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1/2 of what Modern Communist state is "$x communist wasn't or isn't a true communist" Exegesis is the only thing that bring modern Communism together.

I think if we cooperate like our gentle cousins the Bonobos for a century or two we’d basically have Star Trek.

Bonobos are limited in their geographic reach to a small area in the Congo. They might not be the best model for how humans should behave. Even if they're relatively peaceful, they still are highly territorial and will engage in warfare if needed. And if we lived in that manner we likely wouldn't be able to support a population much higher than them (10-30k per million sq miles depending on the estimates you're looking for). There's about 25 million square miles of habitable land on the planet so we'd have a global population of 750k people so we'd have to kill of roughly 8.01 billion people to accomplish this goal.

The concept of cooperation transcends any flawed man. We can do better than this but continuing to enable the psychopaths that got us here seems beyond impractical.

The concept of cooperation is at the core of the modern western society too. It's at the core of any society really.

We can do better than this but continuing to enable the psychopaths that got us here seems beyond impractical.

I think the record of Communism shows that it has the same ability to enable psychopaths without the means to minimally keep them in check.

You've not looked into Communism too much have you?

Marx had the opportunity to see Communist movements rise in his own timeline. And he opposed the implementation of Communism in a Democratic manner. And wrote about it in his criticiques of the Germany's Communist movements source. In his criticiques he lays out how he believes a transitional state should be laid out, how it should be organized. And later Lenin refers extensively to this blueprint in his written works and it's clear to me upon reading that he truly believes what he says.

In my experience about almost every modern day Communist hear arguments made about the USSR not being based in Communism and have failed to even hear of this critique of the mythic Democratic Communism they believe I'm so much.

Read the critique, and given everything you know about human beings tell me honestly, do you truly believe a multi-generational dictatorship of the proletariat, led by you (or someone whom you'd champion), would really work?

I'm saying that your political opinions and knowledge of history is based on vibes....

I've been on the internet a very long time. But this is the first time I've seen a Communist (or anyone really) ague their position based on the vibes of the person their arguing against.

In theory that's what we had in the VHS days. But I hear you. Piracy today is a superior product in almost any scenario.

You're not more Communist than Lenin. Read his letters and works (they've been translated to English) and tell me that's not a man who truly believes in the things Marx said.

France is still gangster with it. But the rest of Europe pretends that it's greener to buy oil from Russia.

Not really sure what you're trying to say here.

The ideas are why it failed. Thats the core problem. Marx believed he could build in essence a church of Communism that would be incorruptible zealots who would lead society to Communism. A dictatorship of the proletariat led by an enlightened few who could teach and reeducate the masses to live in productive harmony with one another. And that, for many reasons, never works.

"Am I a joke to you?" - Nuclear power in Europe.

Ironic as I went the other way. I was a Communist when I got into FOSS and as I got older I realized I could never defend the historical record of Communism.

If democracy dies it will be because we punished those who broke the rules to strengthen it and defended those who broke the rules to destroy it.

What a bar. We need to get this on a mountain or something.

No offense. But if it's truly a money problem, the studios have nothing to loose by you pirating.