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There are two varieties of communism you should understand. The dominant form of communism has been Marxist Leninist, with centralized power, vanguard parties,
by wahnfrieden 4y ago
There are two varieties of communism you should understand. The dominant form of communism has been Marxist Leninist, with centralized power, vanguard parties, authoritarian leadership, heavy bureaucracy etc
Another form that deserves attention is what has been called libertarian communism, a kind of anarchism. The goal is the same but without authoritarian power hierarchies. Marxist Leninist communism is an enemy to this. You can still have leadership and roles and rules, but done through other cooperative frameworks such as sociocracy (consent based, not consensus based)
- guerrilla 4y agoFor more information, https://libcom.org/article/libcom-introductory-guide https://libcom.org/article/libcom-introductory-guide
- simple-thoughts 4y agoThere’s an almost infinite number of strains of communism. But no matter what you pick, someone has to have the power to allocate resources. If it’s the individual that’s given power, as in some variants of anarchocommunism, there has to be strong external controls to prevent markets from re-emerging or you end up in ancapistan. My personal opinion is that Maoism takes capitalism the most realistically, and the cultural revolution is an example of the measures needed to prevent capitalism from re-emerging amoung the more competent laborers at the expense of the less competent. Anarcho communism is a bit of a joke because it assumes the ground reality does not have runaway cybernetic feedback loops, which have been demonstrated to exist in technocapital.