ComradeSpood

@ComradeSpood@lemmyunchained.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love purple.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Green is science, yellow is history, blue is English, math is red

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one really understands our struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the father of caputalusm thought landlords were parasites that only leeched off the economy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McCarthies everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Rojava Revolution in Syria, and the Zapatistas in Mexico seem to be promising. Not saying you should sign up for them or anything lol. But they are certainly worth looking at and learning from. Communism is experimental, and it’s important to look at attempts at it and learn from their mistakes and successes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McCarthies everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a system that provides for the people who make it function. And I see that communism, if used in a centralized government, gives too much power to the politicians. It’s a breeding ground for corruption and totalitarianism.

  So to me the logical answer to that is have as decentralized a government as possible. And I think, if given the chance, people can and will organize themselves without the need of managers, bosses, or politicians. But it has to be natural, the people have to choose it. The CNT-FAI in the context of the Spanish Civil War is a good example of this.

  But I know it’s hard for people to view things beyond their own experiences. I started off as a trotskyist and slowly transitioned to more and more decentralized ideologies. It took me awhile till I finally understood the concept of anarchism and its arguments for how it could work. Because like many, I thought that without a government people would descend into chaos. What helped me was finding real world examples of anarchism in practice, like the CNT-FAI, Makhnovista, and Zapatistas (although they don’t consider themselves anarchist)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McCarthies everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an anarcho-communist. I know response to that is you don’t think it’d work on a country scale because people believe you need a government to organize a national system. Syndicalism would be the best, or council communism. Ultimately I think they too run too much of a risk of corruption and totalitarianism, hence why I’m an anarchist. But I do think they’d be less prone to it than any authoritarian communism or even the capitalist systems we have now due to their decentralized nature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McCarthies everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much every revolution in history is that gamble. Plenty of times capitalist democracies have fallen to totalitarianism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McCarthies everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A tankie would be defending the soviet union. Tankie =/= communist. Tankie = authoritarian communist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McCarthies everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally all copied the soviet union’s homework (Marxist-Leninism), there are other theories that haven’t had the chance to be tried. Like Council Communsim, Syndicalism, Libertarian Communism, Anarchism, etc. The failure of Marxist-Leninist countries proves Marxist-Leninism doesn’t work. It doesn’t prove that communism doesn’t work