Posted by
glen ropella on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584826.html
On 01/17/2014 10:34 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Hypothesis is that it doesn't matter what the goal is. It could be the
> Organic Unpaved Urban Park Imperative, or Blue Eyes and Blond Hair, or
> whatever. While goals will be too complex or esoteric to become the
> critical mass for nationalistic ferver, is it `ok' to have the demes
> carrying on with ostensibly fascist psychology (reinforcing themselves
> to condemn the `problem' and invent the final solution), or should it be
> quashed at a local level too?
I think it depends on the 1) goal, 2) the scope of the locality, 3) the
flux across the deme boundaries. First, it would be just as "fascist"
to assert that fascism should always be quashed as it is to assert that
fascism is always good. Again, what matters is the extent to which the
ideals are embedded in a practical context ... the "openness".
(1) I can imagine some goals (e.g. preventing all and every instance of
rape) should be a bit "fascist" in order to facilitate freedom of
another type.
(2) Fascist control of, say, a tiny plot of land for a community garden
doesn't really matter. It's easy enough to avoid participating in that
garden. (E.g. we have 3 community gardens within a 2 mile radius,
easily walkable, even carrying buckets and shovels.) But fascist
control of _all_ community gardens is problematic.
(3) If you find yourself inside a fascist system, but are free to leave
that system for a neighboring system, then perhaps that's OK. This is
how I think about things like abortion bans. Banning abortion in any
entire _state_ is just plain wrong. It's simply too difficult to leave
the state unless you live on the border. But banning abortion in a
county ... particularly if there is a nearby county where the service is
available? Maybe. The problem, of course, lies in how inter-deme flow
is managed.
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⇒⇐ glen
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