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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 6 months ago

But "socialism" is a scary word

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But "socialism" is a scary word

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 6 months ago
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  • NSRXN
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    7•6 months ago

    Whatever “ism” you use, there will always be people at the top who are exploiting people at the bottom.

    communism is classless. there is no top or bottom. same with anarchism.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes, and there’s a reason that those can’t exist in actual human communities of more than about a dozen people.

      • NSRXN
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        those can’t exist in actual human communities of more than about a dozen people.

        this is a lie.

        • @[email protected]
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          Ok, then disprove it. Show a counterexample.

          • NSRXN
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            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stateless_societies?wprov=sfla1

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            3•6 months ago

            the Paris commune

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              How did that end?

              • NSRXN
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                invaded by imperial france

                • @[email protected]
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                  After a whole 2 months. Clearly if one of your prime examples is something that couldn’t even last a quarter of a year, you don’t have a leg to stand on.

                  • NSRXN
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                    1•5 months ago

                    being invaded by a superpower is not an indictment of a societal structure

          • NSRXN
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            1•6 months ago

            exarcheia

            • @[email protected]
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              What about it?

              • NSRXN
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                1•6 months ago

                it’s an anarchist community of 55,000

                • @[email protected]
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                  1•5 months ago

                  And it’s not in a country?

                  • NSRXN
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                    2•5 months ago

                    more no true scotsmanning​

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            1•6 months ago

            the swamp maroons

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              How did that end?

              • NSRXN
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                2•6 months ago

                seems like you’re no true scotsmanning.

                say what you want to say

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                  I already said it.

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      Communism will have administrators, planners, managers, etc so it keeps some form of authority and hierarchy, to be clear, it’s just that these are a necessity for large-scale production and aren’t classes.

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        so there is no one “at the top” “exploiting people at the bottom”

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          Yes, technically there is a top and a bottom, like an upper level administrator and a lower level worker, but this is not a relationship of exploitation just like it isn’t your manager that exploits you under Capitalism, but the Business Owner(s).

          • NSRXN
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            1•6 months ago

            under communism, there is no exploitation

            • Cowbee [he/they]
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              Correct. I am a Communist, I am just offering technical clarification that hierarchy exists under Communism, but not exploitation.

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