Post Ai5ofGbKuBdInVteYC by jmccabe@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ai514BMKXKlU4TZ572 by aeleoglyphic@mastodon.social
       2024-05-20T05:40:52Z
       
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       @Outersider @Radical_EgoCom @jmccabe "I have devised a system that will fix most problems." "Does it fix all problems?" "No, I don't see how's that helpfu-" "UTOPIAN!"
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofFmHxyneFC0sz2 by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:00:10Z
       
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       "It will be in vain to preach patience. The people will be patient no longer, and if food is not put in common they will plunder the bakeries."Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread #communism #socialism #anarchism #libertarianism
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofGbKuBdInVteYC by jmccabe@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:03:21Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom LOL - when the bakeries are raided it will be only the poor that suffer.  The rich will continue to get richer and continue to sic the poor on the poor...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofH5T69jgIxziW8 by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:17:08Z
       
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       @jmccabe You're right. That's why Kropotkin, in the quote and elsewhere in the book, suggests that food be put in common and given to all with no exceptions.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofHs2BaaGjaiVDU by jmccabe@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:18:44Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom Has there been a society in the history of mankind where the ruling class just started sharing without violence or the threat thereof??
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofINwGy6YKXdywi by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:30:34Z
       
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       @jmccabe Not that I know of, but Kropotkin isn't suggesting that the ruling class be convinced to share the resources they control and hoard, but to overthrow the ruling class and establish a communist society and collective ownership of the means of production.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofIvGH4l9ztEasy by jmccabe@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:33:17Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom It's that "overthrow" that never seems to work out for the collective.Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofJg3T6BqL17xp2 by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:35:35Z
       
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       @jmccabe In a communist society, there won't be a new boss. The entire workforce of the society would be decentralized and controlled/managed by the workers collectively.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofKGZHLOgAGD7jc by jmccabe@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:36:48Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom How'd that work out in Russia?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofKkLUdDTec8u9I by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-04-24T22:42:05Z
       
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       @jmccabe They failed because of their use of the state, coercion, and hierarchical institutions, which are antithetical to the principles of communism.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai5ofL9rxjdIvm5Hvs by jeremy_list@hachyderm.io
       2024-05-20T19:56:24Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom @jmccabe the fact that they used the state and hierarchical institutions was antithetical to communism, and so was the way in which they used them.