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                  • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    Not all stateless societies are communism, I've already said this. Communism is a theorized mode of production to develop after capitalism, it is an idea of stateless, classless society developed by Marx. Developing according to a Marxist understanding is what defines Communism, as it was defined by Marx according to its development. If you hold an anarchist understanding of how to reach classless society, and try to destroy the state immediately to reach it, then you are an anarchist, not a communist, you are fighting for a classless society, but which is not communism, as it would not develop the way communism is meant to.

                                                  • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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                                                    4 years ago

                                                    Yes, communism is whatever you want it to be. I'm actually an anarchist myself, that's why I want to use the state to repress the counter-revolutionaries

                                                      • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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                                                        4 years ago

                                                        China is trying to use a state to transition to communism (which highlights what I've already said about not only ML's agreeing with the use of the state). If China was trying to achieve a stateless society through anarchist methods, and rejected state power in all circumstances, they wouldn't be called communist. The communist party also does use a Marxist understanding of economics, they of course don't agree with Marx on everything, but that was never required, Marxism is meant to evolve after all.

                                                        You also mentioned the linguistic usage of the term, which is what I was mainly arguing from, 1000 or so comments ago. Throughout history, those who call themselves communists have very different methods to those who call themselves anarchists, and violence has broken out between the two groups over their differences. Maybe you and some other guys online call yourselves anarcho-communists, but in any revolutionary time, there has been a stark contrast between those calling themselves communists and those calling themselves anarchists.

                                                          • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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                                                            4 years ago

                                                            anarchism isn’t no government, it is (generally depending on ideology) about the abolition of arbitrary hierarchies and power structures, not whatever looney tune idea of total chaos you’ve got going on

                                                            Forgot to respond to this. Anarchism absolutely rejects the state, that is what has defined anarchists during revolutionary times and set them at odds with those willing to set up state power. I know anarchy isn't just chaos, there is a theoretical system of government not involving hierarchy, but anarchists have always resisted the establishment of a state.

                                                          • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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                                                            4 years ago

                                                            They would be trying to establish a classless society, but they would not be developing communism as the next mode of production after capitalism.

                                                            except those anarchists who were attempting to establish a communist society

                                                            But that's not how it goes down, historically the two groups are at odds with each other, with those calling themselves anarchists wanting an immediate stateless society and defining themselves against communists

                                                            Violence between communists and anarchists is not just between MLs and anarchists. Trotsky had pretty militant attitudes about anarchists resorting to banditry and even stealing red army supplies, and he disagreed fundamentally with ML beliefs. MLism isn't just wanting to use a state btw, there are other groups willing to use state power with serious disagreements with MLs