I've been on vacation, so I haven't been
following the Stack Overflow moderator
strike.1 Not that there has
been much progress. Negotiations stalled for a variety of
reasons. Meanwhile
Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, dug the company's hole a
bit deeper during an interview with
VentureBeat.
Not to be confused with the [Writers and Actors Guilds ↩
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/paul_cockshott_cyber_communism.md
That legitimately reads like it was written by a teenager who played a bunch of strategy games.
So much of it is “this is how it will be” in a prescriptive tone as if you can just will things into existence.
You could describe perfect capitalism in this exact manner, but obviously things don’t work in real life according to your perfect scenario.
Here’s an article to answer your second paragraph. https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/yaffed/1972/mtccs/index.htm
I don’t understand your negativity. How else would you write a proposal for a completely new system to be talked about, if not in an idealistic and prescriptive manner? That’s the first step to then start a discussion about it and find and fix the aspects that people expect to not work in practice.
I have a quiz for you; Name a single successive communist country.
Only if you can name a single successful capitalist country
Name a single country that actually implemented communism and wasn’t undermined by the West with coups, sanctions, or outright invasion.
Oh and the word you’re looking for is “successful”. “Successive” is not in any way a synonym.
China
China is successful from the capitalistic point of view, but it failed to uphold the ideals and principles of the system described in the document. The exploitation of the people is through the roof.
Edit:
To further explain my point: Communism is a flawed system that cannot exist in its idealistic form due to the excessive concentration of power in the state, leading to three potential outcomes:
Communism is, in my opinion, a pipe dream because it proposes a classless, stateless society where the means of production are collectively owned and wealth is distributed equally among all members. However, in practice, historical attempts at implementing communism have faced challenges in terms of human nature, central planning inefficiencies, and lack of incentives, leading to economic stagnation, authoritarian rule, and often the collapse of the system.
China is communist in name only, in practice they are the definition of State Capitalism. I also wouldn’t describe a dictatorship that commits genocide as a success, in any case.
>China is communist in name only, in practice they are the definition of State Capitalism.
Oh, that’s great, because now you are the guy saying “that’s not communism” instead of the people attacking capitalism. Which is great because I think exactly the same!
See, East Germany or the USSR also weren’t communist, because there were no democratic elections (contrary to communist ideals), independent courts (contrary to communist ideals), free and independent media (contrary to communist ideals) or opposition parties (contrary to communist ideals).
It’s almost as if all the “communist” countries you know were not communist at all, but authoritarian.
You know there were socialist/communist success stories, right? But they were always couped and destroyed by conservatives. Noteworthy examples were the Paris Commune or the communist regions during the Occupation of the Ruhr, who resisted the military occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany by France and Belgium.
Are you mixing me up with someone else? That was my first comment in this entire thread so that’s a lot of assumptions to throw on me. Nowhere did I say there weren’t socialist/communist success stories. The person I replied to specifically singled out China as an example of a communist success, all I pointed out is that they’re neither communist nor successful.
Oh, sorry. My mistake. Didn’t mean to attack a wrong person.
Guess we’ll just have to try again in the west