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Communism and fascism look almost indistinguishable when compared to minarchism. The ONLY way for that to be true is to ascribe to 'horseshoe theory.' I don't. I think the game theory IS the Occam's Razor: A small govt can only inflict small tyranny, and reciprocally.
Benito said that "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." I believe this describes our so-called Neo-Libralism strikingly well... The US government is a rouge agent. They spy on us, they fight unconstitutional wars, they allow monopoly, they engage in obvious nepotism. The corruption is so deep its almost impossible to even begin. And its all funded by average joes tryna live a little life for themselves.
If I make [labor], how does it become the peoples' [labor]? It gets redistributed. If you dont earn fiat but get to keep your [widget] and government redistributes your [widget] then you have ostensibly been taxed at n%. Where you are one person and the people are many, therefore n% is presumably quite high.
In literally no universe is this true. Fascism has an all-encompassing state with all power vested in an individual; communism has no state and all power distributed among all the people
Like I said, we can get nowhere before you understand these basic things
You say Im propagandized :33 Both require Government+Corporate collusion. Oh, excuse me, in the new-speak, Community+MeansofProduction.
Show me a stateless Communism. However, we really should condense replies so we dont get out of whack.
This is pure fantasy. If there's any ideology more opposed to corporate power, it's communism. Do you even know what communism is? Please, give me a real answer.
"New-speak"? Workers seizing the means of production is literally in the Communist Manifesto. This isn't some hiding of a real agenda or a new addition. Why are you so ignorant to the theory of the ideology you spend so much effort "critiquing"?
Please, tell me what is so absurd to you about the idea of workers democratically managing an organisation together. Tell me what is so absurd about the people democratically managing production as a whole together. Why does this sound so oppressive to you? Why does this speak to you of state power, or of corporations?
The state spends so much effort suppressing people when they try to organise. The state hates this. This is a threat to the state. The same is true of corporate power. When workers unionise, corporations panic and beg the state to intervene. The state has intervened and sent in armed police to gun down union organisers, and that's ignoring the times corporations have sent private goon squads to put down native workers in foreign countries.
State and corporate power are against communism. Why do you think the US has invaded so many countries that have attempted it, to put it down and halt it in its tracks?
I'm sorry, but for the reasons stated above it's pretty impossible to do that. But it has existed in pockets, such as revolutionary Catalonia.