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1. Capitalism is a morally bereft system based exploitation, oppression, and alienation which needs to be destroyed.
With you mostly here but we would have to discuss the destroy part. The capitalists are far too powerful to be destroyed. And their power is growing. They can make people believe things that are demonstrably false. I won't again bring up the recent example which fascinates me but, suffice to say, they are having some success with the ultimate goal of thought control through technology. It's more likely that the system will buckle under the strain of the power of concentrated capital, a greed which cannot modulate itself and will not heel to an equilibrium. It has to accumulate, no matter the consequences for humanity. I'm afraid capitalism can only self destruct and the main helpful thing to do is to plan how to respond when it does.
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2. The United States is a fascist country, which used mass State sanctioned terror at home and abroad. For the sake of human rights, this rogue terrorist superpower needs to fall.
There are fascist elements to the U.S. Early in its history it took to fascism, which I don't consider a 20th century innovation as many do. I mean what's the real ideological difference between Nazis invading Russia for food stores and to obliterate communism and manifest destiny justifying a murderous Indian removal policy? Today when raucous crowds are chanting USA!USA!USA! they are channeling a fascist spirit, yelling for the blood of any other tribe in their path. It would seem like human rights would be greatly improved without the USA around. We tortured some folks. We spied on some folks. We give weapons and diplomatic cover to folks who torture and oppress and murder folks. Folks would be better off without our actions.
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3. Liberal democracy is a petty bourgeoise system that centralizes state power into the hands of the ruling class. Positive social-political change can only be made by revolution - in the form of a popular uprisings armed insurrection, or general strike.
The routes all those possibilities of change are fairly thoroughly cut off. It seems like you are following a pattern of competently identifying a feature of state capitalism and then indulging in fantasy, where you don't competently assume features of state capitalism, in response.
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4. The State should be abolished and be replaced by horizontal communities based on free association and mutual aid
Has this ever happened in history? Even Germany, which tried twice to take over the world and got untold millions of people killed, kept right on being a state called Germany. This is where you lose me totally. If you abolish the state some existing state will take you over. That's why states became so popular to where, now, everyone is doing it. I believe in freedom through the state, through democratic measures enforced throughout societies institutions including the workplace. We've this happen. There is a law in Germany saying you're employer cannot contact you after a specified time in the evening, like after your shift. That's how you get to freedom. What will happen in "horizontal communities based on free association and mutual aid" is like some character like Creflo Dollar will walk in and, in a few months or so, be hauling out anything of value while the settlement burns on the horizon.
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5. Money should be abolished, and resources freely and equally distributed among the population according to the precept 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'
When you advocate measures which would seem to immediately invite mass chaos and suffering no one will take you seriously. And they shouldn't. You don't just abolish practices which are highly ramified in the provision of basic needs. I think oil is destroying the planet, but if I had the option to snap my fingers and halt all oil production I would not take it because it would result in millions and millions of deaths.
Who is doing the distributing? In truth I do believe in a gradient on resource distribution, just based on some reasonable scale and I don't think the "free market" should decide it. I think a doctor should be paid more than a mailman. I like living in a society with dentists, and I think some reasonable incentives toward having diversity in careers are only practical. I suspect that a max ratio of like 10-1 would be sufficient, like no one make more than 10 times the lowest pay tier.
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6. Abolish borders! They are repressive tools that only serve the purpose of dividing the masses...
What if the people coming in don't want "horizontal communities based on free association and mutual aid"? Most immigrants to the US currently are extremely conservative and Christian fundamentalist. All the GOP base has to do is decide the newer immigrants are white enough for their tastes and they will have an instant majority. You suffer from a deficient philosophy which plagues the Left- you want everything open but that opens you to your ideological enemies. This kind of catch-22 is one which perhaps most Leftists never think their way past.