I don’t just mean outrage or regular rage, I mean shock that someone was to the left of “legal weed and free college but only for those that operate a successful business for 3 years in a disadvantaged community” takes.
I think federating took them by surprise, looking back. For about a week, those smug liberals were at a loss to even fathom what Hexbears were saying, and could only chant bullshit about how we’re Russian/Chinese bots.
Sure they still do that but they’ve slightly adapted to Hexbear presence.
Yes. I’m not sectarian to anarchists in general, but conquest of bread is basically a fantasy novel taking itself seriously. It isnt grounded in any research. If you like the ideas presented in conquest of bread, that’s fine, but it doesn’t actually go into how those ideas can be achieved, outside of mostly “people will just spontaneously do it”
CoB is based on economic research, not magic, but absolutely is utopian in basically eliding the problem of “how would this ever be established?”
My partner double checked a bunch of the numbers he cited and he plays very loosey goosey with it.