- cross-posted to:
- anarchism@slrpnk.net
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1803761
Original title (which I find a bit too click-baity):
Socialism: Let’s Not Resuscitate the Worst Mistake of the 20th Century
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1803761
Original title (which I find a bit too click-baity):
Socialism: Let’s Not Resuscitate the Worst Mistake of the 20th Century
And its not even a case of “state socialism results in state violence” (it does, continously), its that planned economies make it so that small errors in judgement result in massive issues. I’m a little tired of the “mistakes where made” crowd like “oopsie we did a The Great Famine”. Contemporary analysis by anarchists and unionists knew already said it wouldn’t work.
Yep. I tend to be skeptical of anarcho-communism, but at least it fails gracefully. Worst case scenario, people just start trading again. I still want people to try it, because what if they’re right? Or what if they’re not completely right, but we learn something useful?
Yeah, like small scale communism, anarcho or not, is extremely old and has even worked in the industrial age. When it fails, the communities dissolve, but they don’t starve