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We don't need State actors dictating politics, or choosing which politics are allowed on campus over students.
Even without a "state", such as with Libertarian Socialism, you'll still have power networks, such as worker councils, popular assemblies, and community federations. While there might not be jails, there will be re-education, or "restoratative justice" councils for anti-social people, aimed toward convincing individuals to change their behavior, one way or another.
Communists are a part of socialists but not all socialists are communist. At least that is how many see it, hence the comments about your somewhat strange differentiation between communists and socialists. Socialism is a bigger category than communism, like mammals are a bigger category than cats. But communism is part of the bigger socialist category, just like cats are mammals. At least that is my understanding of how people use the terms today.
It's not what I think - it's what it is... Communism is a communal society with no government at all, and no money. Everyone works together freely, such as like in a typical commune.
I would rather be a communist than a socialist, because pure communism would be the final end result of a successful socialist project. It would *be* the utopia, like the pot of gold that sits at the end of the rainbow...
If you are a communist then you're also a socialist. Many people view communism as a subset of socialism. You don't have to agree with it, but that is possibly why you get some pushback on the definitions issue. You would have to point out what you mean, if your meaning differs from that viewpoint.
Why would any socialist 'not like' communism? What is the big turn-off? Especially considering that communism has not yet been realized? How would they know, for sure, that they wouldn't like it?
The participants in the Spanish civil war and the occupants of Soviet mass graves would like a word.
The period called " the dictatorship of the proletariat", I guess.
Now, you're starting to sound like the " no true communist" crowd. Communists are judged by the behaviour of the people claiming to be communists. That can't be a foreign concept.
No, not likely.
I think you have confused communism with a sex cult.
I'm sure that you looked it up on the internet.
Yeah right. Socialists think they can create 10 words for every concept, that way nothing can be debated.
There are 5 communist states: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. I've been to 4 of those. And I distinctly remember buying things when I was there. I used pieces of paper and small circular metal discs representing different values you could use to exchange for goods. They had been officially issued by some group or other that ran the country.
We have communes here, and sex cults. Even gay sex cults. Sebastapol has some that I know of, and so does Guernville.
Lol, none of those states are actually Communist... They only say they're communist, because the political party in control is called: "The Communist Party" - but there has never actually been an actual Communist country on earth before.
