Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune

• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re making claims about a subject you are not an expert in, and refusing to read any literature on the subject.

  I unfortunately don’t have unlimited time, so I am forced to refuse to read books that are unlikely to be relevant.

  But also Capital is written that way to preempt arguments; it’s an academic work. His other works only suffer from 3 page long sentences that require significant contextual and historical knowledge of mid 1800s europe. Lenin is an easier place to start.

  Then maybe can you point to a work that does not assume a 1800s economy? Also, Marxism was tried already by the Bolsheviks. It failed terribly. If there were no improvements made since, what is the point? While I like the scientific method, I am certainly not willing to try the same thing again and see if just as many people die a second time.

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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I like the scientific method, I am certainly not willing to try the same thing again and see if just as many people die a second time.

    Capitalism kills far more people, by design. While the famine in the USSR was due to wide-spread drought, unlike the man-made famine that would kill millions in Bengal a few years later.

    I am interested in examining any modern plan to see if I can see issues in it or if it looks like it could work and is worth supporting.

    You cannot understand present society, let alone have a model that can predict future developments with any reliability if you don’t learn history.

    But if you want to understand economics, you’re gonna have to read a book on economics.

    Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism is good if you’re more interested in higher-level detail than Marx talking about linen.

    State and Revolution is more history and provides analysis of communist projects.

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