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So communism is when council communism (understandable), anarchism (huh?) and german idealism (wtf)?

Lenin also has no right to be on the same side as people who took and bastardized his work.....

Even worse is when the right one also has Putin, the leader of the Iranian regime, etc. (cough cough Dessalines)

You might be conflating anarcho socialists with communists there.

True. And its sad

Putting Gonzalo under Castro, and Pol Pot above Trotsky, Kim Jong Il as the connector between Pol Pot and Mao

This is bait

How is this more bad than capitalism we already have?

Tbh, I think my anarchist friends here would find a lot to appreciate in Mao.

I once heard Maoism jokingly described as "Anarcho-Stalinism" and that comes from Mao's insistence, via The Mass Line and the Cultural Revolution, that the party should always root itself in the masses, and that the masses, in turn, should act as a check on the party's petty bourgeois elements.

He's very interested in the dialectical relationship between top-down and bottom-up structures in revolution,and how they interact

That is because honestly, communism is a shit system

Stop the writing, hear me out

Centralized plan economies never worked well and then there is that part where you kind of have to force everyone at gun point, become communist or we'll send in the chekists to murder you and your family. Aahh, the good old little details you never hear about in pro Communism communities where they all call eachother comrade for some weirdo reason

Look, capitalism as we have it now sucks donkey balls too, I doubt there are many that would deny that. However, capitalism is basically allowing free trading, and it's fucking powerful in generating Wealth. The problem is that that wealth always ends up in the hands of a tiny set of assholes

So how about this: we keep capitalism, and implement wealth caps. Say, 1 million. Nobody is allowed to have a networth of over 1M, the rest goes 100% to taxes. We still have the normal income tax, and taxes on bought goods, but the wealth cap ensured that nobody gets too rich

This has a huge amount of implications. Governments get a huge influx of funds that they can use to fund that giant socialist system that the communists want. That can fund free healthcare, free education, maybe (probably) even universal basic income.

Nobody would be too rich, nobody would be poor. Companies can refocus back on quality because cutting edges to get that extra short term billion dollars won't do anything anymore because you can't get any worth out of it over a million.

Want to own a billion dollar company? Well sure! Add at least 1000 shareholders that can invest a million. But they can't, they also probably want to own something next to a company, I don't know, a house? So likely you can only invest about 500K into a company so now you got 2000 owners for a company that can employ about 2000 employees. See where I'm going with this? It's basically communism without thebad parts of communism

Income taxes? Add a bunch mor brackets, with the final one of course being 1M with 100% tax. Unemployed? 0% income tax and the government pays you an income. It won't be super much but more than enough to survive and live comfortable. If you're okay like that, then don't work. We produce enough without requiring everyone to work 5 days a week. With automation skyrocketing, we can work less and less. Want to feel productive and work 5 days a week on your own little store? By all means, do as you like.

It's a simple change to the existing world, a single rule from which the rest flows out

Nobody would be too rich anymore, nobody would be uber powerful to fuck others over.

I like this idea. Obviously. This is a world that I would live in happily. I'm sure there are loads of little details that need working out, I'm sure that the rather arbitrary 1M might have to be different, depent on inflation, etc, but smarter people than me can worn on that.

To those that come with "1M net worth is not enough I need to retire", remember that the government can take care of that. Everybody gets their pension. Yes,we can even base it on how much you made. Yes, some people will be slightly richer than others, but only slightly, and I'm fine with that. You don't need 100M stashed away in funds to be able to retire. A 1M net worth is a single, normal sized home, a car, a bunch of things like clothes on your back and you still got lots left. Big family? Well, both the parents can own part of the home, so now you can buy a home twice the size.

Talking about housing; everything and their mother seems to be overvalued these days. The value of a product should be the cost of making said product (usually comes down to how much humans worked on it) plus a little bit of profit on top of that. A small normal apartment already costing multi million dollars is insanity.

Add a few more simple rules: nobody can own over two homes, companies cannot own homes. With this we could let housing prices cool down to normal.

Add a rule where governments have to find independent press funding organisations that can pay news organizations to make actual independent and reliable news. The money for it will be there, use it. Now we can just wat h the news without the "PLEEAASE PAY US WERE DYING FROM HUNGER" or alternatively having to read pure propaganda

I don't know, but to me it seems that the biggest problem that this works has right now is that we never bothered to put some caps in certain functions in our societies and that is just plain dumb. I may be thinking too simple here, but these simple caps and rules? I believe they could work, I believe in a world that could function like that.

Yes, I'm sure there will be cheaters, there always will be. However, a cheater would have a net worth of 2M and would be caught and jailed. Nobody gets to have a 700 billion dollar net worth anynore, nobody gets to be ultra powerful