falloutnewvegastransedmygender:
as ever i will note that anarchism is a big ideology filled with many anarchists, and i am only talking about a specific subsection here: but so many of my interlocutors on this seem to struggle with the concept of ‘democracy’
for all their grandstanding about how marxists don’t respect the workers it is apparently beyond them to imagine those workers electing their own leaders (the natural result of abstracting 'power’ into an unknowable self-sustaining spiritual evil)
Power isn’t some unknowable thing but it does breed evil. It creates a divide among the people and creates separate classes with separate interests. Any form of power of coercion is inevitably going to lead to a divide between those with power and those without.
you’ve put the cart before the horse, how in god;s name is there supposed to be a significant divide between the subjects and rulers if the rulers all necessarily derive from the subject class. like do they magically turn evil the moment they get voted in, be real
if a ruling party has regular internal investigations and audits of abuses, if the ruling class can be held accountable to their subjects, and means of nepotism and cronyism are mitigated, there isn’t gonna be a major rift between leaders and subjects
fuck’s sake, the ussr fucked up one time with krushchev and now every fucking communist party is treated as an authoritarian bureau-tyranny regardless of actual efforts to mitigate development of a bureaucrat class within party echelons
like you know xi jinping, guy failed to get into the CPC despite having family in it, multiple times, like idk, maybe it’s imperfect, but there’s clearly mechanisms to prevent dynastic bullshit
and while we’re on the CPC, a curious little thing emerges wherein many party members and familys thereof are actually generally happy at the loss of privileges brought on by xi’s anticorruption movements, which does point to some interesting false conciousness in an inverse with how the petit-bourgeoise act
anyways, tl;dr, you seem really fucking opposed to the idea workers themselves can act as both subject and ruler within a state and seem to think any attempt by the working class to organize a leadership and administration for themselves is necessarily doomed to failure