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

call myself a communist so people don't get the wrong idea about me

So...you a pro-authoritarian?

... but anti-western

Nah, communism can exist without marxism-leninism

These people use far too much jargon. Especially liberal, nobody really seems to know what one is exactly, but they call each other and everyone they interact with one.

These people use far too much jargon.

It's very intentional, it allows them to change the meanings of words on the fly, then claim that the problem is your ignorance of what they really meant.

Basically, it feels like 99% of USeans think communist means ML including MLs themselves.

To them, liberal is everyone who isn't a ML who isn't a straight up neonazi.

It can but there's 99% chance that this person is ML

Oh definitely! That I didn't doubt haha

Communist is still the wrong word if they want people not to get the wrong idea.

Omg

I'm not so sure about that. Hexbear called me a fascist and a lib in the same thread. 😆

You just don't read enough theory.

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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.

"Why yes, read on Authority." -Tankie response

Still totalitarianism, which is a current that doesn’t have much differentiation from ML Stalinism.

Anarcho-Communism is not totalitarian friend.

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 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.

Edit: didn't think so.

Just because MLs claim they are communist, doesn't mean it's true. Or do you naively believe the DPRK to be democratic just because it is in the name?