• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    There are plenty humans civilizations who did a better job at preventing power

    I didn’t make the claim. I’m honestly curious as to what civilization(s) you meant? I couldn’t name one currently.

    • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      Many native societies (who often still exist today), the zapatistas, in the ZADs, the Paris commune, Rojava, and also potentially most of the time humanity existed. I could dig up more, but arguing with somebody who has opinions like that is tedious.

      “Meanwhile, antihumanists have divested the very concept of Progress of all relevance and meaning in the farrago of human self-denigration that marks the moods of the present time. A skepticism that denies any meaning, rationality, coherence, and continuity in History, that corrodes the very existence of premises, let alone the necessity of exploring them, renders discourse itself virtually impossible”

      Bookchin, you can find the context here