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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

So... What do you guys think about the philosophy of Anarchist Communism?

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Hugh, did you even read the article I posted below the question and my comment? It explains the philosophy.

Update 2:

nokilleye, I guess you've never heard of historical (and for quite a while successful) Anarchist societies such as Anarchist Spain and medieval Iceland. This is the fallacy so many people fall into. Just because there is no government rule doesn't mean people are going to go off the deep end and randomly kill each other. If that was true, there would be no way the human race would have lasted this long. There's anarchy even in government. It doesn't take soldiers putting guns to the back of my head for me to act like a rational person.

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    Perhaps with a government that was completely devoid of corruption communism could be somewhat workable, but the world rarely sees such a government. Communist governments tend to be very corrupt and controlling.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Anarchist communism is the earliest ideology for the seizure of power by the working class. Marxism, Leninism etc are just qualitative advancements over it.

  • 8 years ago

    Any and all forms of Anarcho-(fill in your choice of delusional preference here) preclude the possibility of (fill in your choice of delusional preference here) because "Anarcho" precludes the possibility of homogyny, consensus and coordination therefore "Anarcho" can never be anything but random chaos and random chaos is NOT (fill in your choice of delusional preference here) unless of course your proposition is Anarcho-Nihilism in which case random chaos would be the expected result and thus coincide with the apparent nomenclature.

    *** If a community acts in a cooperative fashion within an institutionalized framework of uniformity and conformity, that is governance, and governance is government with or without the formalization. Government is a process, not a corporeal state. I think the thought process of most Anarco-(fill in the blank)s is that you are disenchanted with government in general (and not for altogether bad reasons) and you think if you subtract the dedicated physical structures with physical addresses, you then accomplish the results of governance "without government". These are inconsequential technicalities. Something as sophisticated as communism is never going to happen without some form of cooperative organization and institutionalized conformity -- you HAVE to know that. If you expect the cooperative organization, you propose government, you just don't like what you think the word means so you are attempting to eliminate it from the vernacular but that doesn't change what it is. You are guilty of some fallacy in this as well, for example, 1) just because there is no "government rule" doesn't mean there is no conformity, law or enforcement -- doesn't mean there is no governance. 2) Do modern liberal democracies really "rule" in the first place? I submit the term "rule" is archaic and not even applicable to modern representative government. It is imperfect and we have a whole lot of improvement and development still ahead of us but modern western democracies do not "rule", >> the people << rule, and if the government is excessive or tyrannical that is because the people by consensus mandate an excessive or tyrannical government... and these are the same people that are going to spontaneously conform to communism with no cooperative organization or planning? These people are not going to behave better with no government, they are going to behave worse. 3) In what country under what government do soldiers put guns to the back of our heads to enforce conformity? We can cite a whole lot of examples, most prominently militaristic right wing fascist countries where soldiers stop girls in pants on the street then use scissors to cut their pants into makeshift skirts because women aren't allowed to wear pants, and soldiers storm the homes of dissident journalists, execute them then dispose of their bodies in secrecy. Is that the way it works in western democracies? Do our governments send soldiers to our homes to collect taxes with a gun to the back of our heads? "Government rule" and "guns to our heads" is hysterical hyperbole. That's right wing fascist Ayn Rand talk, not proper communist talk.

    Fifty thousand years of development brings us to where we are. You want communism? Work for it through democratic process, it takes a fraction of the effort it would otherwise take to turn the clock back twenty thousand years, and we can never go back there anyway. It's physically impossible now, the momentum of history precludes it. The only potential of "Anarcho-" in our future is sci-fi post apocalypse scenario. The potential for communism through democratic process is about a million times more probable.

    Sorry to lecture, I sympathize, especially with the communism. I think we are together in spirit and all that really separates us is dispute over definitions and technicalities. I have also read up quite a bit on anarchy theory and have absolutely no patience for it anymore so I am quite confrontational and unyielding in my opposition to it.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    That is an oxymoron. Anarchy is the absence of government, and Communism requires extreme government oversight to be effective.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Untenable, unrealistic, doomed to become communist tyranny.

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