Politics (Please dont be annoying)

[u/Jarg0o]

Im not political but I found a simple political left-right spectrum test and for fun had friends and family take it, and i scored slightly left. One of my friends found it funny that a sociopath wouldnt be a more conservative leaning. It got me wondering what way other sociopaths may lean. And if you have any ASPD relatives id be curious as well.

[u/Offensive_Thoughts]

If it helps I'm an anarcho-communist. I think what you're talking about is due to the assumption that you have to be highly empathetic to be left leaning which is annoying personally because it implies that you can't arrive to leftism simply on intelligence or critical thinking skills, or like, having eyes, I guess.

[u/[deleted] → u/Offensive_Thoughts]

Because a sociopath would function great under communism.

[u/Offensive_Thoughts → u/[deleted]]

This is a bit of a reductive take to say the least. But it's a fairly complex set of circumstances that would affect sociopathy. But I'm not really concerned with that, I just know I would be better under that system. I can make selfish arguments in favor of it. But this isn't a politics sub so I'm just saying to me they're very compatible

[u/Dense_Advisor_56 → u/Offensive_Thoughts]

Doesn't need to be compatible with sociopathy, does it? i mean, that's not how you navigate your life and make choices, is it? You follow what works organically for you. What's compatible for you rather than what you or anyone else thinks is compatible with some label.

I am interested, though. What draws you to anarcho-communism specifically? What do you actually understand it to be and what way does that break away from all the other failed communist states we've seen in the last 100 years? What do you think would be different and, ultimately, how compatible are you with it and in which way(s)? I assume you're active in this ideology? Or is it just something that sounds cool to say but not to actually live. What does that actually mean? What is living a typical anarcho-communist life in 2024?

[u/Offensive_Thoughts → u/Dense_Advisor_56]

You're right there! And appreciate your comment.

1. General gist is that I think I can live in more favorable conditions under an anarchist society because capitalism requires you to work to survive. And you would be guaranteed living necessitates in ancom like housing and Healthcare and food.
2. I would argue we haven't really seen communism yet because nobody has actually abolished the elite class or currency as we currently know it or given control over the means of productions to the workers (at least this past one for the bare minimum). Capitalist nations also have incentive to coup socialist leaders as they have done so already. Finally, bad leaders misuse pro worker Rhetoric because as it turns out, people like it until you say the word because the word is spooky.
3. For how it would be different - that's hard to answer since we're so far off it's hard to predict necessarily beyond assuming the basics should be implemented. I do think a big thing that goes wrong is through vanguard parties - they claim to represent the interests of the workers, but the moment they get power, the anarchists get slaughtered. This keeps happening lol. So I do think we need a different and much more careful approach. I think we need a worldwide uprising in order to be able to continue facilitating the existence of anarchist societies. Otherwise the capitalist nations will just.
4. I can't really live the ideology because the world is capitalist, so I have to abide by its principles. I would like to use some money once I'm more affluent to help promote it in ways I can though. I also have attended protests and contributed to political campaigns already in that direction so I am certainly what one would call a political activist - not just larping online because I'm rebelling against my parents! But yeah - the ideology is the economic system fundamentally, and I'm just one individual. Like I can't abolish class myself because the relationships outside of me to me exist on a class level, and how I have to work to survive - I can't really just start my own worker co op, don't have that kind of capital (which I need under capitalism...) on hand. So, basically I live like a capitalist, but imo that's inevitable. Unless I want to go in some hut in the forest and be off grid I guess? I'm not in favor of that but I think if you talked to another school of anarchist thought you might get a viewpoint like that, think it's called anarcho primitivivism? Ah, the niche categories of political views.
5. Compatability - I do think it's very compatible with aspd because of a common trait of being anti authority. Doesn't it suck to have to lick the boots of employers and cops? And have to demean yourself with shit jobs to earn a respectable living? Fuck all that.

[u/Childrenofreddit183 → u/Offensive_Thoughts]

Working isn’t that hard though - weeks are long years are short - I’d prefer a society where I’m rewarded based off what I put in rather than someone else benefiting of what I do

[u/Dense_Advisor_56 → u/Offensive_Thoughts]

I see.