• @ikidd
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    611 year ago

    Ah yes, that central tenet of communism, “compensation”.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      Yup, logically inconsistent, and if you confront them about it they tell you they are just being “le masters of irony”.

    • @PilferJynx
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      -281 year ago

      communism in theory is vastly superior to whatever we have now. But in practice it’s entirely inept for the human race. Maybe we should consider some sort of meritocracy that doesn’t rely on bottom up or top down extremes. Transparency and equal opportunity should be the core tenants

      • Rozaŭtuno
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        301 year ago

        communism in theory is vastly superior to whatever we have now. But in practice it’s entirely inept for the human race.

        I’m assuming that what you are referring to as ‘communism’ is actually Marxism-Leninism, they’'re different things. Yes, state socialism (Marxism) has proven that it can end badly, but it’s not the only way to implement socialism, others have proven or are proving they can work.

        Maybe we should consider some sort of meritocracy

        Real meritocracy doesn’t exist, not without real communism first. Each generation inherits a set of inequalities from the previous one, ignoring them to only focus on achievements becomes a tool for the powerful to justify their power (I received a small loan of a million dollar and did fine, that means I deserve living life on easy mode; meanwhile the poor guy that dropped out of school to pay the bills didn’t work hard enough to lift himself out of poverty).

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          Revolutionary Catalonia existed for weeks and really shouldn’t be used as an example of proving the success of anything. It simply wasn’t around long enough for if to do much.

          While the Kurdish groups are interesting they exist within a larger state that is taking on several roles of the state, such as maintaining the larger economy, so that the Kurds do not have to do so. Thus the Kurds aren’t proving the efficacy of their system independent of a capitalist system as it is in a capitalist nation-state.

          I don’t think you have good examples here.

          • Rozaŭtuno
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            121 year ago

            Revolutionary Catalonia existed for weeks

            More like 2-3 years. Yes, it’s still not much, but not mere weeks either. There were also other anarchist territories at the time and they all worked under socialist principles, none of them caused famines, deportations nor genocides; they don’t exist anymore because they got betrayed and hunted down by the soviets, which were authoritarian since day 1.

            While the Kurdish groups are interesting they exist within a larger state that is taking on several roles of the state

            The Syrian state? During a civil war? Like, what roles?

            And is it actually the state taking those roles? At the end of the day, all politicians do is sign papers, the world is shaped by the workers. It’s workers that build and run hospitals, railways etc. If workers under the Syrian state can make the electricity run, why would the same workers suddenly not be able to anymore “under” the kurds?

            I don’t think you have good examples here.

            How about the Zapatistas, then? They’re around since the 90s and they’re independent from the Mexican state.