Yeah, I have a terminally racist relative and was trying to explain to her why we should look after refugees. I asked her if her neighbor's house burnt down whether she would invite them inside and offer them some shelter and comfort, and she agreed that "of course" she would. Then I asked about if it was someone from the next street over, and she immediately became hesitant about it. Sometimes I think as a species we just never psychologically evolved beyond living in a tiny village and fearing anyone we don't know personally.

We've tried less democracy and we're all out of ideas!

People really need to read Marx man…

He literally described fascism decades before it was born. He said the contradictions of capitalism would cause people to look for solutions, and a “false” path people would find was that indeed capitalism had to be overcome. But that they had to return to a pre-capitalist life, return to the land and to feudalistic idealisms. Fascist Italy literally had “guilds”…

Marx said these “anti-capitalists” would see value in communist rhetoric, because they agreed with communists half-way. But they missed that the only solution is to move forward. That before capitalism, there were contradictions that inevitably led to capitalism, and it would just happen again.

Fascism is literally miopic anti-capitalism. It’s what happens to actual justifiable dissatisfaction and anger at the system without theory and understanding.

Yes, fascism really does sound like communism. It’s the goal, it’s how it’s born. It SOUNDS like communism, but has none of the solutions or the substance.

I honestly don't see how literally all politics don't boil down to "apes together strong".

Some of them have smart apes manipulating the rest to use their strength against their own interest. Some of them have apes going together using their strength to enforce things we don't agree with, like racist tribalism/nationalism. But it's all a matter of people cooperating to enforce and otherwise enable what they think they need to, to meet their goal.

Evil spoon man 😢

scary socialism coming to give people a better life in general

Funnily enough, even the fascists agree. The man who convinced me of that fact, and thus of socialism compared to social democracy, was Jordan "Literally a Nazi" Peterson.

In some rant of his he threw out some factoid to claim that population growth can keep expanding forever because "each new worker produces seven times more resources than they will consume in their life"

Regardless of the literal brain damage it takes to come to that conclusion from that factoid, the actual numbers aren't far off. It's a bit more complicated but the result is the same, a post scarcity society beset by parasites.

Not technically; explicitly. Not the garbage they've been shoveled down their throats all this time. Real change with real benefits to the workers. But I guess they don't want that for whatever reason.

In your view, what differentiates Mutualism from Anarcho-syndicalism, and on the other end, from Anarcho-communism?

Sweden has something like 20% of housing under housing cooperatives which I like as a Mutualist who doesn't like shareholder ownership or government ownership.

Yes. You should read some basic anarchist theory, it's all about working together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid

Anarchism, not anarchy. It's the left wing variety of Libertarian (although the term Libertarian was originally synonymous with anarchism). So ideologies like Syndicalism, Distributism, Georgism, Mutualism, and some forms of Communalism are Anarchist in the economic sense as they don't rely on an authoritarian state owned economic system. This is why I get annoyed when people equate capitalism with free market and socialism with state-ownership when that's actually the authoritarian-anarchist axis. Many anarchist ideologies like Mutualism have a free commodity market, but disallow a capital market.