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Communalization is not the same as collectivization. When individual cells only own what's internal to them, this perpetuates petite-bourgeois structures, not collectivized production and distribution across all of society. I was an anarchist prior to becoming a Marxist-Leninist, I know what I'm talking about regarding the driving distinction.
Secondly, socialist countries are going strong, and none of them are imperialist. They of course have class distinctions, the elimination of class permanently is a global phenomenon in the context of an international market. Marxism doesn't posit states will "give-up" authority, or that the masses don't already have the authority in socialism, but that state structures will wither. Hierarchy very much persists in communism, as administration is a necessity for large scale production and distribution, but what we recognize as the state does not.
I've read anarchist theory, please explain how communalist cells interconnected in a decentralized fashion is the same as one system with collectivized production and distribution. I'm not "drunk in authoritarianism," I just understand that hierarchy isn't axiomatically bad, and that in many cases it exists by necessity.
Trying to make a smartphone without hierarchy is a recipe for rampant deaths in mining accidents, missed shipping times for raw materials, shoddy fabrication of semiconductors, disasters at air and sea, and huge differences in material wealth for the different parts of the supply and production chain leading to class distinctions and a new state.
Communes/cooperatives are neat in the context of capitalism and socialism in certain applications, but aren't the basis of communist society, socialized/collectivized production is, because only that forms the basis of classless society.
You haven't really responded to my points, just insulted me or told me I'm wrong without elaborating on why. This is extremely unconvincing.
You can read it all you want but you authoritarians don't understand shit that isn't hierarchy. I'm not about to open fucking theory books on a damn memes sub. God you fucking .ml's are insufferable
I understand plenty, you can drop your wholly unearned smug superiority complex.
Ah yes, the communist brain must simply be incapable of understanding anarchist ideas. That's the only possible explanation for any disagreements with it.