• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    Personal property exists under socialism and communism.

    Private property does not. A factory cannot be privately held under communism. Roads belong to the people. Workers own the farms.

    It’s not “our toothbrush, Comrade”

    But you also don’t need a totalitarian state to regulate every last thing. There can be independence for those who work and manage the resources; you can still create a restaurant and be paid a high wage for managing it, coming up with new and innovative dishes etc.

    The point is to remove the incentive to exploit for profit. It’s literally the root cause of every scam.

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      18 hours ago

      Communism without a dictatorship is yet to be seen at large scale. That would be interesting to compare.

      And you also dont have to go ALL IN on communism. You can absoluty choose sectors, that will never be private, and have private sectors that will be regulated by giving the workers more power and owners much less.

      There’s so many nuances.

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        13 hours ago

        Communism without a dictatorship is yet to be seen at large scale. That would be interesting to compare.

        It has actually been seen, and currently exists today. See the autonomous region of Rojava in Syria and the Zapatista territories in Mexico. Both were founded on anarchist principles.

        Additionally, by definition, communism cannot exist under a dictatorship. That’s why all of the “communist” dictatorships actually say they are socialist, and claim to be working towards a communist future, which is obviously bullshit. All nations founded on Marxist-Leninist principles inevitably become one-party dictatorships because they don’t go all in on communism. You must immediately abolish the state for communism to ever work.