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Re:Solarpunk by bee_rider on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:38AM (#43238613)
Are they suggesting authoritarian communism or some sort of sci-fi anarchist communism? (which would be pretty pro-individual-liberty).

Open borders seem pretty pro-liberty as well. What’s more authoritarian than a government telling you there’s a magic invisible line on the ground and if you cross it, that’s crime?

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Re:Solarpunk by Wickedflickr on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:53AM (#43238710)
Solarpunk is firmly rooted in the anti-authoritarian camp. It's fundamentally inspired by Murray Bookchin's books on ecological anarchism.
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Re:Solarpunk by xvokcarts on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:14AM (#43238835)
It's not magic and it's not invisible. And if it's a government for the people, then it's the people that are being authoritarian. Maybe a high-liberties society can only prosper if it protects itself from the outside.
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Re:Solarpunk by sdenton4 on Monday March 03, 2025 @02:46AM (#43239275)
The birds don't seem much to care about our magic invisible lines...

Sorry, bud, it's just monkey stuff.

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Re:Solarpunk by xvokcarts on Monday March 03, 2025 @03:34AM (#43239629)
Are you saying that borders shouldn’t exist because they’re man made?
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Re:Solarpunk by AstralStorm on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:13AM (#43239886)
Borders are a thing, and birds do care when someone invades their nest.

What is not natural is nations.

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Re:Solarpunk by rcxdude on Monday March 03, 2025 @05:30AM (#43240376)
Nations are a social phenomenon and only sometimes line up with borders. States are what define borders (in fact it's part of the definition of a state).
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