alt Hacker NewsThe idea that communism means that everyone owns everything equally is retarded. Communes themselves don't do this. People with more stake get more ownership
This corresponds to the first stage of Marxs theorized progession from capitalism too communism
Done hate the messenger. I'm just taking what I read and applying it to observed reality and telling you it fit.
Self described commies are dumb because they are incapable of enacting the very system they claim to idealize.
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That's just an infantile straw man though which has nothing to do with how communism works. Communism simply means that workers own their workplace and are the primary beneficiaries of their labor. In practice this means a mix of state ownership for cross-cutting concerns such as energy production or infrastructure and cooperative ownership for things like light industry. Cooperatives operate exactly the same way as companies owned by capitalists, except workers are in charge of running the company. Huawei is an example of how this works in the real world.
Maybe avoid opining on topics you have no idea in the future as not to make an ass of yourself in public.
Can you show a commune that has lasted 3 generations? So like people move in, they stay and have kids and their kids stay long enough to have kids themselves. So at least about ~50 years?
My impression of all these communes is:
- idealistic people move in
- they realize 90% of the people that moved in are lazy and don't want to work
- the rest of the 10% run the show and the commune either breaks down here or kicks out many people
- kids are born, they grow up and by the time they get to university age they find the whole thing cringy and leave to go have normal lives
- commune ends
Other than some that also degenerate into sexual abuse between members and other weird power games. My impression of these outsider hippie / communist groups is that their failure rate is very high.