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Why don't communist movements focus on creating and nurturing employee owned businesses?
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this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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Youβre proposing socialism.
Communism wants central authority.
isn't that anarchy?
That's two different definitions of Communism. Anarchist Communism can be likened to Commune-ism, ie a decentralized network of communes, while Marxists want Communism as a fully publicly owned and planned global economy, one that requires centralization.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks so much for clearing that up for me.
No problem! It's a common misconception, even among Marxists and Anarchists, that both want the same exact society on a different time scale, when in reality it's not really the same thing at all. Both are responses to Capitalism, but in different directions.
I mean kind of yes but most people would not call them synonymous
Thats so funny because you have it completely backwards. Communism, the end goal, is a moneyless, classless, stateless society in which hierarchy has ceased to exist. State socialism or "the dictatorship of the proletariat" is a interim step on the path to communism that aims to eliminate class and the social structures that perpetuate it.
Hierarchy would exist even in Communism, at least in Marxist conceptions. Class would not exist, but it won't be until an extremely developed, extremely late-stage Communism where all distinctions in the division of labor can genuinely be moved beyond, well after class has been abolished.
I think long term we could find a place for those who wish to live in a decentralized commune free of hierarchy. I understand that the centralized vision of communist human progress essentially requires hierarchy but I think we will progress to a point where that becomes undesirable for a large amount of people. Eventually we will reevaluate what it means to even progress.
It's more that eventually, in the far far future, as technology advances we may be able to erase it once and for all, but there's no basis for being able to do so without it.
Therefore, socialism should be the ultimate aim.
It can't be, really, as Socialism either progresses to Communism or backslides to Capitalism.
I truly believe a mixed economy is the answer.
All economies are mixed, the difference in designation of "Capitalist," or "Socialist" depends on which aspect of the economy is principle, private or public. Communism is a post-Socialist society, a highly developed form of Socialism where private ownership becomes redundant and economically unviable.
Socio democracy and I'm onboard.
Edit: all socialist & communist dictatorship losers can go live in North Korea IMO. Read a history book ffs.
Edit2: my fault, I didn't see I was on .ml Tank on tankies.
Social Democracy is just Capitalism with welfare, all of the "good" Social Democracies in the eyes of Social Democrats like the Nordic Countries depend on Imperialism to function and are seeing sliding welfare and worker protections as a function of being dominated by Private ownership.
America chose the route of social security and a mandated minimum wage instead of the state seizing the assets of robber barons and returning them to the communities that were responsible for their success.
You can see today exactly how well that worked out for the working class: minimum wage is below the poverty line and hasn't been a living wage since the 70s, social security is being undone, and the government regulations that mandated a standard of living for working class Americans have been entirely dismantled.
This is the result of leaving the power within the capitalist class and allowing them to get away with their abuses without punishment: they do it again as soon as they get the chance.
Socialism IS democratic production, thus the political systems can reflect as such. Maybe more regional control, as I'm led to understand the Swiss cantons function like. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The Swiss model isn't Socialist, but I may be misunderstanding your comment.