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I thought Monson was an anarchist? Is he just pro-any fringe movement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism
I thought Monson was an anarchist? Is he just pro-any fringe movement?
I'm not defining it. Communism is a political moment that is grounded in history with a firmly established record. It doesn't require anyone's subjective definition.
The definition I'm going by is a stateless... ...private ownership is abolished.
The capitalists that own the machines will make everything they need for themselves and the rest will starve.I think automation will be the straw that breaks the capitalists back. When human labor becomes obsolete Capitalism cannot exist. It requires that people are constantly exchanging money for goods and services, but when people have no way to make money the central pillar of capitalism falls.
Farmers are going to forget how to farm?
Let me remove the fluff separating your intrinsically incompatible notions. That's why communism has ALWAYS resulted in authoritarianism and, ultimately, genocide.
The furthest we have ever got was socialism. Communism has not been attempted. You are attributing things to communism that have nothing to do with communism.
Communism is the herpes of political systems. Just keeps coming back and back, one execution away from utopia.
You are talking about the USSR just after the revolution where it was hit by 2 famines and a world war. Once the USSR stabilized standards of living were no different than western Europe or America.
I don't know much about the PRC so I won't comment on them.
Yugoslavia under Tito was a workers paradise... Everyone could get a job in a company owned by the workers by right. Yugoslavia was such a success story and Tito was so likeable that they were the only leftist nation to have normal relations with both the west and USSR.
Both the Paris commune and the Catalonia were embroiled in civil war.... yet they still we able to pay the groundwork for a successful society.
When people are tired of getting cucked by their boss, their representatives, their bank, and the multinational they will turn to real freedom and cut the private interests that pillage their labor. The Trumpster has pushed America the furthest left we have been since the early 1900s and its only a matter of time now until wealth and crowned heads are trampled by the huddled masses tired of getting ripped off by capitalist swine.
You cannot refute this.
The definition I'm going by is a stateless, classless, and currency free society where private ownership is abolished.
Lol, communism is just government fascists instead of banking fascists.
Open your mind to new ideas that don't come from the early 20th century.
Worker co-ops, crypto-currency, new ideas are the path forward.
What makes you think this is even possible? Even if the intentions were "good", communist revolutions have resulted in some of the greatest evils in the modern world.
I think it's possible because Capitalism is possible and that is much further away from human nature than communism.
I would say Capitalism, feudalism, and fascism have committed much greater evils than socialist nations. Just look at how many innocents the West has bombed in just the last 20 years. Look at how many people starve while we burn crops up keep the prices up.