Lexicus
Deity
Participate in your local communist party and labor union movementIf that was the best they could do, it's because they're all so corrupt that's the game. That's the critique. You got a solution?

Participate in your local communist party and labor union movementIf that was the best they could do, it's because they're all so corrupt that's the game. That's the critique. You got a solution?
How does law enforcement work under communism?
might make you a better copI don't think I would like shooting people that much.
In a communist revolution? I don't think I'd like getting shot any better.might make you a better cop
The short answer is no.Seriously, has there actually been a real communist government? I've read Das Kapital and other writings by Marx and Engels. They advocated for the abolition of states and governments, rejected capitalism in all forms and pushed for syndicates of laborers replace business. In my view, every government that has claimed to communist are in actuality brutal authoritarian states, i.e. "the People will now rule, and we are the People" kind of thing.
No one even knows how. I try asking here, and it's a deadend. Forcing the issue has always come with self defeating costs and relies on overt and upfront terrorism, which should be a clue. But progressive reforms until our world is radically different that something worthy emerges is pretty smart.
Then you should look into broadside ballads. Along with Luther, the original "posts." And often very politically engaged.
Take your communism talk to the communism containment thread. I"m sorry my outloud musing started this derail. This thread is for talking about Trump being indicated. Twice. So far.
The upper great plains, both US and Canada maintain a Hutterite population of ~50k.The short answer is no.
They get stuck in Socialist state, and tend to Authoritarian from there.
Communes don't work on smaller scale either. It could be argued the closest is Israeli Kibbutzim, and that's because they have a greater goal as a guide.
Well, true enough, there was graffiti in ancient Rome. That's a little shy of a post. And it's not a post. So I'm sticking with broadside ballads.Posting is much older than that. There was a time when you posted by chiselling the marble wall of the local temple.
Well that's the point, why would we even think they were talking capitalism? What emerged surely wasn't something theorized well in advance. Communism is quite obviously an intellectual reaction to capitalism, a feature of capitalism, and not an emergent system. But it informs progressive iteration, as does science and philosophy more generally.I like to imagine a group of posters in the 1550s who post by nailing scribbled papers to the door of their local church, arguing about how capitalism could happen and whether it was possible![]()
Well that's the point, why would we even think they were talking capitalism? What emerged surely wasn't something theorized well in advance. Communism is quite obviously an intellectual reaction to capitalism, a feature of capitalism, and not an emergent system. But it informs progressive iteration, as does science and philosophy more generally.
In the voice of one of the women that the killers in Fargo slept with: "More than usual even."*In Number Two voice* "Ahem... that also... already... has happened."
In the voice of one of the women that the killers in Fargo slept with: "More than usual even."
No, I'm not responsible for the thread derail. I commanded Lex not to answer my question unless I asked it in the Communism Quarantine thread.
Ideally. A lot of when you ask what people want will say "well, not x, amirite?!" and never visualize a better future. Without some kind of visualization, there's no goal. Without a goal, there's no leading, just following what already is. Which is the visions, goals, and leadings of others, which is itself most weighted by incentives to those rare few with the ability to act.Like I keep saying, communism basically just means stuff we think is good.