[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."