I love how everyone here dislikes communism so much.
Discussion
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I am an anarcho-taoist.
Interesting, but why communism? I think that‘s a contradiction if you want to be an anarchist on the one hand and advocate a system with centralism and control on the other.🤔
I do see myself leaning towards anarcho-syndicalism
Communism involves central power, but capitalism is essentially the same, if not worse. Communists, however, aim to serve a purpose for people, such as building infrastructure. I don’t support any central authority, but I do agree with building infrastructure and tools for everyone; Universal Basic Income is an example of this communist approach. I was raised with socialist values and tend to view capitalism as greedy and selfish, though I haven’t done a critical analysis of anarcho-capitalism. I plan to read core texts to critique it further.
Some thoughts and references.
> “A communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
Ronald Regan
> “I was a Marxist... then I took an economics course.”
Thomas Sowell
Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.
Basically the entire book is arguing that central planning inevitably leads to tyranny.
Yes, many countries that identified as communist didn’t create a utopia but ended up as tyrannies. While I disagree with many of Marx's proposed solutions, I do agree with his analysis of capital and the working class.
