https://lemmy.ml/comment/16430292

Brave take at the top of the screenshot which was then flooded by minions of the grad.

I tried to not post any Cowbee because it was too easy but you’re welcome to check out the thread and post your own findings.

  • @[email protected]
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    Well, socialism is supposed to be a transition to communism. The problem is that people suck, and none of the communist countries have ever managed to successfully make that transition.

    Turns out, when revolutionaries tear down the government and get handed all the power, they suddenly hate the idea of a stateless society.

    • kersploosh
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      Yeah, usually the people who are good at running a revolution are not the same people you want running the government after the revolution.

    • db0
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      What you call communism and what MLs call communism is usually different things. For them a state bureaucracy with wage labor below it is perfectly capable of being considered “stateless”. It’s quite absurd really.

      But ML methods never create a stable socialist system. They all inevitably collapse into Capitalism proper.

      • @[email protected]
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        515 hours ago

        I’ve heard this claim but only from critics. Is there somewhere I can find it from a ML writer? While I have heard some debate about what exactly stateless means from within anarchist thinkers, all were at least dramatically deconstructed compared to modern states. It’s hard to imagine how anyone could consider the idea of a stateless bureaucracy to be intellectually serious.

        • db0
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          @[email protected] believes so and usually can argue at length about it. You can see if they’re in the mood to elaborate.

    • NaibofTabr
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      414 hours ago

      The problem is that people suck

      Basically this. Socialism and communism both fall down because they’re brittle systems. All it takes is one corrupt, selfish individual to exploit the system, accumulate wealth, use it to buy power, and the system falls over.

      • Justas🇱🇹
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        14 hours ago

        It’s true for every system. Any system can be captured and taken advantage of. But the systems without built in central control are harder to take advantage of.