I fled Reddit due to the authoritarian mod craziness, but Lemmy.world seems infested with too much Communist craziness. I’m leftist, but communism is idiocy. Is there an instance that leans more democratic socialist but refrains from going off the deep end?

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Hexbear supports AES, that’s nowhere near the same as thinking “communism means supporting dictatorships.” It’s far easier to find people that have actually read theory on Hexbear than in most other instances on the fediverse.

        • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyz
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          19 hours ago

          Why aren’t the Haudenosaunee on that list? Isn’t that a bit racist?

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            19 hours ago

            Tribal societies that don’t have advanced industrialization have a separate Mode of Production from “Socialism” in the Marxian sense. No racism at all.

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              19 hours ago

              Yeah, but on the other hand, socialism is when the people own the means of production, and the Haudenosaunee have/had way more of that than USSR and China.

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                19 hours ago

                I disagree, tribal societies could only have that kind of relation by virtue of being small. In the age of modern industry, this is no longer feasible while maintaining large-scale manufacturing.

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                    19 hours ago

                    I don’t really know what you mean, here. Do you think we can use the same methods of small, communal tribes as organization with mass manufacturing and complex supply chains? I would argue that society changed the methods of organization to better fit the level of technological process, and not out of any individual will.