And what's wrong with "If you don't like Amazon or what they are doing to their workers, write an article about it"?

I don't know if the person who wrote the article has ever shopped on Amazon. But in case they have/do they should stop shopping on amazon first and stop being a hypocrite.

I don't know either. Why does it matter?

> If you don't like Amazon or what they are doing to their workers, don't shop on Amazon. If you think working for Amazon is bad, don't work for Amazon.

Isn't warning people part of that?

Haven't we been warned enough by now?

And if you don't want to depend on an Amazon logistics job, don't neglect your education and self-motivation.

But this certainly is an unpopular opinion mostly due to survivor's guilt here.

And how would people know about these things if it weren't for these communist articles?

There have been hundreds such articles.

A real communist society spans the globe.

"If you don't like what Hitler is doing, just ignore he's murdering millions of people".

No thanks, i'd rather organize to have this guy killed to restore just a tiny little bit of justice on earth.

You obviously have a very privileged position where you don't NEED TO work for Amazon. Lots of people are in a different position and i hope you appreciate that.

Also, you obviously have no idea about the rich history of communism. Cuba and Venezuela can hardly be described as communist ; i'll refer to Emma Goldman on describing what is or isn't communism beyond the labels: https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/there_is_no_communism_in_ru...

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If you read the ideologies of those "communist" countries, they'll tell you communism is a stateless/classless society based on freedom as it was envisioned by Marx. I'm not using a personal definition to say they're not communist, i'm using their own.

According to their vocabulary, such states are dictatorships of the proletariat, which is supposedly a step towards communism, but is NOT communism.

So how many large scale experiments with communism have we had during the last 100 years, and how many of them have ended in success? It's starting to get pretty ridiculous to argue against that kind of body of evidence. I have full respect for anyone trying to question and improve our society and economic system, but to just wind back the clock to 1968, pretend like nothing happened and start ranting about communism? Sorry, that's just a bit too much

> So how many large scale experiments with communism have we had during the last 100 years

To my knowledge, only a handful. Workers self-organization in Catalonia during the Spanish revolution (1936-1937) is one, Community-oriented democracy in Chiapas (since 1994) and Rojava (since 2011) is another.

The other examples you think of (unless i'm mistaken) are precisely dictatorships of the proletariat that have nothing to do with communism and never intended to build power for the people.

> wind back the clock to 1968, pretend like nothing happened and start ranting about communism?

In 1968, the situation in regards to communism was already as it is today. The counter-revolutionary crimes of marxist-leninists and their State capitalism date from 1917, not after 1968. In 1917, the revolution was one aiming for people's liberation until Lenin, Trotsky and their cliques made a coup d'État and murdered everyone who disagreed with them.

> Sorry, that's just a bit too much

What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you?

> What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you?

Haha, no comment..

Because no argmuent?

Because it’s stupid to respond to someone that assumes the conclusion.

There is no such thing as “free food, free healthcare, and free education” until we have robots that literally do all of those things for us without us needing to work. Speaking like communism provides free things without discussing the real cost of that (forced labor, poor quality, etc) is like pitching a religion touting the benefits of heaven. Big shocker when nobody cares to engage in an argument.

I grew up in communism.