[ben_w]

I've only seen half the stuff you're calling "IP communism", but many are inspired by the "fully automated luxury gay space communism" meme, so sure :)

> I don't believe in communism and I think anarchocapitalism is maybe as bad as communism.

I've met both, and yup; though the communists seemed more sociable, neither could really understand that the other existed except as caricature.

> If you think certifications are just consumer protection then you are missing big part of the picture.

I was unsure if I should have written "also" in that sentence; but I didn't write "just" ;)

[throwaway290]

> fully automated luxury gay space communism

Thanks, TIL!

Communists may be sociable but being a Russian I don't have a good impression from the ideology.

[ben_w]

Ah, understood :)

FWIW, I'm fairly sure the communists I know have a blind spot for all the failures of communist governments and not just the USSR's failures, they put Marx on a pedestal and insist the evidence to the contrary doesn't count somehow.

As I see equivalent blind spots in anarchocapitalism (any example of bad outcomes is dismissed as "not real free market"), that's why I don't think either communism or anarchocapitalism works.