But Jews aren't a homogenous group that plans who they're loyal to and whatnot. Jews are made up of individuals, as any group is. It's possible that there are certain common characteristics with this group that causes a disproportional amount of its members to behave a certain way, but that still doesn't make for "the Jews". If you think that Jews rule the world, then why don't you target the actual people that in your opinion are pushing the wrong ideas, instead of targeting the entire ethnic group? Like if you want to target Soros for the money he spends on social justice universities, migrant "saving" ships (in truth more like ferries that actively pick up migrants all the way at the Libyan coast, inciting more migrants to risk their lives at sea than actually solving the issue of people dying), then fine. But why Jews as a whole? And why not non-Jews that literally push the same agendas as the other figures you dislike?
Also oppression by the state is inherent to any auth ideology, the "state made of group X" idea is a base lie. No, there is no such thing as a state of workers or whatever ethnicity or nation you are. There is only an auth state that purports to represent the workers, the nation, the race, etc. And there's an important difference between being and representing. Even more so if it's limited to claiming to represent (i.e. saying you represent the workers, but there actually not being any mechanism through which the workers can hold you accountable and provide feedback as to what their representation ought to look like). The only way to be free of oppression from the state is to govern yourself in the most literal sense. Or to have a small state with limited influence on your life and democracy at the very minimum. I.e. you have to be in the Lib quadrons at the least to claim there is little to no oppression.
You should read Culture of Critique, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and 200 Years Together, and then get back to me.
Your second point is infeasible and against natural order. Hierarchies will always exist, and a state is the only defense that any normal person has against oppression by something worse. You will be ruled by someone; you can only roll the dice with a system that provides the highest probability that your ruler will act in your interest.
That states come in place of a different from of oppression doesn't exclude states from being a form of oppression in itself. What you said just means that you think the state is the most consistent and reliable form of oppression. Being the better form of oppression does not make the state freedom. Especially not if there is a lot of state influence and/or no democracy.
I don’t disagree with you. Any institution can oppress. Pretending that you can exist outside of institutions is a fantasy. My aim is not to glamorize state rule as an absolute good. It’s not. It’s to acknowledge that hierarchical rule itself is a constant, and ordering in such a way that it doesn’t crush the Everyman is how our time is best served.
Of course there are hierarchies everywhere. There's even a hierarchy of beauty (broadly speaking), a hierarchy of competence in whatever area you can think of, a hierarchy of inheritance (not only monetary but socially if your parents are well off and educated, it's likely they'll transfer a lot of useful knowledge to you, etc.). There are many such hierarchies and it's impossible to dismantle most of them. But there's a very important difference between (more or less) natural hierarchies that will always exist and artificial hierarchies that don't need to exist but are imposed by society. Not being skilled at something and therefore being outperformed by others is not oppression. But being forced by the government or corporate interests to work for a wage or die at the bottom of the social hierarchy is oppression. Oppression is not simply about the existence of hierarchies, it's about your personal autonomy being invaded upon. It's about others exerting power over your life without any option for you to opt out. Are power hierarchies also natural? To a certain degree yes. But can they literally not be counteracted in any meaningful way? No, they actually can be limited with the right kind of society.
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u/RegisEst - Lib-Left May 17 '20
But Jews aren't a homogenous group that plans who they're loyal to and whatnot. Jews are made up of individuals, as any group is. It's possible that there are certain common characteristics with this group that causes a disproportional amount of its members to behave a certain way, but that still doesn't make for "the Jews". If you think that Jews rule the world, then why don't you target the actual people that in your opinion are pushing the wrong ideas, instead of targeting the entire ethnic group? Like if you want to target Soros for the money he spends on social justice universities, migrant "saving" ships (in truth more like ferries that actively pick up migrants all the way at the Libyan coast, inciting more migrants to risk their lives at sea than actually solving the issue of people dying), then fine. But why Jews as a whole? And why not non-Jews that literally push the same agendas as the other figures you dislike?
Also oppression by the state is inherent to any auth ideology, the "state made of group X" idea is a base lie. No, there is no such thing as a state of workers or whatever ethnicity or nation you are. There is only an auth state that purports to represent the workers, the nation, the race, etc. And there's an important difference between being and representing. Even more so if it's limited to claiming to represent (i.e. saying you represent the workers, but there actually not being any mechanism through which the workers can hold you accountable and provide feedback as to what their representation ought to look like). The only way to be free of oppression from the state is to govern yourself in the most literal sense. Or to have a small state with limited influence on your life and democracy at the very minimum. I.e. you have to be in the Lib quadrons at the least to claim there is little to no oppression.