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    7 months ago

    They aren’t making fun of you for having read The Conquest of Bread.

    They are making fun of you for thinking that was enough.

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        7 months ago

        Currently I am reading the island of the day before by Umberto Eco.

        Its pretty good, but not his best.

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            7 months ago

            I’m not sure I thought just 1 thing about it when I finished it. Can you be more specific in your question?

            Go easy on me now, I haven’t read it in probably 14 years. You would probably get more of asking me about “Red Victory!”, and its portion on the early months of famine.

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                7 months ago

                In general I find democratic socialism to work better than anarchism, and I think the majority of people will never accept anarchism of any form, though I think rural areas are much more capable of experimentation over cities.

                But to get back to the original point, theory is where it stops for a lot of people. They have no true ability to practice leftism in any meaningful context, and I think they hold it against the rest of us who have found ways to accomplish that within the system.

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                    7 months ago

                    So you decided to respond to me telling another person that reading the literature is not good enough by attempting to figure out if I have done the reading, and once you discovered I have, you decided to just repeat my own original point back to me as if it was your own idea.

                    I gotta say, the pedantry is expected from an anarchist. Good faith seems to be an allergen to your movement.