The problem is that so many people can’t see that there are any shades of grey between Trotskyist communism and free market capitalism. Like it has to be one absolute or the other. Such bizarre black-and-white thinking.
Hell yeah. Democratic Confederalism, Proudohnism, Council Communism… there are so many potential systems of anti-authoritarian socialism that have failed to flourish due to circumstance or conspiracy that could make life so much better for so many people.
Could consider that one of the effects of the capitalist west’s active intervention to prevent any form of socialism and communism during the last… can just say century at this point but especially post-WW2 by sponsoring fascist intervention, is that it applied a selection criteria on which forms of these states could actually survive.
The problem is that so many people can’t see that there are any shades of grey between Trotskyist communism and free market capitalism. Like it has to be one absolute or the other. Such bizarre black-and-white thinking.
Hell yeah. Democratic Confederalism, Proudohnism, Council Communism… there are so many potential systems of anti-authoritarian socialism that have failed to flourish due to circumstance or conspiracy that could make life so much better for so many people.
Could consider that one of the effects of the capitalist west’s active intervention to prevent any form of socialism and communism during the last… can just say century at this point but especially post-WW2 by sponsoring fascist intervention, is that it applied a selection criteria on which forms of these states could actually survive.
The Sovs spent almost as much time crushing non-ML left movements as the West did. Non-ML systems have had it from both sides.
Absolutely. Look at what the Bolsheviks did to the Makhnovshchina.