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every time someone qualifies capitalism (”late capitalism”, “unfettered capitalism” etc) it makes me uncomfortable because like, do you think early capitalism was good? would a few fetters fix this shithole? i think not. every conceivable form of capitalism is fucking evil and should be abolished.

I don’t think early capitalism was good, however I think there’s a material difference between early and late capitalist conditions (early capitalism meant certain policies that allowed for primitive acquisition and so on, which were also horrible in their own special evil terrible way) just like there was early and late feudalism… otherwise tho, yeah

When it comes to systems of power tho, what is “good”? I think we can qualify capitalism in the sense that it has evolved to be even more rapacious in nature recently but it’s a very old saying that every system of power is the worst thing since the one that came before it.

And I guess that brings me to my question: is a utopia (meaning the world/systems of power/trade systems that are not exploitative of anyone) even possible for a large population of human beings?

I mean as an anarcho-communist I have to believe so.  Humans are ingenious and adaptable creatures.  Surely we can do better than this.

Totally agreed we can do better! I guess I haven’t heard/read/seen (and this could just be ignorance on my part) any system of power to replace what we have…

I’m into like Malatesta/Kropotkin, very direct democracy, and work places being controlled democratically by the workers.

There have been some interesting experiments in this direction (namely Catalonia during the Spanish civil war, which was crushed by the fascists)

thanks for sharing! i will really have to look more in depth!

i just feel like direct democracy and ”cooperatism” can’t work on extraordinarily large populations like the US or China. If we had a direct democracy tomorrow for all of the US instead of a democratic republic, our political system would freeze, no question. And how could we prevent the majority from dominating the few?

A lot of the populations I’ve read about that are truly free from capitalism and all the other psycho/political/sexual/monetary/social garbage that comes with it were no more than 500 people…

Well they managed a form of that in revolutionary spain (delegates sent from unions and regional councils voting only how they were specifically told and then like experts in given fields being electable for some stuff, but also very easily removed).

With technology it’s easier than ever to run something very democratically and well I don’t think we exactly have a sterling system for preventing the many from dominating the few at the moment.  I think creating a culture that fosters solidarity with one another is an important part of the work needed to make something like this work and is really the only possible solution.

But yeah generally letting workers run their own work places has been very effecient when it’s been done.