Comrade Spood

They’ve defederated from a bunch for no reason including lemmyunchained.net which is what I use. But I still see posts, why is that?

Even the father of capitalism thought landlords were parasites that only leeched off the economy

The Rojava Revolution in Syria, and the Zapatistas in Mexico seem to be promising. Not saying you should sign up for them or anything lol. But they are certainly worth looking at and learning from. Communism is experimental, and it’s important to look at attempts at it and learn from their mistakes and successes.

I have issue with Marx’s theories, particularly the idea we have to transition to communism. No government will freely give up its power, it’s too likely to become corrupted. Which is why I focus on anarchist theory. Granted Pannekoek and Luxemburg are Marxists, I find their takes on Marxism to be much better

Pyotor Kropotkin, Rudolf Rocker, Anton Pannekoek, Rosa Luxemburg, Errico Malatesta, and Abdullah Ocalan are the ones I’ve read.

I want a system that provides for the people who make it function. And I see that communism, if used in a centralized government, gives too much power to the politicians. It’s a breeding ground for corruption and totalitarianism.

So to me the logical answer to that is have as decentralized a government as possible. And I think, if given the chance, people can and will organize themselves without the need of managers, bosses, or politicians. But it has to be natural, the people have to choose it. The CNT-FAI in the context of the Spanish Civil War is a good example of this.

But I know it’s hard for people to view things beyond their own experiences. I started off as a trotskyist and slowly transitioned to more and more decentralized ideologies. It took me awhile till I finally understood the concept of anarchism and its arguments for how it could work. Because like many, I thought that without a government people would descend into chaos. What helped me was finding real world examples of anarchism in practice, like the CNT-FAI, Makhnovista, and Zapatistas (although they don’t consider themselves anarchist)

I’m an anarcho-communist. I know response to that is you don’t think it’d work on a country scale because people believe you need a government to organize a national system. Syndicalism would be the best, or council communism. Ultimately I think they too run too much of a risk of corruption and totalitarianism, hence why I’m an anarchist. But I do think they’d be less prone to it than any authoritarian communism or even the capitalist systems we have now due to their decentralized nature

Pretty much every revolution in history is that gamble. Plenty of times capitalist democracies have fallen to totalitarianism.

A tankie would be defending the soviet union. Tankie =/= communist. Tankie = authoritarian “communist”

They literally all copied the soviet union’s homework (Marxist-Leninism), there are other theories that haven’t had the chance to be tried. Like Council Communsim, Syndicalism, Libertarian Communism, Anarchism, etc. The failure of Marxist-Leninist countries proves Marxist-Leninism doesn’t work. It doesn’t prove that communism doesn’t work

Or we should start our own instance, but idk how to do that so someone else will need to figure that out lol

You should spread the word about lemmyunleashed.net its a really small instance that operates democratically. I’m the only ancom here (that I know of) but I think it’d be a great place for anarchists due to its direct democratic nature. And anarchists don’t really have a space of their own on lemmy that I know of

Except me, your friendly neighborhood anarcho-communist

I chose mine because it’s one of the very few that gives the users decision making power by allowing them to vote on decisions.

My daddy was miner and I’m a miner’s son. And I’ll stick with the union till every battle’s won

Except the Haymarket Affair, which is a massive reason why we have the 8hr day was back in 1886

Haymarket Affair, which was a massive contributor to why we have the 8hr work day was in 1886