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Ugh yeah, also this.
I've encountered a truly depressing amount of self proclaimed 'anarchists' who've gone on and fucking on about how if they could just organise their own paramilitaries and forcibly take over the governments to impose 'totally not fascist, we're the good guys!' mandatory regimes of wealth and resource redistribution on the public, they could really fix everything...
And the worst part is that I get it, I was also once a naive and optimistic teenager who read Marx and thought that if I could just explain things to people the right way they'd get it too, and we could fix everything wrong with the world together because most people were fundamentally good and would want to make the world better, if I could just get them to understand Marxist theory...
Lmao, it was fucking soul crushing realising that's not actually how anything works.
At least back then I wasn't on about paramilitaty takeovers and 'anarchism' though, like I get why more people are armchair revolutionary-ing to those extremes now but that's just so much more fucking stupid than believing people are 'mostly good and should read Marx'.
I try not to interract with these types of people any more, I just wish I could stop seeing them pop up so often.
They mix up cause and effect. They think the system is making people shitty, but it's people making the system shitty.
Yes. Any system, ANY system that gets put in place will have to contend with human shittiness. The American Founding Father's tried to split the power 3 ways tri-force style to try and prevent any serious abuses from happening, and yet they are still happening.
No matter what system you devise, these fucking sociopaths will never stop trying to break it for their own personal gain.