Friday, February 16, 2018

"the only way to be free is to abolish all property"

gee. isn't that what jesus said?

no.

what jesus said is "sell everything you own, and follow me into poverty, for, in the end, you will have everything in the after life.". i understand that there has been much confused conflation of this point, and the marxists could get a little confusing in ways that the anarchists were generally more clear about, but what jesus said about property in conjunction with the afterlife is actually the literal opposite of marxism, which insisted that we not throw our property away in a use sense but abolish it in an ownership sense, and, most importantly, that we dispel with this absurd notion of the afterlife, which keeps us enslaved, in favour of the here and now.

i grasp that you can find me dozens of historically important "christian socialists", some of which generated movements (tommy douglas was one), but the actual reality, here, is that they just didn't understand the socialist part of it very well, confusing ideas that were hostile to religion for ideas that were friendly to it, perhaps due to translations that managed to miss the point.

if somebody tells you they want to abolish property in english, and you've never heard anybody say that before, they have to explain what they mean - otherwise you're likely to interpret it in the jesus freak (for no christian denominations are sufficient, here) kind of way.

so, that intersection is only in your head.

there is no common cause.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.