Communism was a reactionary force, and yes it had its, lets says, horrors, but look at neoliberalism, marx acctually predicted it will eat itself and the planet alive.
I lived in a communistic Country in the 80s, i can tell you it was not that horrible at that particular time. i think we have to break out of ideoligies completly to be able to build a decent future.
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Neoliberalism, as defined, does not exist. It is much the same with communism. An authoritarian control, whether it be private, or government, must be employed to make either work. Both are broken, laboring under delusion, but communism is far and away the leader in killing. Hitler's whole death machine was dwarfed by the planet sized storm of bloodletting that is communism. It always starts out great, after the resistors are dead. There are occasional pockets of tranquility. #onlymostcommunists are abject slaves or mass murdering tyrants.
To put things in perspective, it does not start out great, russia and china are examples, it was reactionary to dictatorial or foreign rule, in other conflicts it was not communism alone that perpetrated the deaths, most civil wars were fuled by outside forces. If you want to pin the bloodshed of the 20th century on someone, how about the Elites which profited on every single death. on everything else im with you. :D
Communism is but one of the more destructive tools used by the people who seek to manipulate everything to their benefit. I don't think we disagree. It seems a minor variation in viewpoint. Religion and ideology are continuously used by the power players to manipulate us all.
Imagine communism aplied not by Mao or Stalin but by Ghandi or MLK, could become something waaaay better, it is the first bottom-up Idea, ultimately corrupted and made into top-down system. but the Idea itself had collectivism at the core, and thats what we ultimately have in the decentralization movement,
okay lets agree on Ideologies suck, and they are just a framework for rule.
i completely support thatm i just want to say that initial ideas are often better than their implementations, exept blockchain.
We shall see. I have my doubts about the blockchain, or at least it's eventual manipulation by the powerful.