fur the curious

i think the Party score is more just a reflection of the fact that i do not necessarily mind if a Party exists and tries to run for elections as a way of being able to measure its internal suppawt. i DO think if the One Big Union did amount to a successfully revolutionary force (i have no idea if it will ever get there tbh) it would have to start coming to terms with the fact that it would basically be doing the same thing a Party would be doing anayway

also i don’t actually have a strong opinion on Party vs Union vs anything else, i just wanna see some kind of socialist revolutionary force develop and i would hope it would be structured so as to be developing a mass line

also my stance on nationalism is more like “it really depends”. like a colonized nation using its national identity as a colonized people as a point of solidarity is Good, Actually. black nationalism is Good, Actually. whereas with 'murican nationalism, there is no defensible form of it whatsoever, being a settler-colonial state and all

indigenous american nationalism is almost certainly essential

@aescling “the government should be capable of assigning workers to workplaces” oh so you mean like the thing corporations already do regularly?

@aescling wow there are a lot of loaded terms in this quiz

does it assume i equate “socialist” with “necessarily good”? does it assume i equate “inefficient” with “necessarily bad”?

@aescling « Society is chiefly driven by individuals and ideas. » buddy those are two very different concepts

@aescling anyway

many of our numbers are very similar lol

@Lady yeah no kidding

@aescling i like how "partisan" and "central" are different axes like yes i am a party anarchist thank you for noticing

@aescling i mean i scored higher on centralization than decentralization but that's because the questions were bad

@aescling really a lot of focus on ideal states and value judgments not practical pragmatic solutions to existing problems and material conditions which tells me this quiz was not written by a marxist

@aescling i think a marxist would not write a quiz to determine your values and ideals but rather would write a quiz do determine what it is you think should be done

@Lady the most actually practical, what-do-you-want-to-DO test i’ve ever found turned out to have been written by an eventual self-described eco-fascist

@aescling i think the thing is that you can't write a quiz about what needs to be done unless you are willing to assert what material conditions are, which is beyond the limits of the imagined neutrality of most of these quiz authors

@Lady the other day the Algorithm suggested a youtube video that went “yeah so pretty much all political ideology tests are blatant idealism and that is why they are all bad” and then went on to do an elementary exposition on historical materialism and i mean, yeah

@aescling like there are real questions for leftism today but i think they are like:

- do you think the path to socialism will be straight or winding?

- do you think strategic alliances with the national-bourgeoisie are necessary or problematic?

- is it more important to prioritize sovereignty or conservation of necessary resources?

- can the law be used to fight capital?

- right now, are centralized or decentralized approaches to organizing more effective (regardless of what your ideal socialized state would look like)?

- can we accommodate people who are not labourers into our activism prior to the establishment of a socialist form of government, or is a labour focus necessary in order to seize power?

- should we target media or should we ignore media?

@Lady lmfao