03-19-2019, 11:11 AM
(03-19-2019, 08:25 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm aware, but that's still ideological communism. Both capitalism and communism, ideologically speaking, rely on little to no state. They rely on power solely in the hands of the people. I know most people are usually criticizing corrupted, applied attempts at communism when they are criticizing communism, but that is not the ideal version of communism. It's not the ideology.
I get the point you're making in this, and the previous, post. However, you're making it in a vacuum. At some point an idea must be judged by its fruits. In this case, communism, whenever put into practice in the real world has produced a single party autocracy often with an all powerful dictator at the helm. This is almost invariably accompanied by human rights atrocities, often on a vast scale. Even when it occasionally does not it results in an oppressive government that allows no dissent or variation of thought. So, I am forced to disagree. Communism, as an idea, is a polluted and dangerous ideology.
