• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    left-communists

    Is there such a thing as right-communists?

    Also I’m guessing your friend didn’t originally acquire the Prius by bringing honey to the Toyota dealership. That’s where this kind of thing breaks down.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Left-communism refers to philosophies such an anarchism, council communism, platformism, and other left wing thoughts that do not advocate for an all encompassing and powerful worker’s state, and instead believe in achieving a communist system (stateless, classless, moneyless) through means of democracy, consensus, councils, or other means that put the actual people impacted by a decision in charge, or at least in the conversation, of making the decision.

      And of course not. Because we do not live in a society where that happens. The topic is not “does gift economy work” or “do we live in a gift economy.” The topic was explaining a micro-economy that existed around mutual aid and gift economics.

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      3 days ago

      It’s not lol. The issue isn’t that barter centric systems fall apart with complex products/services. The blame as always rest with mega corps, investors, and the most insatiably greedy cunts that we always hand power and leniency to.

      • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        Anarchist systems fall apart at scale. Because they rely on social reputation to keep people well behaved. And social reputation doesn’t work if you want factories and electronics and other things that require the collaboration of tens of thousands of workers around the globe.

    • Xeno@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      I once heard of something called anarcho-monarchism, so nothing would surprise me at this point.