Is it possible for a communist society to exist without dictatorship or totalitarianism?
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Answer (1 of 15): It’s fully possible for a communist society to be non-dictatorial, as soon as someone figures out how to abolish the private property on the means of production without concentrating power. During the first months of the Soviet rule in 1917–1918, the revolutionary romantics wit...

I would like to have a real discussion on how to prevent an authoritative communist economy or one without the present of a dictatorship. The major reason (in my opinion) why communism doesn’t work is because of greed and power, to many individuals want to manipulate and control the populace. How can we prevent a dictatorship rule and still have genuine communism. Even if you actually broke up cities, towns, municipals into “Communes” you still have the human emotion of jealously and selfishness. I love the idea of Communism and I have wrote a ton on the subject but I can’t come up with the idea of “protection” from itself.

I like how Godfree Roberts stated this https://www.quora.com/profile/Godfree-Roberts

  • nixfreakOP
    1•2 years ago

    Great post , thank you for this. I will keep working on this idea. The reason “why decentralized” is because if its “Central” I can take over it , decentralized meaning I can’t especially using a blockchain or and immutable database.

    • Polski Femboy
      1•2 years ago

      Taking over a centralized thing might be difficult when all big actors are taken out of an equation, for example no big companies existing and ruining something centralized we all used to love. Example being GitHub getting constantly worse since Microsoft acquired it, they did so legally and didn’t have to fight GitHub for it which is a problem of capitalist countries, thus decentralization gains popularity as to protect ourselves from such threats. This is inherently good! But after removing these malefactors, centralized systems would pretty much be the better option for safety as well productivity.

      Also just in case, centralized doesn’t mean a single system, or in a single place. But in control of a group or a set of groups but still not available to just anyone to change and or modify.

      Also, I’m always happy to help.

      • nixfreakOP
        1•2 years ago

        I’m not worried about “big companies FANG” with centralized systems. I am more worried about a “centralized place to hack”. It’s almost a 10x advantage to takeover a centralized server (or server farm) then it is to via P2P. Unless I can (theory) infect one client to distribute a virus and that’s even if the security controls are the same for all clients. Regardless of controls for a centralized system , you have too many bugs , and if that server software isn’t modular it only take one RCE exploit for me to own it (in theory).