I often see these words used interchangeably, though as I understand it there is a difference between the two ideologies, no?

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Communism of a sort existed...in tribes.

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    I'd count those as the scattered households.

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    The basic idea is the same. No state needed. People function to help each other, etc.

    Sorry, I'm a big David Graeber guy and he made a point to discuss this in some of his work. It exists throughout history.

    I don't know if you're in software, but IMO communism is like agile. It works very well at small scale (which is why products from startups are good), but once a community loses autonomy and division of labor becomes a thing...it's over.

    Socialism is an attempt at SAFE (scaled agile framework for enterprise). IMO it doesn't really work, but I do like the idea of having markets where it makes sense, and having social programs that are not profit motivated or maybe even run by the government...so basically Bernie's position.

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