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An organization doesn't have to be centralized, just like communists weren't. This is a lazy argument.
by Saline9515 1mo ago
An organization doesn't have to be centralized, just like communists weren't. This is a lazy argument.
- compass_copium 1mo agoThere was a national Communist Party as well as several Cominterns. Communists are pretty big on democratic centralism.
- Saline9515 1mo ago"Several cominterns" - each country had its communist party, meaning a certain level of decentralization.
- compass_copium 1mo ago"Comintern" means "Communist International"--meant to guide the various national parties.
- iamnothere 1mo agoBesides, I don’t usually think of individual national governments as the proper level at which something qualifies as decentralized.
- Hizonner 1mo agoAn organization does have to have a clear set of shared plans, toward which it takes a program of coordinated action. That's what an organization is. It's about being organized. A bunch of random individuals who share some opinions, occasionally use similar tactics, may cooperate sporadically, and describe themselves using some term or gravitate toward certain symbols, is not an organization. And it's not clear that "antifa" even does most of those things. Nor are a bunch of small groups a single "organization" if they don't have some kind of ongoing, systemematic structure for coordinating their actions. I'm an atheist. That doesn't make atheism an organization.
- dgellow 1mo agoWhat do you think _soviet_ are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_(council) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_(council)
- iamnothere 1mo agoA unit of organization that was quickly made obsolete and purely symbolic during the era of Stalinism
- Saline9515 1mo ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1mo agoPlease don't keep commenting the way you did in this thread. It's not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. Please take a moment to read the guidelines, particularly these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Saline9515 1mo agoIt's a common point made by Marxists. https://marxist.com/socialism-in-one-country-how-stalin-abandoned-marxism.htm https://marxist.com/socialism-in-one-country-how-stalin-aban...
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- preg_match 1mo agoThe communists were very centralized. They held world governments. Even the American communists were centralized.