this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
371 points (82.1% liked)
Memes
45619 readers
939 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Authoritarianism is an empty label since it's used against one's opposing ideologies. Rarely if ever is the inherent authoritarianism of the current or any system of government acknowledged.
Understandable. But how does a government choose the label, in this case, communism, when the it's governed by a very small group of individuals and in most cases against the will of the people?
Oh, in that case it's a Democratic Republic of the Free People. The label the government chooses for itself might not be accurate according to political science.
The governing body is the vanguard which is to downsize overtime and the country is to eventually shift to a worker lead government. It would be anarchy to deploy communism without first building the systems to allow for a workers lead government, especially off of the back from a greed riddled society and like wise surrounded by greed riddled capitalist countries.
I should also so that mention communism isnt often implemented against the will of the people, Russia pre communism was an awful place, low literary, low life expectancy and the working class/ peasantry were exploited by the west and ruling class. They had a long bloody civil war and held strong. Then after which things slowly improved under communism.
I'm definitely not an expert on this. But let's take foss as an example. I find it to be an amazing bottom up community that contributes to itself freely. I can't imagine how a top down system would flourish if a small group of people decided what was good for the foss community and deleted what they thought wasn't. Is there is a distinction? Is there different versions of communism I should check out?
Its called worker lead, classless society.
foss has a legally binding licence to support itself, this licence can be seen as a vanguard as it steers and protects the software, without the licence people would be sure to steal and monetise others works. But let's say Foss became the defacto, everyone releases free fully open and no anti feature software, we could loss the vanguard and naturally a classless system would be present.
Could a non-human vanguard be possible for a broader scope of governance? I don't trust humanity all that much when it come to dictation.
No, that is just another class of ownership. Whoever maintains the AI would be the ruling class. Or if we're talking AGI, there's little reason humanity should trust what humans build over what humans do.
AI could do it but this is fantasy, current ai would have everyone eating glue pizza lol.
This should be worked on seriously. Our future looks bleak and we need to do something about it.
It already was, compare project cybersyn to the Walmarts and amazons we have now.
Software is not a person and will serve the people in control of it.
Sorry, but I don't trust humanity. How do I know this isn't just some ploy to further enslave workers?
There's hypothetically a bunch of different version of communism for everyone. The thing is, Marx described the problems with capitalism, and some vague sense of what socialism could be, some guidelines of what it should aim for, then kind of left the details up to each individual society to get there how they think is best based on their individual material conditions. He gave his own guesses, but didn't think he could predict that part fully, it would be up to the people of the future to figure it out and build on. A third world country, rural serf based near fuedal society, like Russia, would have completely different needs from some post-industrial country, like if Germany turned communist, for example. If the world's sole superpower, the US, turned communist, it would probably be a lot different than communist countries that had to transition under siege neighboring imperialism, like Cuba, North Korea, or Vietnam.
This is just to answer your last question. Don't think this really addresses your other questions, but just wanted to explain that part, as I've had it explained to me before. But I generally agree with you. There should still be some form of democracy but it might look different than what we are used to here in the US or liberal west.