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It’s actually not how every communist state ends up, for a sufficiently broad definition of communism that includes more anarchic organisation. The problem in a
by vertex-four 7y ago
It’s actually not how every communist state ends up, for a sufficiently broad definition of communism that includes more anarchic organisation. The problem in a lot of anarcho-communist states is that they were crushed by the Soviet Union and its allies.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> It’s actually not how every communist state ends up Do you have some counter examples?
- vertex-four 7y agoRevolutionary Catalonia was not perfect by a long shot, but didn’t have quite the same set of problems.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWeren’t thousands of people summarily executed in extrajudicial killings?
- skrebbel 7y agoSeems to me like it wasn't perfect by a long shot!
- claudeganon 7y agoSounds like the Western “frontier” of the United States.
- chrisseaton 7y agoThe difference is that nobody is using the US frontier as a scraping-the-barrel positive example!
- skrebbel 7y agoNeither did most communist states in the first three years of their existence.
- mcguire 7y agoI might suggest that 3 years during the Spanish Civil War is not really a good basis for how things "wind up".
- generatorguy 7y agohow bad is Cuba these days? I haven’t been since the 90s, but then the grocery stores has pretty limited stock, but i think access to healthcare and education was pretty good.