Tankies take a moment to engage in some North Korea propaganda. 'North Korea is a democracy'
(sh.itjust.works)
also downvoted for preferring democracy lol
It’s nice you have a special, ever-changing definition of communism that conveniently excludes authoritarians whenever you want and which you’re unable to properly define aside from vague handwaves with ‘watch this video’ or ‘read this book’ – As if a youtube video is credible to the likes of scholars, or that you expect people to read a book that has a certain point of view that is at odds with others.
I defined it clearly, as all marxists do, as a classless, currencyless, stateless society in which the workers own the means of production at the "end of history" by the marxist materialist dialectic. I will not use any other definition because that's the definition marx made...
impossible to implement exactly as it’s written.
Marx never gave a specific implementation or even wrote about how it would be implemented... he merely gave a critique of capital and explained some inevitabilities about future societies based on these observations.
Though, I would like to see you make these arguments against tankies instead of communities like this one.
I do. Furthermore I wasn't even trying to argue with you, just inform you about communist belief. You were arguing against something no communist scholar would've said.
Unless you think that tankies are communist, in which case I’m concerned if you agree with them.
I think they are (sometimes) communist, but I disagree with their methods to such a degree that we are not similar at all. In the same way you don't agree with hitler just because he was a capitalist.
Tell me also what you think of Stalin, Mao, North Korea, and how every country that has tried communism has ended up authoritarian.
Easy, I think they ended up authoritarian for a number of reasons, the first and foremost of which is that there is a great deal of power attempting to suppress communist thought, and a vanguard party was the easiest way to enact communist thought in the early history of communism, this combined with the fact that capitalists actively try to dismantle non-capitalist societies at every possible threat lead to a survival of the fittest scenario where authoritarian methods were the most survivable because ruthless authoritarianism is very good at surviving despite the world being against it.
I don't want authoritarian communism, in my eyes the ends do not justify the means, I want something similar to the anarcho-syndicalists of revolutionary catalonia, or the zapatistas of mexico... which by the way are counter examples to the notion that all socialist projects end up authoritarian, they were both fundamentally democratic from the ground up to such an extent that everything was handled democratically, no politicians even in the case of the zapatistas.
It's not at all impossible to implement communism without a dictatorship, anarchists have done it countless times and then been destroyed by large capitalist armies throughout history. The real question is can a communist or anarchist society survive being trampled by the bourgeois. I think it's possible but the conditions must be right, and I think your stance would have said the american revolution would be impossible.