[bira]

Do you realize that you contradict yourself? You claim to be a communist yet you expect to be free enough to express yourself and choose what to build? Discuss politics and being free to disagree in a communist state?? You either weren't thaught XXth century history at school or you are very confused. Saying you are communist is like saying you are a nazist, it makes no sense. IMO you are confused.

[EngManagerIsMe]

There are many flavors of communist, my friend. You might be familiar with Stalinism and Soviet/Maoist communism -- the authoritarian forms of communism that dominated the use of the word. I am not a fan of those, and indeed do not consider myself a Stalinist.

But there are other types of communism, in both theory and practice, that do not require authoritarianism. I'm comfortable in asserting that I'm fairly well read on different histories and theories -- from the anarchist writings of Kropotkin and practiced in communes in Europe in the early 20th century, to democratic workers councils, to neoMarxist works.

I'm more than happy to discuss the topic in more depth, and I think it might be interesting to some folks on HN to have a communist who isn't interested in petty sniping or scoring political points, but that conversation has to start with something other than "You are a confused Nazi."

[another_story]

Can you can disagree with them without being rude? You back up nothing that you say with anything coherent and then compare their beliefs to Nazism.