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mofongo wrote

Despite what many claim, there's not divide between individualism and communism. I became interested in all this by personal desire, and greed; mutual well being came second.

https://raddle.me/f/Socialism/28426/marx-individualist-communist-excerpts-on-the-individual-karl

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ziq wrote (edited )

Depends on the communism. Egoist communism, sure. But most communists are staunch collectivists, and the practice of communism has a lot more weight than the theory (and there can be so many different interpretations of theory, too). It's safe to say most people have interpreted communism as authoritarian and collectivist, rightly or wrongly. Politics and language don't remain stagnant, and there's no way to really throw out 100 years of missteps; the history of communism can't be erased. It's all part of communism now, and whatever it was intended to be while Marx was alive; before the theory was put into practice, isn't what it is in 2018, or what it will be in 2118.

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ziq wrote

I look forward to sleep most of all.

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Foreheader wrote

Egoist communism is a thing, here is a reading list with some stuff on it. When Engels recommended The Unique and his property to Marx he actually intended to accept egoism as a basis for communism. Marx of course didn't think so and proceeded to write The German Ideology.

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mofongo wrote

The interesting thing about Marx and his contemporaries was his most common complain. He thought Feuerback, Max Stirner, Proudhon and others did not always went far enough on their conclusions and on many occasions remained limited in the very same framework they were trying to critique.

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