• bluGill@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    This was not communism. This was carefully enforced fairness. People gave the spearmaker food in return for his efforts, and when he wasn’t making spears he was expected to fend for himself.

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          6 months ago

          Communism doesn’t have to have to be top-down. I honestly don’t believe that it ever can be, and that people who try to do things that way are either naive and doomed to failure or liars doing a great job manipulating everyone.

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            6 months ago

            I honestly don’t believe that it ever can be

            20th century Marxism polluted the word Communism. even Marx said he would not call himself a Marxist.

            The administration of things is still a state no matter how much they wish it wasn’t.

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        I think the key difference is that good behavior was facilitated and enforced by personal relationships. It’s not clear how this social arrangement could exist at larger scales.

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        6 months ago

        At had a few things that look similar, but it was nothing like what Marx imagined.