Ask an Anarcho-Communist

I’ve recently discovered the IAmA part of reddit which is basically a place for people to declare some kind of expertise or classification and allow people to ask whatever is on their mind on this particular concept. I’ve decided to see what kind of questions people might have for an Anarcho-Communist so I’ve made up a new thread.

There’s quite a few interesting questions already and people seem to have less initial hostility than I imagined. This is good. It shows that Anarcho-Communism (as opposed to simply ‘Communism’ which is basically the same thing anyway,

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Quote of the Day: Red Terror VS Stalinist Totalitarianism

Quoth Slavoj Zizek:

Even in the most violent phases of the Leninist dictatorship, when those who opposed the revolution were brutally deprived of their right to (public free) speech, they were not deprived of their right to silence: they were allowed to withdraw into inner exile. [...]For Stalinism, however, even such silence resonated too much. Not only were masses of people required to show their support by attending big public rallies, artists and scientists also had to compromise themselves by participating in active measures such as signing official proclamations, or paying lip-service to Stalin and the official Marxism. If, in

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My comments elsewhere

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  • 02.07 Quote of the day: P2P Anarcho-Communism

    Quoth DaydreamNation

    Anarcho-communism is a bit like p2p data transfers. When everyone has a file and a proper system to check the integrity of their files (md5), one bad seeder doesn’t ruin the file for everyone.

    I like :)

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  • 29.06 Bumming out

    The Barefoot Bum’s slum seems to be suddenly closed. Anyone have any theories as for why? If he’d closed it himself I’d expect the actual content to remain for archival purposes rather than being removed.

  • 24.06 Bumming Mutualism

    The Barefoot Bum has started reading and analyzing the Kevin Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. This should be interesting. Larry generally is very sharp when it comes to such issues so if this is the first part of a series, it will be something to follow closely.


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