I feel like the distinction starts to get pretty blurry when “dealing with things internally without authorities” mostly just means covering stuff up and protecting predators, but yeah they don’t literally advertise to pedophiles

Covering thins like that up, is encouraging pedophiles. It let’s pedos know that it’s safe for them on the church.

…how could that possibly be your takeaway from what I said? I literally never even compared them to the Nazis, just said they weren’t socialist enough

No

I should have clarified that I’m not against socialism, just the hierarchy of states. We should instead pursue more egalitarian socialist expressions like social ecology or kinds of anarchy.

Seems to me that about once a generation people allow the states they live in (and corporations they work for) to concentrate power to a point where it cannot be overlooked anymore? Kinda feel like you already have an answer you want tho (apologies if that’s not the case).

Power not Greed. People don’t hoard wealth just to look at a pile of coins, they do it to control other people

And unfortunately, USSR falls smack damn on the barbarism side of that divide

(Hierarchical) Power in general is the root cause, not Capitalism in particular