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Viadescioisc Veganism

1. Definition, Sacred Existence, and the unity of care Viadescioisc Veganism is the ethical, spiritual, ecological, and political practice of cultivating right relation through the continuing reduction of avoidable harm, exploitation, domination, and taking of life. It brings Viadescioism’s sacred understanding of existence into Viadescioisc Communalism’s commitments to shared provision, democratic stewardship, and liberation. It is philosophical in commitment, reducetarian […]

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The People Cannot Be Replaced

A Viadescioisc treatise on authoritarian socialism, technological abundance, and the liberatory society By Vaarla Ona 1. Party Rule Has No Claim to Socialism We refuse to concede socialism to Marxist-Leninist rule. Socialism requires the people to possess effective control over the productive resources and public institutions through which they live. A party that reserves the final authority for itself has […]

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A Treatise on Ethical Seriousness and the Work of Liberation

Our opposition to lifestylism, performativism, purity culture, and political unseriousness, and the constructive meaning of our post-leftism. By Vaarla Ona Our frustration: What exhausts us is the expectation that good intentions should settle questions about what people actually support. Someone can be compassionate in their immediate relationships while defending political arrangements that expose others to exploitation, exclusion, or violence. Their […]

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Social-revolutionary

I have been thinking a lot about how genuinely social-revolutionary communalism, libertarian municipalism, and democratic confederalism actually are. They do not just ask for a kinder version of the present world. They ask us to imagine a society that exists after capitalism, after domination, after the centralized state, after hierarchy has stopped being treated as the natural structure of human […]

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Tech anxiety, AI art, and art

This one’s going to be unpopular but we need to say something that many people are too anxious, too angry, or too captured by capitalist fear to say clearly: AI art training is not automatically stealing. Learning from existing work is part of how art has always lived. No artist emerges from nothing. Culture is not born from sealed private […]

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Why I Am a Communalist: Beyond Authoritarian and Libertarian Leftism

The true path forward for human liberation and ecological survival does not lie in authoritarian state socialism, nor in an unchecked libertarian individualism. It lies in building deeply democratic, cooperative, ecological communities—a vision best embodied in communalism, as advanced by Murray Bookchin. This is the most radical and genuinely progressive form of leftism, because it centers people, community, and the […]