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Is Communism good?
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Yes 375 66.25%
No 191 33.75%
Total: 523 votes
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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


communism is good, it failed in russia because of the servile asiatic nature of the slavs making despotism the natural result

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Shbobdb posted:

Anarcho-Communism generally has pretty close ideological ties with Primitive Communism.

In Year Zero, we all work as farmers.

i'm pretty sure the spanish anarchists weren't ecological anarcho-primitivists, no?

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Shbobdb posted:

I don't think too many people are arguing for anarcho-syndicalism anymore mostly because most people don't work in large factories anymore. And those that do work in industries amenable to syndicalism from a scale-perspective, those industries are driven by artificial demand (driven by sales/marketing as opposed to need) so they recognize that trying to set up a society based on those principles would deconstruct itself pretty quickly.

i'm not sure why syndicalism is restricted to manufacturing industry? any industry could be run by cooperatives

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Robert C Allen's Farm to Factory is a good economic history of the USSR and concludes its performace was actually not bad in comparative perspective, at least until the 1970s

icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Mar 27, 2017

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


hakimashou posted:

Denying, minimizing, or attempting to rationalize or justify the horrors of communism is denying, minimizing, or attempting to rationalize or justify the horrors of the holocaust, and for equally despicable motives.

nah

and re: china, india did not go communist and remained as poor as china, and until very recently (last ~20 years or so) failed to achieve the same growth as china post-78

same with russia btw, there was an article in the nyt the other day about what if kerensky had won, and i see not much reason to think a left-liberal government in a large poor eurasian country would have performed better than the same thing in india

icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Mar 27, 2017

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Fiction posted:

Nah that's actually the far right line on things.

ehhhh, "actually stalin and hitler were just as bad" is more the cold war liberal line. the far right line is just to pretend hitler never existed and/or has nothing to do with you, while stirring up pants on fire panic over the Commies, or these last few decades Muslims

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