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   sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:08:39 JST sz_duras

   @tofol.bsky.social short memory haven’t you, mine is better than yours, laughs.

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:08:38 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras @tofol.bsky.social In light of Brennan's critique of use of #biopower, it's essential to explore how this may obscure the realities of contemporary #capitalism. As I discussed in my recent post, Brennan's insights resonate with #Illich's critique of institutional monopolies and #Latour's theory of actants. This interplay reveals the complexities of power dynamics and suggests that #Deleuze's "micro-ruptures" can challenge dominant structures. https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113724435018959442

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:08:38 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus i'll read your post later today, however the issue remains of Latour's liberalism... can the Latour work be appropriated from its current users, left-liberals like Tooze? There are too many bad ideas in Latour to make this an easy task. @tofol.bsky.social

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:05 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus not so, anarchism whether of the right or left has no strategic position worth speaking of. How can it when its impossible for it to deal with the huge multigenerational that we live within… #libertarianism is a meaningless ideological concept

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:06 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras Concerning Nietzsche individualism : we might have to agree that Nietzsche individualism is plurial, so an opposite form to the currently well understood and applied Ayn Rand individualism. I posted this https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113791557669265735 KR,

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:06 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus the key concept is 'individualism' not the typing and the context your proposing --- the problem with individualism is that its cannot be appropriated from the right and what's more it shouldn't be

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:06 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras The current political spectrum overlooks #anarchism, focusing solely on statist parties. Even the #farleft remains within this framework, weakening its strategic position. #Anarchists, the only ones challenging the state's institutional monopoly, are rendered invisible. It's time to revise this spectrum to include these #libertarian perspectives, often mistaken for general #abstention. Let's rethink our political vision for a more accurate and complete representation! #PoliticalTheory

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:07 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras L'individualisme de Nietzsche affirme qu'une puissance créatrice peut (doit ?) s'opposer aux puissances destructrices telles le néolibéralisme et l'illibéralisme. Cela ce joue aussi finement que peut être la distinction entre nihilisme actif et nihilisme passif, selon Nietzsche toujours. Et Nietzsche l'était bien, je le crois, nihiliste ... et je souhaite préciser ma pensée en ce sens, qu'il n''y a d'autre choix, je le crois, que d'être nihiliste, en somme.. Actif, "tant qu'à faire"?

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:07 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras in this frame, in this contract, ( which becomes necessary, Nietzsche would have admitted it also in our situation i'm pretty sure ), here is from my point of view, the added value of any post-cartesianism, to be considered urgently. https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113783585241189219

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:08 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras Hello, my best wishes for the new year. My point of view, is that it should be nietzchean, and understood that way, and I'm prepared to defend my point of view in a contraddictory discussion. What are your main critics about any "nietzchean contract" ? Thanks a lot for your attention. have a nice day. HH

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:08 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus Perhaps I can be clearer - there is no need for Neitzsche in the Natural Contract, there is a need for post cartesian, communism and degrowth... none of which requires Neitzsche or any of the leftwing Neitzschean lines of thought.

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:08 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras une des premières critiques que j'adresserai à un assemblage de "post-cartésianisme, du communisme et de décroissance" , est qu'il n'est aucune mention de la Liberté. Celle qu'il nous faut défendre, et la Nature avec. Nietzsche réunit les deux. Deleuze est le digne représentant de la pensée nietzschéenne et intègre la vision du progressisme ( socialisme ). Dans cette voie, la seule concession que je m’apprête à discuter, la plus "décroissante", serait celle du conatus spinoziste.

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:08 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus if this is a definition of “freedom” based on the West, then its a pure corruption, as individualism must always be. Neoliberalism and illiberalism require that ideological concept.

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:09 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus nothing to say about Brennan, however the Social Contract - is not where we 21st C subjects stand... what's needed in the present is a Natural Contract

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     @sz_duras https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113781422371375148

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     sz_duras (sz_duras@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:09 JST sz_duras

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     @homohortus except it is not in any useful sense Nietzschean and nor should it be misunderstood in that way.

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:27:10 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras @tofol.bsky.social I published my actual work here ! I hope feedback from you : let me know your thoughts about it. thank you a lot for your attention. https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113724435018959442 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113724886129734282 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113724692271176460 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113724639070001037 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113725252411953581 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113725467285567527 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113725378119971411 https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113725683797423814

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:30:50 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     @homohortus @sz_duras

     Workers' co-opts, community assemblies, and mutual aid groups, while they can be useful, aren't enough to replace the current capitalist structure. In a post-capitalist society, counter-revolution would need to be repressed in order to prevent capitalism's restoration. A centeralized state would, therefore, be required in order to repress counter-revolutionary advocacy, speech, organization, etc, something that an anarchist organization would not be able to effectively do

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:30:51 JST Homo Hortus

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     @sz_duras #DualPower: Building Alternative Structures Creating self-managed institutions like worker co-ops, community assemblies, and mutual aid groups can gradually replace existing power structures. As #CorinneMorelDarleux suggests, these grassroots efforts challenge centralized authority. #Ecosocialism #CommunityEmpowerment #AlternativePolitics

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     @Radical_EgoCom @homohortus @sz_duras Where are all those counter-revolutionaries coming from? If whatever we replace capitalism with isn't obviously better than capitalism to a majority of people, maybe we didn't replace capitalism with the right thing?

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     @gpilz @homohortus @sz_duras

     When you replace one system with another, the supporters of the old system don't just dissappear into nothingness. They'll still be in the country trying to create a reactionary movement to restore capitalism. Do you not understand that?

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     @Radical_EgoCom @homohortus @sz_duras Supporters don't "dissappear" [sic], they are persuaded to change their support. If there are so many unpersuaded people that you need to use armed violence to protect the new system against them, then the new system has failed.

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     @gpilz @homohortus @sz_duras

     Every single successful revolution in history has used armed violence to prevent a restoration of the previous system. That's how revolutions succeed. You don't know what you're talking about.

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     @Radical_EgoCom @homohortus @sz_duras I suppose it depends upon how you define "success". I assert that replacing one set of totalitarians for another isn't a "successful revolution".

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     @gpilz @homohortus @sz_duras

     That's just your subjective opinion, which I'm not interested in. When any revolution happens, there will be counter-revolutionaries who want the old order back, and historically, all of these counter-revolutionaries were not able to be peacefully convinced into supporting the new order, making armed violence a necessity for maintaining the new order and preventing the restoration of the old.

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     @Radical_EgoCom @homohortus @sz_duras You are repeating yourself. It isn't improving your argument.

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     @gpilz @homohortus @sz_duras

     You haven't debunked my argument. That's why I keep repeating it. If you've forgotten, my argument is that a revolution needs to use armed violence to prevent counter-revolution. Are you finally going to tell me why you think I'm wrong, or am I going to have to repeat myself again?

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     I'll respond to @Radical_EgoCom about state violence, terror, and terrorist states. I'll post about Leninism, Stalinism, and other kakistocratic systems like Putinism, which are among my research interests. I've posted about Soviet era from 1905 to 1917: https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113808045559829515 It explores Soviet evolution from grassroots workers' councils to instruments of Bolshevik power. @sz_duras @gpilz @tofol.bsky.social @cccp.bsky.social #PoliticalHistory #SovietEra #Kakistocracy

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     Homo Hortus (homohortus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 23:44:28 JST Homo Hortus

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     Hello @Radical_EgoCom, thank you for your insights! I appreciate your perspective on the necessity of a centralized state in a post-capitalist society. It’s crucial to consider how we can navigate these complexities without resorting to violence. I invite you to explore my recently published dossier on starting politics in 2025 without violence, which discusses alternative approaches here https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113809995946429971 Looking forward to your thoughts! @sz_duras @gpilz @cccp.bsky.social

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     A combination of violent and peaceful methods will likely be required to make meaningful societal change. The actions that will be required when attempting to make societal change, especially revolutionary societal change, will depend on the circumstances of the conflict between us and our enemy (the capitalist state), so preemptively swearing off violence without knowing everything about the conflict (which is impossible since we can't see into the future) would be illogical. 1/2

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     Historically, making societal change has oftentimes required a combination of peaceful methods(campaigning, education, peaceful protesting) and violent methods(violent protests, forcefully overthrowing governments). Given this historical precedent, it seems very likely that a combination of both violent and peaceful methods will be required to make societal change, particularly revolutionary societal change. 2/2

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     @Radical_EgoCom in term of effeiciency, science has provided estimations, I let you read about it here : https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113810816687866583

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     This article is referencing research and studies that supposedly prove that nonviolent movements are more successful than violent movements, but there is no source for their statistics. It just says that 53% of nonviolent movements between 1900 and 2006 were successful while only 26% of violent movements in the same timeframe were successful, but where did those numbers come from? What were their criteria for determining what is and isn't a nonviolent movement? 1/2

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     What about movements that employed both violent and nonviolent tactics? This article is nothing but bold assertions with zero empirical evidence to back it up. 2/2

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     @Radical_EgoCom Studies by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan reveal that nonviolent movements have a success rate of approximately 53%, compared to only 26% for violent uprisings. This research demonstrates the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance campaigns in achieving lasting and democratic change. To learn more, check out their study here: Why Civil Resistance Works.

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     This is a book that I have to buy, which I don't have the money for right now. Are there any free scientific papers that prove the veracity of Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan's research, such as peer-reviewed articles by historians who verified the claims of the book?

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     @Radical_EgoCom the claims made by Chenoweth and Stephan regarding the superior effectiveness of nonviolent movements are well-supported by their rigorous research methodology and have been validated through peer review and subsequent studies in the field. i've added an annex to the article shared above. BR,

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     Can you simply give me a link or links to the articles that empirically verify their claims about nonviolent movements?

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     @Radical_EgoCom many links are availables in the annex at the bottom

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     @Radical_EgoCom @homohortus I am interested in the idea that non-violent revolutions have occurred. Where and when?