially mutilate, mentally exterminate and culturally reconfigure the world.
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RedArmada
I've read "On Liberty", but overall it left a bad taste in my mouth. If it was as simple a matter as "every individual is alone and must be let to do what they wish", all social problems would have been solved by our current economic-political assemblage, which rigorously enforces separation between people and promotes a kind of intensive individualism. I would argue that if there is value in the concepts of individualism and individual liberty (which I think is highly debatable- where does the individual end and society begin? Where is the boundary between society's realities and an individual's realities? The line can't be drawn), that value does not lie with liberal individualism as proposed by Mill, but with the most radical individualism possible, Nietzchean or Stirnerite individualism, which sheds the precious illusions about the State and the social body.
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mikkmagnificent
happy? hmm not sure about that, i'm a bit homesick but riding it out. it's good to be here and experiencing something different.
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RedArmada
I have a collection of short stories, that's all I've read... Ward Six and Other Stories. It's been a long time. Reading about his life makes me wish to take it up again, and I remember really loving "Ward Six" and "Lady with a Dog", though I generally find the Russian authors to be either scrupulously dull (like Turgenev) or irritatingly whimsical (like Bulgakov).
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