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originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: rickynews
While both (main ideologies) have their faults, it's funny to see the absolute denial from those with an ideology that embraces more government control.
originally posted by: buster2010
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: rickynews
While both (main ideologies) have their faults, it's funny to see the absolute denial from those with an ideology that embraces more government control.
Which one would that be? Both sides have passed laws that restrict our freedoms. Even though the left extended it you have to give credit to the right for passing the patriot act which essentially turned our nation into a police state.
Anarchist communism[1] (also known as anarcho-communism, free communism, libertarian communism,[2][3][4][5][6] and communist anarchism[7][8]) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wages and private property (while retaining respect for personal property),[9] and in favor of common ownership of the means of production,[10][11] direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".[12][13]
Some forms of anarchist communism such as insurrectionary anarchism are strongly influenced by egoism and radical individualism, believing anarcho-communism is the best social system for the realization of individual freedom.[14][15][16][17] Some anarcho-communists view anarcho-communism as a way of reconciling the opposition between the individual and society.[18][19][20][21][22]
Anarcho-communism developed out of radical socialist currents after the French Revolution[23][24] but was first formulated as such in the Italian section of the First International.[25] The theoretical work of Peter Kropotkin took importance later as it expanded and developed pro-organizationalist and insurrectionary anti-organizationalist sections.[26]
To date, the best-known examples of an anarchist communist society (i.e., established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon), are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution[27] and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution. Through the efforts and influence of the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936 anarchist communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia, as well as in the stronghold of Anarchist Catalonia before being crushed by the combined forces of the regime that won the war, Hitler, Mussolini, Spanish Communist Party repression (backed by the USSR) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist countries and the Second Spanish Republic itself.[28] During the Russian Revolution, anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend—through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine—anarchist communism in the Free Territory of the Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: BrianFlanders
There's more than one form of Communism. Collectivists can easily be libertarian.
What I have found is that if you talk to them at length, they're all the same and if they get their way, they will all converge on the same focal point and at that time, there will be no question what they're about.
originally posted by: Exitt
This article is for the common people. Smart ones know the elite isn't, has never been and never will be left or right, Jewish or christian, black or white. They believe in money only and are therefore - Elite. We know nothing about them, except if you join their ranks.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Very confusing indeed, since all authoritarian and totalitarian concepts are Left Wing.
The further Right ya go, the less government interferences happen.
Fascism is Left Wing.
originally posted by: rickynews
originally posted by: Exitt
This article is for the common people. Smart ones know the elite isn't, has never been and never will be left or right, Jewish or christian, black or white. They believe in money only and are therefore - Elite. We know nothing about them, except if you join their ranks.
Yet, time and time again, we only hear that Republicans or Conservatives are the so-called Illuminati...
originally posted by: xuenchen
This might help you understand in simpler terms.
originally posted by: Greven
originally posted by: xuenchen
This might help you understand in simpler terms.
Hilarious.
I have a B.A. in Political Science (and a B.S. in Computer Science). I actually studied this stuff for four years. I don't need your simplistic and misguided ideas for how the world works.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: xuenchen
Yeah. It's a riot.
Too bad it's the actual horse-puck the American right-wingers are trying to sell, these days.
Good show though.