Communism must never be allowed to succeed

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[–]Bond_Villain 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Haha - It won't. It can't. The assholes pushing it might, in the short-term, and probably will because they're pushy assholes - but the concept of 'communism' only works on a very small scale - called the 'family'.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A family is a top down hierarchical structure -- parents are in charge, kids obey -- yet the ultimate goal of communism is essentially the levelling away of hierarchical distinctions. In theory at least. Why do you say that the family is small scale communism? I don't think I've ever heard that before.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

He probably thinks communism = social cooperation of any kind that isn't psychopathic egoism

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's what I assumed as well but I'd still like to see what he means. It's also bizarre on its face given that most Marxists loathed the family as conceived of in Western nations and criticized it as a bourgeois construction that people needed liberating from. The Frankfurt School certainly seemed to devote a lot of time to deconstructing it and describing it as basically a cause of neuroses and 'Authoritarian' ideas. Seems weird to deconstruct and attempt to destroy something which is what your aim is.