I am not criticizing them, I’m just out of the loop.

  • MxM111@kbin.social
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    Strange. I thought decentralized power is anarchistic. Kind of opposite to historical communist regimes.

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      Communism is defined as stateless. Karl Marx said that while a vanguard party may be a path to achieve communism, it’s not communist until the state is dissolved. Until then, it’s socialist.

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      I think it’s a mixed bag. While anarchistic approaches do lean that way (and there’s a lot more I need to learn about it beyond the nonsense I was told in school), the communist ideology also gave a lot of power to workers, but on the flip side, taking the approach of a centrally planned economy requires a concentration of power. So, the world is full of contradictions, I guess