Comment by WalterBright

2 years ago

There have been over 20,000 communes set up in the US. They are not illegal. Pick one and join it. Or set your own up.

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harwoodjp  2 years ago

Socialism is seizing the workplace from the capitalist.

  • WalterBright  2 years ago

    The problem with a system based on taking is that one runs out of things to take.

    Better to have a system based on creating things.

    • harwoodjp  2 years ago

      Well actually socialism has been historically concerned with maximizing human creativity. Fourier’s utopian vision was “libidinal” work that aligns passions with labor. Marcuse has a similar view in Eros and Civilization. Chomsky views creativity as axiomatic for humans, and syndicalism the appropriate system for harnessing it.

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    • max_hoffmann  2 years ago

      That’s why cooperatism is superior to socialism and capitalism. It’s a free market of worker-owned companies, creating things by running their businesses together.

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