Lenin: "The difference between the revolutionary Marxists and the anarchists is not only that the former stand for centralised, large-scale communist production, while the latter stand for disconnected small production..."

My thoughts: It's fairly obvious now that "Bigger is Always Better" is wrong. It would have seemed more convincing 100 years ago. Bigger is sometimes better. Small-scale production has some advantages. (Do I need to state them? I'll leave it to the reader as an exercise.)

If Big Communism and Small Anarchism both have their uses in their contexts, some sort of dual-track economy is needed, two parallel ways of organising the means of production.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    The hexbear rules against sectarian posts or comments will be strictly enforced here.

    effectively shuts down a useful discussion of this, because any comment perceived as too critical will risk a ban

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      I don't think it shuts it down at all, as long as the comments a critical of specifics and done in a constructive manner (e.g. not infantilizing of either side or dismissive of one another).

      The anti-sectarianism rules here are much more directed at posts calling each other "anarkiddies" or "authoritarian tankies" type slapfights.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        thanks, I should actually read the rules. I'm probably a little overly paranoid but I shouldn't transfer bad experiences with :reddit-logo: here