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As an anarcho communist and prolific HN commenter I sigh every time I see his name. Sadly he doesn’t actually understand communism and seems to be stuck in 1980’s anti communist propaganda. For example the sibling comment to this one where he conflates collectivism with being “anti freedom” (lol). At least he’s getting the downvotes he deserves in this thread.

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> Sadly he doesn’t actually understand communism

Maybe you can cite examples of it working?

It's legal to start a commune in the US. Why not give it a try? Report back to us how it goes!

> conflates collectivism with being “anti freedom” (lol)

I do, because collectivism means you do not own the fruits of your labor. I bet you'd be outraged if I helped myself to some of your stuff that I decided you didn't need.

As a non-usian it seems kind of weird to see someone from the US declare that using weapons to keep people working is a non-usian thing to do, when a lot of the news we get from over there is cops killing people, school shootings, stuff about school-prison pipelines, things like that.

Then there are the genocidal militias employed by US companies to keep people from unionising, the genocidal treatment of indonesians, and so on.

As a survivor of communism, I sigh every time I see this ideology that killed countless millions still being pushed in places where other inhuman ideologies (like fascism and its ilk) will attract a swift ban.

> At least he’s getting the downvotes he deserves in this thread.

Feel free to downvote me all you like, Taylor!

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