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    I’m pretty authoritarian-leftist, but I have some respect for libertarians after reading Scott Alexander. Do you know his blog?

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      3 days ago

      Also what kind of authoritarian leftist are you? The left landscape is kind of weak where I am so I am actually member of an authoritarian leftist party as they are the only ones locally I know whose comfortable carrying the label of revolutionary. Feels like grasping at straws but its something for now maybe.

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        I’m happy to hear stories like this, at least we can put our differences aside in some cases haha.

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      Can’t say I heard of him. I try focusing on reading anarchist theory atm. Halfway though conquest of bread at least. Though some personalities like Noam Chomsky and David Graeber are interesting.

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        I really don’t get anarchist theory. What is anarchism’s response to requirement for the regulation of certain things? Pollution, nuclear waste, existential threats (AI in n decades?) etc. How’s the conquest of bread?

        Regarding Scott Alexander, who I can’t be entirely sure is a libertarian but at least on occasion he claims to be, I liked his essay Meditations on Moloch.