Hey! Your comment cheered me up! I certainly agree that capitalism is the problem but whatever USSR did is not a solution. In fact, USSR had so many things wron

Hey! Your comment cheered me up! I certainly agree that capitalism is the problem but whatever USSR did is not a solution. In fact, USSR had so many things wrong, I can easily say capitalism is preferable to bastardized, authoritarian state capitalism that is Marxism-Leninism. Democratic confedaralism (ideas of Bookchin, Ocalan etc...) are refreshing and we should definitely read them, but I do not think they solve the fundamental problem. As a Marxist, I believe fundamental problem is capital, and without the people, _voluntarily_ (not dictated by bunch of 'revolutionaries' i.e. opportunists) rejecting their business owners to exploit them, nothing fundamental will be solved. And then, it should be ensured that the very conditions that created capital cannot be produced again. I wish more hackers read sociology, but unfortunately it is quite common among us to think sociology as an unimportant pseudoscience, without understanding any of it. When I discuss these issues with my friends, they quickly choose "but then Stalin killed XYZ million people" as their argument. He sure did, but that doesn't mean our world cannot be improved. And implications of this train of thought to our job (programming) are obvious too. Even though most programmers are rich, doesn't mean they're not exploited. Most programmers are forced by their companies to use certain softwares that surveil and spy on them. Some companies force their workers not to read GPL'd code _even in their free time_. Why do we accept this?