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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by dkuntz2 on Friday August 09, 2013 @11:09PM (#6189934)
No, because communities are small scale. History has proven that communities can exist in such a state. Societies need to have intent behind them. No society has ever existed without intent behind it.

Leninism worked, we know for a fact that it worked, at least until Stalin took over and made it something worse that ultimately didn't work.

Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by kbolino on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:33AM (#6190866)
History has proven no such thing. Every community has its leaders, and those leaders enjoy a privileged position. Indeed, Leninism is quite successful: at establishing a party of elites, whose job it is to convince everybody else that they're equal and to teach them to ignore the obvious contradictions. I did not say that "society [should] exist[] without intent behind it"; I said that intentions don't matter if the results contradict them.