• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one
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    I think the framing is off on that question. Communism is not a political system, its an economic one. Tankies are pro authoritarian, but just so happen to have a communist economic theory.

    I believe in Democratic communism, preferably with a much smaller government.

    Revolutions that are anti authoritarian is great.

    The problem is authoritarianism, not communism

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        This distinction is pure capitalist ide

        Well that’s unlikely since I don’t even believe in currency.

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          How is human society organized? What do humans do? They create things and they consume things. What is politics? It is deciding who in a society resources are taken from and what they applied to.

          Why do you draw a line between these things? Especially as a socialist who presumably wants to bring democracy to the workplace?

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          But you live in a world that does, and therefore you are forced to relate to it wether or not you believe in it.
          It does not matter what you believe in, what.matters is the material reality in which we all exist

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      Communism is most definitely a political system as it has an inherent system of power relations, representation of workers, ownership of the means of production by the workers themselves, and distribution of decisions among the people until the state can be dissolved. Internationalism is a huge part of communism as is real politik, historical materialism, and other political approaches.

      What I don’t understand is what you mean by authoritarian? Do you mean a literal dictatorship like in Latin America? I don’t know if a single communist country that has not had better representation than the USA as far as voting goes. I guess maybe the Khmer Rouge (I don’t know anything beyond Wikipedia for that one)?

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        authoritarianism is when you do things and get results, the more results you get the more authoritarian it is

        true democracy is when so much nothing is happening that everyone is stochastically dissolving into elementary particles like it’s the heat death of the universe

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      I appreciate the attempt to engage in discussion about it, but it is an interesting position. Do you not think your position directly competes with assertions from The Communist Manifesto, or State and Revolution, or most communist texts?