Tankies are much closer to any capitalist and right winger then they are to leftists. They pretty much use the same tactics as capitalists and even fascists for everything. They lack the ability to understand why you can't just force communism on people after not giving a fuck about even teaching the people about communism. They call them selfs communists not because they see the power it has to being better lives to the people but instead see the type of status that a communist country can get and they see the power that communist countries have as something to be proud of above all else. They see the issues that the common people face as small so the USSR wasn't a fail because to them it did everything it needed to since helping the common people was never even the plan.
Law is just software that runs on people. In the US, the programming language is English, the OS is the United States Government and the kernel is the Constitution. States can be thought of as containers within this system.
Our current system is badly corrupted and needs a reinstall. Our devs basically write malware to benefit their donars. We even have ransomware (such as the budget negotiations). Our current system, built on democratic principals as they were understood 250 years ago, is totally clogged up with bloat, malware and closed source code doing who knows what. All the platforms are maximum enshittified. It's like a 15 year old Windows install where it's the only computer in the house, your grandmother has been clicking on every flashy blinky ad, your grandfather fancies himself a software engineer and has been messing around in Control Panel and they won't let you touch it because screw you, they got theirs. Meanwhile your parents are at work 80 hours a week and "don't use the computer anyway" because they're just too tired to care.
The only thing to do with a system like that is to nuke it and reinstall. Everyone knows you can't repair it.
We should replace it with something much more opensource. How about direct democracy using some sort of... oh I don't know, some system of commits and pull requests. If someone writes some racist bullshit, well, everyone can see who he was and you can flame him on law hub. You can even just ban bad actors and trolls.
Would it be perfect and uncorruptible? No. Would the community always make the kind of decisions I would want? Definitely no. Would it be a massive improvement over what we have? Hell yes.
So what is crime then if law is our OS? Virus?
Crime is an architectural feature of organizations of humans. It would still exist, even if we took the code off humans entirely.
What we call "Crime" is just a lack of buy in to the system and a willingness to operate outside its parameters for whatever reason.
There's a sort of objective, philosophical definition of crime, like most people will probably agree that torture is a crime against humanity for instance. But for the purposes of legal code, crime is just choosing not to cooperate with the system when it gives you instructions or sets boundaries or attempts to impose consequences. There will be humans that make these kinds of choices for all kinds of various reasons for as long as there is a system that involves humans. Nothing about the model I'm proposing would fix that, although if you engineer your system more intelligently, taking human behavior into account, there will probably be a lot less crime and a lot less criminals.
I've been really grappling with the idea of copyright protection. I'm not sure I believe in the idea that you have the inherent right to profit from something you create independently from other people peoples right to copy the idea.
My reasoning comes from a more general principal that I've been exploring that all creativity is copying in some form. There is no novelty in a vacuum.
I'm not sure if its a hot take or even a good or logically coherent take. Just something I've been thinking.
I mean it depends on the context. Like getting rid of intellectual property while capitalism is still in full swing would really only screw over the small time artists, but in an ideal society it would be abolished.
Seems controversial around these parts. But I cannot for the life of me support a lot of the authoritarian governments that claim to be leftist, especially the DPRK. I've read all the literature (finally) and I can't believe any leftist would support them. I understand the importance of an authoritarian government during times of revolution, but the countries that employ it almost always feel anti-leftist and contradictory to leftist theory. I'm only recently this far left and I may just need more exposure. But even by their own metrics I don't believe them to be leftist and they only use those labels to further indoctrinate people. Cuba is the only country I will support and even then, they've made inherently pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist decisions that make me feel that they too are moving into the position of being an authoritarian capitalist country with a mask of leftist bastardization.
Blockchain technology could be useful to build socialism.
I have a few.
Tankies aren't left-wing.
The second-biggest mistake the left ever committed was to leave religion to be fully co-opted by the right.
The anarchist critique of hierarchy is the most important critique the left has.
Also, anarchism, as an "ideology," isn't worth shit.
Power cannot be destroyed - it can merely be re-distributed.
We will probably never be able to get rid of currencies.
When it comes to socialism, close enough is good enough - but the state owning everything isn't close at all.
Meat is murder and non-vegan leftists are being inconsistent in their beliefs
"b-but it's a justified and necessary hierarchy!" Jk
