Political Memes

💪💪💪 Decentralized planning

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Communism sounds great but it assumes that the people who rise to the top and run the government are going to share the wealth. Humans aren’t like that, we are too selfish. The ones who reach the top will always take more and give less to the ones at the bottom

Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that's true...

The response should not be to lean into that and make taking more and giving less the foundation of your society. Nearly every improvement in the organization of civilized societies for the past 3000 years has been based around increasing rigidity of redistribution of wealth and decentralization of power, not its concentration.

An imperfect solution is better than a decision which honestly claims to be no solution at all.

"Socialism won't solve our problems" is a legitimate argument, perhaps, against utopian types. But those of us looking to make life less shitty by 10%-20% by implementing a socialist system are less impressed by the appeal to imperfection.

I get what you're going for but communism isn't synonymous with Marxism-Leninism even if it eventually became the dominant ideology under the communist umbrella. I mean the term even predate Marx's birth

Some of the tendencies you see i attribute to vanguardism and somewhat to democratic centralism. Lenin proosed the need for a disciplined revolutionary party (the vanguard) which differs from marx's ideas that the working class will organize itself organically and eventually seize power which would be the dictatorship of the proletariat. How democratic the dictatorship of the proletariat would be differs from who you ask but essentally it refers to the rule of the working class as opposed to the bourgeoisie which does not necessarily translate to a dictatorship but rather who holds the dominant political power.

Marx did have a lot of beef with anarchists during the first international and how often he engaged with them in good faith is uncertain so take the following with a bit of salt. But i find it interesting that in his engagement with anarchists or specifically with a text Sergey Nechayev wrote he mockingly responded claiming it to be a display of crude and authoritarian form of communism (barracks communism) and critized it for what he claimed to proposing a very unaccountable system beholden to a overarching comitee. While he used this as an excuse for the expulsion of the anarchists in the first internationale, I find it very interesting how the man who the soviet union claims to take from even critized an anarchist for being authoritarian. In general i personally find very much interest in socialist ideologies that do not take from more authoritarian tendencies. To name a few, orthodox marxism, council communism, anarcho-communism or libertarianism (not the lassiez faire kind the older kind) I believe to find very much contrast in compared to to more authoriarian ideologies. BTW thanks for reading all that. I know that was kinda disproportinally long but its very interesting and does get complicated fast.

Communism sounds great but it assumes that the people who rise to the top and run the government are going to share the wealth.

You just described capitalism.

The idea with communism is that

1. there is no "top" to rise to
2. there is no "government" that we would recognize as such from our reference frame

which would make this impossible to happen.