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Liberals and conservatives see different victims: Study finds political battles stem from opposing views on who is vulnerable to harm (www.buffalo.edu)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1364871/liberals-and-conservatives-see-different-victims-study-finds-political-battles-stem-from

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[–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

1936 Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War organized an Anarchist society with over 3 million participants, and they documented much of how exactly they ran it, right down to how they kept the electric trams for public transport going (there is a fantastic book embedded at the bottom of that article, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution by Gaston Leval, which offers more details on other aspects of how they operated that society).

It's a fantastic historical event we can learn from and build upon, and it bore out quite effectively that a decentralized society functions quite well.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    I still see it as short-lived. I think there is stuff we can learn from that example but I don't see a reason to just automatically assume everything they did was the best. There have been leftist movements all over the world with varying degrees of success which we can learn from and look at what examples have produced what results.

    Another reason I'm skeptical of short-lived projects is because people tend to project perfect idealized visions of what could've been. The result is somewhat backwards where only the projects that fail can serve as models for emulation. It's important to remember that the stakes of failure can often mean decades of fascist rule. Survival is more important that perfection.

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