Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by rdtsc on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:27AM
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I am not confused I lived in a communist country.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by metaphorm on Thursday March 30, 2017 @11:40AM
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communism as an ideal seems impossible to implement in any way besides the authoritarian state-capitalism way that it has been implemented. that accomplishes the objectives of having a command economy with full employment (even if its monstrously inefficient), but it certainly doesn't come close to creating a just political order where the policies serve the people instead of the owners of the means of production (which is the state).
the Mondragon Corporation[1] is one of the few interesting experiments with a Communism-inspired system that does not immediately degenerate into authoritarian state-capitalism.
Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by laughingman2 on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:17AM
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>communism as an ideal seems impossible to implement in any way besides the authoritarian state-capitalism way that it has been implemented.
>the Mondragon Corporation[1] is one of the few interesting experiments with a Communism-inspired system that does not immediately degenerate into authoritarian state-capitalism.
So there is no logical inconsistency in what you believe?
Mondragon Corporation is a worker syndicate , which is not a "communism inspired system", but a system aspiring for communism. If worker ownership can work in Mondragon, then saying that "communism is impossible without authoritarianism" is flawed.