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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
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You say, "I've not encountered a communist...", like that is a good thing. Let me fix that for you
I'm a communist. Companies would be better off if they were owned by workers rather than rich people. You know, workers owning the means of production, instead of capitalists?
Hopefully this hasn't ruined your Lemmy experience!
Yes, this is the popular side of lemmy communism. When people say they are bothered by Lemmy's politics, that's not what they are talking about. They are talking about tankies and campists who seem more interested in simping for shitty autocrats and making tyrants into folk heroes than engaging seriously with anything resembling contemporary political science.
Basically, as a leftist, I am annoyed by the part which is legitimately indistinguishable from right wing trolls trying to make leftists look stupid, which is unfortunately a large and vocal part of many leftist communities here.
It's made my lemmy experience better, thank you. 😘
I mean workers could own the majority of company stocks and be the share holders in a twisted sense of communism.
Sort of along the same vein - as unions grew weak in Australia a different way to represent workers was needed. Industry Superannuation funds were created. Workers pay into these retirement funds which in turn invest in the companies. These funds now represent the investors interest in the companies the investors work at.
There are certain kinds of market socialism that are intended to work this way I think, still have companies and markets and the familiar structures of a capitalist system but turn all the companies into worker co-operatives