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  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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    21 hours ago

    the original compass meme is ridiculous, I chose to highlight who is pro dictatorship of capital and not doing anything to fundamentally change it, ie the top right quadrant.

    say what you like about the DPRK, but they are outside of that region on those terms

    • GrammarPolice@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      Like i said if that’s how you want to do it, who am i to argue with you?

      You’ve set the terms, and your classifications are internally consistent. All I’m highlighting is that it’s left-biased and therefore not objective

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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        15 hours ago

        Things can have a bias and still be objective, and the original one is not unbiased either, it smuggles in all sorts of assumptions.

        The fact that it has an entire quadrant for ancap make-believe should be all the indication you need that the whole thing has a right wing bias.

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          15 hours ago

          Things can have a bias and still be correct yes, but you have not provided a reason as to why your specific model is “correct”

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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            14 hours ago

            Mine pretty clearly distinguishes between people/groups who are in favor of reform vs revolution, as well as those who are in favor of a dictatorship of capital, or in favor of actively suppressing it. The original one does not really disambiguate that. It lumps all sort of people revolutionary or otherwise on ‘the left’, and includes an entire quadrant for ancap libertarians as if they are not authoritarian in their own way.

            Are you taking issue with the placement of reformists on the right?

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              12 hours ago

              I’m taking issue with your narrow definition of authoritarian. I don’t support the premise that authoritarian governments can exist only through the dictatorship of capital.

              If freedom of press, freedom of movement, etc are impeded, then there is no democracy. You’re an anarchist. You should agree with this

              • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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                8 hours ago

                ‘Democracy’ can mean liberal freedoms such as those, or it can mean participatory decision-making.

                My plot isn’t defining democracy as ‘free press’, it’s defining democracy structurally as distributed authority among many actors.

                A system can restrict certain freedoms and still be structurally decentralized, just as a system can guarantee civil liberties while keeping power concentrated. The point was more to clearly identify where authority resides, not evaluating whether a system meets liberal-democratic standards.

                The question of who is subject to authority is something obfuscated in the original meme template that I was aiming to correct.

              • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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                10 hours ago

                the original two axis map i think shows things on a vertical axis of how tolerant you are of state violence and the horizontal axis of how tolerant you are of proxy violence (but this is rooted in my view that money is representative of theft and is a tool of oppression). this new version kind of presumes that both kinds of violence are tightly coupled which is… hard to argue against, but it still flattens rather than complicates the chart when the problem with the original chart is it is a right-wing biased over simplification