i am fascinated by the way that sharrans are portrayed like the conservative boogeyman of communism. a bunch of people duped into working against their own self-interest, in the earnest belief that they are toppling injustice wherever it may be found, but ultimately functioning as agents of disorder and chaos
@aescling the sharrans literally worship chaos and disorder??
@Lady yes that’s kind of what i’m getting at
@Lady some do (they do not have a coherent idea of what communism is)
@Lady anyway to be more clear what i mean is that sharrans feel like the conservative imagination of what anarchism is but i feel like most conservatives don’t even know what anarchism is
@Lady like, i feel they do not often recognize them as meaningfully distinguishable from the commies
@aescling in fairness neither do some anarchists
@aescling i personally think it’d be a stronger argument to say the sharran/selunite conflict is akin to the anarchist/communist divide