I hate having to learn every detail about this bullshit. At least give me a link to some bullshit explaining why the obscure leftist bullshit was good or bad. Fuck.
You know what I don’t fucking get? I don’t get how people keep acting like “oh dang the Peoples Socialism Commune of Communist Liberation Fronts where just at the cusp of getting communism, but suddenly everyone stoped and agreed to do the opposite for no fucking reason.” Like I don’t fucking have to go and look up what that fucking bullshit reason was now.
Here's a writeup on the communes by a Trotskyist. He brings up some good points about how the communes were not the greatest and were actually incredibly hierarchical and extractive. I would say that the need for them is non-existent now seeing as how China utilized the economic reforms to use foreign capital to develop productive capacity and infrastructure instead of brigades of peasants. The comparison to the TVA at the end makes a lot of sense. The communes utilized an excess of labor power to build public works instead of industrial machinery like the TVA did. They definitely weren't some dreamlike utopian communist unit.
Also, feel free to call me out if this is a bad source or something. It seemed to have a bit of bias, but isn't too harsh one way or the other and has a lot of primary sources in the citations.
I hate having to learn every detail about this bullshit. At least give me a link to some bullshit explaining why the obscure leftist bullshit was good or bad. Fuck.
You know what I don’t fucking get? I don’t get how people keep acting like “oh dang the Peoples Socialism Commune of Communist Liberation Fronts where just at the cusp of getting communism, but suddenly everyone stoped and agreed to do the opposite for no fucking reason.” Like I don’t fucking have to go and look up what that fucking bullshit reason was now.
Here's a writeup on the communes by a Trotskyist. He brings up some good points about how the communes were not the greatest and were actually incredibly hierarchical and extractive. I would say that the need for them is non-existent now seeing as how China utilized the economic reforms to use foreign capital to develop productive capacity and infrastructure instead of brigades of peasants. The comparison to the TVA at the end makes a lot of sense. The communes utilized an excess of labor power to build public works instead of industrial machinery like the TVA did. They definitely weren't some dreamlike utopian communist unit.
Also, feel free to call me out if this is a bad source or something. It seemed to have a bit of bias, but isn't too harsh one way or the other and has a lot of primary sources in the citations.