Alien Overlord wrote:Torrocca wrote:
And, also, the claim that Marxism-Leninism is Socialism is, at best, dubious as hell given that Socialism (literally right up until the Bolshevik regime in Russia, in fact) was and is defined as "the social ownership of the means of production", and not the state control of basically everything like the Bolsheviks played things off as.
Not actually going to argue with you about this, apart from sounding like a parrot with mentioning that Primitive Communism was a thing.
Genuinely curious, but how would a Communist Society under your ideals handle someone who wants to emulate Capitalism? As i understand it the only way to maintain the system is to use force, social control isn't enough. Hence the need for a "Vanguard Party" or having the government control basically everything.
Ideally, someone would have the freedom to start up their own private business (likely via turning any personal possessions that can be used as the means of production into privately-owned means of production rather than via using already-established MoP that are communally owned and shared, since it's unlikely the rest of the commune would agree with such a thing, all things considered), but it's dubious at best that anyone would voluntarily choose to become a wage worker for such a person when, theoretically, their needs are already being met under Communism.