You can guess who they are talking about.
Also for those not in the know AES = "actually existing socialism" i.e. state capitalist dictatorships that are socialist in name only
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So...you a pro-authoritarian?
"Why yes, read on Authority." -Tankie response
Basically, it feels like 99% of USeans think communist means ML including MLs themselves.
That's 100% by design from both ends. ML call themselves communist despite all the evidence to the contrary. And then they don't actually teach what communism is here. Just re assert ML claims that they somehow are as they attack them. China etc aren't any more AES in any meaningfully way than the west.
Nah, communism can exist without marxism-leninism
It can but there's 99% chance that this person is ML
Oh definitely! That I didn't doubt haha
Still totalitarianism, which is a current that doesn’t have much differentiation from ML Stalinism.
Anarcho-Communism is not totalitarian friend.
But it is based on weird assumptions. Like, "your family doesnt have hierarchies and it works, why wouldn't you run the country in the same way". Uh um did you see some families? Things can get really fucked up. And I'm not even taking about the scaling issue.
This sounds like you might have some misconceptions about anarchy, that's ok :)
I can recommend Peter Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid" or this quick overview: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-anarchy-101
But besides that, this comment thread was about whether communism is always authorotarian/totalitarian and I think I have shown that it is not.
The shit I'm talking about is literally from Kropotkin's book.
Show me.
How is a classless stateless society a totalitarian state? If there's a totalitarian state it isn't communist because it's a state. Not just totalitarian.
... but anti-western