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So why exactly are you in a SolarPunk community if you don't believe in it?
Well, because it has some interesting aspects and I'm a curious person. Also, I don't think solarpunk is necessarily socialist. For example universalist Marxists, with which I have many symphasizes, would (imo) come up with the same conclusion that liberal democracy is the best system currently, because it allows for the co-existence of a broad range of different lifestyles and forms of communities - if we allow them to grow and not let the market decide everything for us.
From a political stance, I would call myself a traditional liberalist, like in the tradition of the enlightenment. This means I'm against a global socialist system, because I don't think it can work and allow this diversity of lifestyles. What we share I think is that I'm also against neo-liberalism. But if one of the many decentralized communities that are part of MY future of society, decides for example to distribute their goods with big data - I'm all for that. I'm curious to see how things will develop here even though I wouldn't like join a solarpunk commune or anything.