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They were sounding good until they compared it to the "not real communism" thing. What people call "communist" countries were, by definition, not communist. The
by BillyTheMage 3y ago
They were sounding good until they compared it to the "not real communism" thing. What people call "communist" countries were, by definition, not communist. They themselves never claimed to have achieved communism.
The reason it wasn't communism, or even socialism at all, was the fact that *the workers did not own the means of production*. Whether or not you like the idea of communism or not, it's dishonest to call the totalitarian states of the 20th century "communist". They were authoritarian state-capitalists.
This leads me to believe that the author of this article maybe actually didn't understand agile as much as they thought they did.
- ProcNetDev 3y agoMaybe there is something inherently wrong with a system of centralized ownership if it always seems to get taken over by authoritians?
- BillyTheMage 3y agoCentralized ownership is not a requirement of communism, but of Marxism-Leninism. Workers can own the means of production decentrally.
- TaurenHunter 3y agoThe author seems to be from Budapest. Looking at the wikipedia I see "In 1949, Hungary was declared a communist People's Republic (People's Republic of Hungary). ... After Nagy had declared that Hungary was to leave the Warsaw Pact and become neutral, Soviet tanks and troops entered the country to crush the revolt. Fighting continued until mid November, leaving more than 3000 dead." So arguably, he knows better about how it is living under that kind of regime than most of people.
- rusticpenn 3y agoWell that sounds exactly like the agile we had in the last 2 companies I worked at.
- sickofparadox 3y agoI dare you to go back in time and tell the leader of a soviet bloc country that they aren't doing "real communism". Something tells me you will be met with significant "pushback".
- screye 3y agoAny attempt at real communism is real communism. Lenin Stalin and Mao were some of the best read scholars of their era who made genuine efforts to make communism happen. They couldn't, not because they did not understand communism, but because communism didn't understand the world it was trying to be a solution for. Humans are hedonistic and insecure beings for whom status games lie at the core of their existence. In the absence of inequality, there are no humans. For the potential difference is what makes sure the blood, sweat and tears flow in a certain direction. _____ There in lies a great equivalence between fans of communism and agile. You cannot create a productivity system for knowledge work if you do not understand knowledge work. Agile starts with trying to solve a problem that it assumes exists, without ever questioning if its central assumptions have any validity at all.