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Maybe I didn't put it explicitely into the previous comment, but in my understanding there is only one system (power pyramid) and different flavors of marketing
by erikb 8y ago
Maybe I didn't put it explicitely into the previous comment, but in my understanding there is only one system (power pyramid) and different flavors of marketing attached around it. "We are a transparent tech company that shares all info with everybody" (Google? Red Hat?) is just as much B.s. in my eyes as "Socialism" or "Capitalism". Of course the people up the food chain control more of the "common goods". Is there a single communist country in human history to this date, that doesn't have this same setup?
If you want to claim that it doesn't fulfill Marxist ideology, well yes. But not even communists believe that. The world that fulfills this true common shared ownership is called communism, and from a communist perspective we've never seen that. Socialist countries where an experiment at triggering human evolution to achieve communism. It failed. But if we look at Star Trek for instance, there they have achieved commmunism. No need for money, not much need for ownership, everybody works to improve oneself and further the community. That's communism according to communist, and yes that's different from how capitalist propaganda labels communism.
I'm not part of that group of communists though. I have a more fatalistic/pessimistic approach and think we are not really able to develop any further. We apply different labels, but in the end it's always the power pyramid that succeeds, because we can't overcome our limitations.