I remember when I joined here that tchncs did not federate with Lemmygrad. Is there a reason why it is now? I don’t think it’s a good instance, since it full of (roleplaying) communists hating on the western world… and I wouldn’t want that shit in my “All” feed. Thank you.

  • @Filthmontane
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    31 year ago

    I mean, you don’t have to read a book. You could just read the Internet. But you do have to read something. It really all just boils down to whether or not you think things would be better if we had a democratic workplace instead of a workplace dictatorship. If you think the workers should share the profits instead of a couple people that don’t actually do any work.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      Yeah, I don’t think many marxists, socialists, communists, anarcho-communists etc actually believe in democracy. Democratising work in (m)any meaning of democracy is too slow to solve many problems, I, people, humans, we have. Reading Kapital, Bread or Questions won’t open the doors of occupation, be it the cell, flat or workplace door - it has no NFC.

      • @Filthmontane
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        31 year ago

        Then you fundamentally misunderstand leftists. Leftists want the democratization of the economy. Plain and simple.

    • Karyoplasma
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      -21 year ago

      The reason why communism is unstable and never works out long-term is because it relies on kindness and giving back to the community and the problem is that money-hungry sociopaths can easily exploit that.

      It’s just an utopia. Sadly.

      • @Not_mikey
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        61 year ago

        That’s because our culture and society says it’s fine to be a money-hungry sociopath. Many pre-agricultural societies were vaguely communist and shared resources. Back then if you hoarded resources you’d be socially ostracized, lose social standing and all the benefits of being in a tribe. Nowadays we put them on the front of a magazine and exalt them for screwing over their fellow man.

      • @Filthmontane
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        21 year ago

        It seems to work quite well in Star Trek. It is the closest thing to a real world application of Communism. The closest thing to real Communism was the Paris Commune. Lenin created the idea of The Dictatorship of the Proletariat as a means to rapidly develop and educate a country in turmoil with the intention of building towards a socialist society. The latter was not successful. A Communist revolution has never occurred in a developed country. Communism requires material abundance and technologic advancement. Ya know, like Star Trek.