This is the problem with viewing the state as the primary nexus of oppression. Power people free of the state are totally willing to do awful things themselves without needing to form any kind of official government to do it.
Because it frames the civil war as a conflict primarily about the south breaking free from northern domination and liberating itself from an oppressor instead of what it actually was which was a war about ending slavery in the United States, which is objectively a good thing. It just shows Bakunin was not thinking very materially.
can you maybe expand on why this is a stupid take, thanks.
i think they’re saying that “The Confederacy was oppressed by the Tyrant Lincoln” is a very stupid take
When your moral compass is guided by “government doing things to other people”
Oppressing the oppressors is oppression
This is the problem with viewing the state as the primary nexus of oppression. Power people free of the state are totally willing to do awful things themselves without needing to form any kind of official government to do it.
Because it frames the civil war as a conflict primarily about the south breaking free from northern domination and liberating itself from an oppressor instead of what it actually was which was a war about ending slavery in the United States, which is objectively a good thing. It just shows Bakunin was not thinking very materially.
Well, to be more accurate it started as a war over the expansion of slavery into newly acquired territories. You know, bleeding Kansas and whatnot.