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Communism would be dispossessing all the farmers and store of everything they have, assigning workers to these industries and deciding what they should plant, p
by michaelmrose 2y ago
Communism would be dispossessing all the farmers and store of everything they have, assigning workers to these industries and deciding what they should plant, package, and provide and how the wares ought to be distributed to society.
It doesn't help discussion to mislabel every form of government intervention as communism.
It frames things every functional government does as somehow a slippery slide towards the USSR.
- _heimdall 2y agoThat's one very specific implementation of communism. Price controls, central planners allocating resources, even universal basic income are all ideas that are very much inline with Marxism.