Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoPeople say that because it’s true. There is nowhere outside of a few scattered households that has ever been the platonic ideal of either communism or socialism.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Communism of a sort existed…in tribes.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d count those as the scattered households.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The basic idea is the same. No state needed. People function to help each other, etc.
Sorry, I’m a big David Graeber guy and he made a point to discuss this in some of his work.
I don’t know if you’re in software, but IMO communism is like agile. It works well at small scale, but once a community loses autonomy and division of labor becomes a thing…it’s over.
Socialism is an attempt at SAFE (scaled agile framework for enterprise). IMO it doesn’t really work, but I do like the idea of having markets where it makes sense, and having social programs that are not profit motivated…so basically Bernie’s position.