Can anyone succinctly explain communism? Everything I’ve read in the past said that the state owns the means of production and in practice (in real life) that seems to be the reality. However I encountered a random idiot on the Internet that claimed in communism, there is no state and it is a stateless society. I immediately rejected this idea because it was counter to what I knew about communism irl. In searching using these keywords, I came across the ideas that in communism, it does strive to be a stateless society. So which one is it? If it’s supposed to be a stateless society, why are all real-life forms of communism authoritarian in nature?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 days ago

    I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber for more details on societal structures of the past

    • @[email protected]
      1•5 days ago

      But which ones? Were they religious communities? Hunter gatherers such that centralization was less advantageous?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•4 days ago

        Some examples in the book include the Wendat people and Teotihuacan. You can also check out the book’s wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything.

        One of the core conclusions of the book that you may find interesting (quote from the wiki):

        Based on their accumulated discussions, the authors conclude by proposing a reframing of the central questions of human history. Instead of the origins of inequality, they suggest that our central dilemma is the question of how modern societies have lost the qualities of flexibility and political creativity that were once more common.