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RE: My problem with Communism

in #communism7 years ago

See my exchanges with @kidsysco in the comments. We addressed Scale.

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You capitalists also never address the hierarchy of the work place, how are you going to solve that? Or is that a none-issue to you?

I didn't talk about capitalism at all in my article. It was not necessary as I wasn't focusing on the MARKET, property, or the means of production anywhere in my post.

Imagine that. :) Like I said in my post I was writing about something that was not the things people usually attack. :)

In fact the only time I mentioned anarcho-capitalism was as credit for the saying "good ideas do not require force".

So my post still stands and the issues I wrote about in it actually have nothing to do with property, or the market. :)

Another post though what you are talking about may be relevant.

See what @kidsysco and I talked about though and I think it will address some of your example.

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Well, I agree with the problem of scale. Luckily I don't have to defend those an-coms :P

On the topic of force or violence I am on your side. If someone commits a crime he deserves punishment and that can administered with force. You are OK with that, right? However purging the non-believers is something socialism/communism should reject as an idea, sadly it often does not.

Oh and just so the NSA and Verfassungsschutz makes me a free backup of all my internet traffic: I would support a serious coup d'etat though :)

If someone commits a crime he deserves punishment and that can administered with force. You are OK with that, right

I don't agree if it was a victimless crime. I am okay with it if there was an actual victim. And if the victim is calling it a crime because the person said they called them a name or something petty like that then I am not okay with that.

Though I tend to be an advocate for people having property that belongs to them, and if I make something it can be mine. If I find out how to make something nice people like, and I save up enough to build a place that can make more of them and I voluntarily find people that agree to work for me for whatever they and I agreed to and I can make more, that does not suddenly make that belonging to the public and those people. The people can choose not to work for me. Someone else can offer them a better deal. If they voluntarily chose to work with me and agreed to the contract then that is between them and me, and is of no concern to anyone else.

I do consider COERCION as force an involuntary so if the person was coerced into working for someone that is a different story.

However, CRIME is not always a crime in my opinion. The States call a lot of things crimes that are nothing of the sort as far as I am concerned.

Of course I meant real crime like theft and murder , not breaking one of billion useless laws we have. Btw who is to determine what is crime and what is not?

I do consider COERCION as force an involuntary so if the person was coerced into working for someone that is a different story.

To me a place where I can only get money through getting someone to employ me and if I don't have money I starve to death is something I consider "coercion". There are many jobs/talents where you can work as your own boss or start a company but there will be a lot of people who rely on the job market and sometimes feel immense pressure by it.

Oh and I found out there are people who call themselves "libertarian socialists", they say a lot of stuff that is similar to my ideas.

Oh and I found out there are people who call themselves "libertarian socialists", they say a lot of stuff that is similar to my ideas.

Yeah there are a lot of DENOMINATIONS of Libertarianism and Anarchism. :)

Exactly... which is why I put DENOMINATIONS in caps. :)

agreed that they don't believe the right to live is a right,

I talked about using 'Vogelfreiheit' instead of prison in the article I linked you.

Socialism always requires a monopoly

nope, you just define socialism as state communism. Look at the very definition of the word "social". It just acknowledges that we live in a society.

If you want me to get rid of the word I have to disappoint you, we Germans just associate completely different things with it and I don't want to be lumped up with capitalist nut-jobs like you :P

vengeance is what punishment

I wrote an article about my ideas of punishment.
https://steemit.com/politics/@thatgermandude/why-do-we-need-prison-2-alternatives

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