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  • HStone32@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t understand the comparisons people make between OSS and comunism. Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law. OSS’s emhasis on freedom, choice, and the lack of any kind of governing authrorty or social dogma, as well as the inherent trust in the majority public to choose the right (to donate or contribute) has a lot more in common with liberalism than comunism.

    • bishbosh@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Just a heads up, you were lied to about what communism means.

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              24 hours ago

              Mostly because it’s dependent on who told you “Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law.”

              A good working definition of the ideas of communism is democracy of the work place and the economy. As it stands work places are dictatorships run by bosses that effectively have unilateral control over all choices of the company. Socialism and communism are built on the idea since workers are the ones actually doing the work that make the money and bare the brunt of the choices, they should be the ones making the choices.

              Really it’s actually capitalism that supposes people are too dumb to make their own choices or know how a business is run, and thus shouldn’t have say over company choices.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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      1 day ago

      Communism is a classless stateless moneyless society based on the principle of “from each according to ability, to each according to need”

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      It’s a joke because Bill Gates once called it that. Nobody actually thinks that other than some tech bros that are high from huffing their own farts.

    • freebee@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      There is a vast difference between communism the theory and communism the real world application as it occured in 20th century.

    • november@lemmy.vg
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      20 hours ago

      Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law.

      You know capitalist nations also have laws, right…?

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
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      3 hours ago

      Your understanding of communist ideas are on a par on your spelling of it.