I'd think you'd care for practical reasons, at least. Has there ever been an instance of severe persecution of communists without lumping in anarchists as well? I'm seriously asking; I just know that the Red Scare targeted anarchists just as much as communists, but idk if that changed at all over the course of the century.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd think that in the practical sphere it's irrelevant what a philosopher says as there's always going to be, say, a sister, which will bend the philosophy to whatever opinion the anti-intellectuals in charge like to hear.

The solution is to have a populace informed enough to not put such people in charge.

As to our own Red Scare over here: Yes the Radikalenerlass also targeted Anarchists but it was abolished before I started shool, or the GDR collapsed. What gets you in trouble nowadays is (as the constitution intended from the start) trying to undermine the free and democratic basic order and I don't do that. I want to radically expand it, in a Kantean sense my politics are those which make it a natural law, see homeostasis.