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Is Authoritarian Communism Really communism? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/socialism@beehaw.org

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I'm sure this has been asked before, so sorry if it was.

But from my very surface level understanding of this, communism is about workers collectively owning the means of production. If a dictator is controlling the means, do the workers really own them? To me it just seems like centralised capitalism.

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you for the suggestion. Its good to learn something new everyday.

Going to read up on EZLN and if you have any suggested reading that would be great as well.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

on Chiapas:

Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government Through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language (Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater)
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity (Ramor Ryan)
Developing Zapatista autonomy : conflict and NGO involvement in rebel Chiapas (Niels Barmeyer)

on Rojava:

Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan (TATORT Kurdistan)
Revolution and Cooperatives: Thoughts about my time with the economic committee in Rojava (anonymous)
Make Rojava Green Again (Internationalist Commune of Rojava)

on Revolutionary Catalonia and various aspects of the anarchism there:

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution (Gaston Leval)
The Anarchist Collectives (ed. Sam Dolgoff)
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution (José Peirats Valls)
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (José Peirats Valls)
To Remember Spain (Murray Bookchin)
Ready for Revolution (Agustín Guillamón)

most of these should be findable on Anna's Archive, or by just googling the title. if not, i can track copies down.

[–] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago

Many thanks