Yes, not at large scales. There are too many people around nowadays for something like this to work.
Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoSo essentially, communism is defined as something that cannot exist in reality.
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Human society was communist for over a hundred thousand years before the idea of empires and cities came along. Indigenous communities lived under what we would call communism in the modern day until feudalism.
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Some communities, I’d say. I’m pretty sure the systems in indigenous communities were diverse (and they still are, at many places).
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, ancient tribes were not soviets.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
They sort of were. They just didn’t have a word for it.