communism. you seem to be under the impression that the only form of it is the sort the USSR was under, which sucked
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Replying to @atomicthumbs @Pinboard
that would be marxism-leninism, but it degenerated into "not really communism anymore" i.e. state capitalism pretty quick
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have you read the Gulag Archipelago, or Kolakowski’s history of Marxism?
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i am under-studied. perhaps you know more than I do and I misinterpreted your tweets. because fuck 140 characters :p
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the critique they offer of Communism is that it is inherently unachievable, and will fail in the ways seen. It’s good writing
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I will check it out; opposing viewpoints are good. in any case I consider myself a demsoc now and a communalist later :)
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know your history. If you want it to succeed, learn how it failed so badly from people who lived through that
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no gulags, no vanguard party, no famines, no secret police, etc.
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nobody wanted that communism, but everybody got it. Worth going into the weeds about why that happened
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Replying to @Pinboard
my ideal system (communalism) avoids that by using a completely different structure of municipal-based government
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