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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not arguing that the attempts haven't been made, I'm saying that the end result, or status quo if you'd prefer, doesn't align with intent. Intent isn't irrelevant, but I don't think it holds as much water as results.

Like @[email protected] said, communes have and do exist, and some form of communism has existed throughout history, and likely before it. The states we have today though don't hold up to scrutiny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The "end" result did align with the intent. The USSR, for example, never tried to jump straight to Communism. They were Marxists, they opted to go through Socialism.

Communism isn't "doing Socialism for a while then collapsing into magical Communism arbitrarily." It's a long, drawn-out process of building towards Communism. Socialism wasn't a temporary sacrifice, but a drastic improvement on previous conditions.

The states we have today have never identified their conditions as Communist, but as Socialist, with a stated goal of moving towards Communism.

Communes are Anarchist, not Marxist, so pretending only Communes have managed to accomplish what Marxist states set out to do is a drastic misunderstanding of Marxism, Communism, and Anarchism.