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by doombolt
2757 days ago
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How do you disallow ownership of means of production without totalitarianism? Imagine a person has a small auto repair or sewing shop. They will not give up on profit unless you raid them, rinse, repeat. That's what communism is about and you have to confiscate a lot of pre-existing stuff. Yes you can have hybrid model where you leave a lot of small business around, which is no longer communism as we know it since there's a lot of bourgeois people feeling great compared to workers. |
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The same way you disallow ownership of government office without totalitarianism; by making the thing that can't be privately owned publicly controlled via democratic accountability.
> Imagine a person has a small auto repair or sewing shop. They will not give up on profit unless you raid them, rinse, repeat.
Or, imagine a person owns the right to tax a small village. They likewise won't give up the profits unless you raid them, etc.; that doesn't make the transition away from feudalism totalitarian, it just means that changes in social concepts of property rights face resistance from those who have power in the old system that they would not in the new.
> Yes you can have hybrid model where you leave a lot of small business around, which is no longer communism as we know it
It's no longer a system where the only property that exists are what Communism holds to exist by right, which explicitly excludes the means of production, but since virtually every actual “Communist” state did some degree or another of that hybrid model in practice, it absolutely is “Communism as we know it”.
> since there's a lot of bourgeois people feeling great compared to workers.
Well, perhaps some petit bourgeois, but Communists more have problems with them as class allies of the haut bourgeoisie than directly.