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I do have to admit I respect anyone who can inhabit such a radical idea as abolishing private property. If I felt there was a path towards that direction that d
by erulabs 7y ago
I do have to admit I respect anyone who can inhabit such a radical idea as abolishing private property. If I felt there was a path towards that direction that didn’t involve violent revolution and a whole lot of murder - I might consider it. Bolshevik philosophy starts interesting but turns too brutal and violent too quickly. All that said your reply is the most intellectually legitimate reply to what I posted. HN isn’t the place though. I’ve always thought if the worlds socialists and libertarians hung out for a while we’d all get along far more than the world wants us to know <3
- jahaja 7y agoThanks. I would like to clarify though that although I do see myself as a socialist, I'm not at all a bolshevik (or any variety of Marxist-Leninism). Because I agree with you on the inevitable degeneration into authoritarianism and/or state-capitalism. The British philosopher, and socialist, Bertrand Russell visited Russia just a few years after the revolution and summarized his thoughts regarding the bolsheviks in his "The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism"[0], 1920, in which he basically summarizes his thoughts like this: "I am compelled to reject Bolshevism for two reasons: First, because the price mankind must pay to achieve Communism by Bolshevik methods is too terrible; and secondly because, even after paying the price, I do not believe the result would be what the Bolsheviks profess to desire." It's an interesting historical document of a turbulent time, and not socialist theory heavy, so recommended reading for the curious. It's also an example of how socialism is a broad topic, both then and now, not just another word for Bolshevism. [0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17350/pg17350.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17350/pg17350.txt