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Re:About Liberland by icebraining on Sunday April 19, 2015 @05:29AM (#9402538)
Nonsense. A pure voluntaryist country would be a great place to start a commune. You'd just need some seed capital to buy the land, and then you could live in a moneyless society free from wage-labor and other capitalist practices.
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Re:About Liberland by borisreitman on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:20PM (#9421945)
It will not last, as kibbutzes (examples of such communes) did not last in Israel. Ayn Rand has illustrated why in her book "Atlas Shrugged" with the example of Starnesville.

The reason is that people who are doing better than others (and who are forced by the communist _ideology_ to share so that everyone is equal), would leave the commune.

That is why North Korea and USSR kept their citizens inside the Iron Wall border. It "worked" only by forcing the able to their knees.

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Re:About Liberland by PhasmaFelis on Monday April 20, 2015 @04:00AM (#9406699)
I see what you're trying to say, but at this point in history there is not a lot of intersection between "advocate for commune living" and "communist." Politics is an odd thing.
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