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Are there any examples of democratic communism?

• Rexxar 11y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz I don't know if this count as "communist" but they are two type of collective egalitarian democratic organisations that have got some success.
  • fixermark 11y ago
    How do they scale? Workable solutions need to allow seven billion people to inter-operate.
    • xorcist 11y ago
      No known system scales to seven billion people. (Just try to calculate what it would mean for every family in the world to buy a car.) Why would you think that a political or economical system needs to be globally scalable to be useful? Or that it would even be desirable? It would be reasonable to believe that a family, a business or a city should not be governed in the same way a country or a planet is.
      • fixermark 11y ago
        It's clear that it's not necessary for a system to scale globally to be useful. But a political system that scales globally is definitely desirable; an awful lot of human suffering is directly traceable to sub-optimal decisions made internationally because "those people" aren't "our people." There are big wins to be had for solving that problem.
  • digi_owl 11y ago
    Or the mother of all examples out of Spain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation What is interesting is that once you look into it, it is structured similarly to some of the conglomerates (keiretsus) of Japan. Basically they have their own bank etc, in part because external banks were not interested in doing business with them.