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• jedimind64 wrote:
  13 days ago

  ugh, communism is so gay. i thank god everyday for the gift of capitalism. get money.

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• Talibantastic wrote:
  September 2009

  comrades...

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• AgeofGrunge wrote:
  July 2009

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• gregass wrote:
  June 2009

  Who like R.D.F, Subhumans, P.A.I.N, etc. I need more music along these veins.

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• TheRoses wrote:
  April 2009

  bollox.

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• fenixk19 wrote:
  March 2009

  Hello, Comrades!

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• skumbot wrote:
  February 2009

  Libertarian Communism isn't about creating "libertarian communist" nations or countries, but the abolition of states as part of the process of creating a self-managed society. This isn't something to be held over the heads of people after the "withering away" of the state, but a real goal. Libertarian Communis, is another term for socialist anarchism. An "anti-capitalist state" is an oxymoron, as the modern state is both a prerequisite and necessity for the functioning of capitalism ( as can be seen currently ). Libertarian communists see state socialist regimes (such as Cuba, former USSR etc) as being forms of state capitalism, in which the fundamendal aspects of capitalism remain, with the state as universal employer. Wage labour, capital, money, property etc still exist, as does class struggle. Seriously, its much better to ask questions at libcom.org, this group is just a spin-off from that site. Forums here: http://libcom.org/forums

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• moismyname wrote:
  February 2009

  ...and the more it will depend on authoritarianism to deal with that. history shows that authoritarian states don't usually decrease authoritarianism on their own, and in the few cases that has happened, the opposition have always used their new freedom to take over. that's why i don't believe in revolution, i believe in reformism, and i believe that the only way to effectively beat capitalism is by using it's own main weapon: efficiency. take an average, liberal (in the european sense of the word), democratic western constitution, make a few slight adjustments to allow a legal status and financing system for worker-controlled enterprises and let them compete with traditional capitalist companies in a (fairly) free market. as long as a public financing system is guaranteed and efficient enough to get it's money back, the prospect of profit-sharing will draw the more motivated and diligent workers, leaving companies based on private capital to die out. that's how i see it, anyway.

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• moismyname wrote:
  February 2009

  if you establish a proclaimed anti-capitalist state, you will always have capitalist states denouncing, boycotting and sabotaging you, simply because they feel threatened. this is true for any anti-capitalist state, whether communist, libertarian socialist or whatever. a world-wide revolution sounds good, but revolutionaries world-wide can't even agree on the economic-political system that is be introduced, let alone get together to pull off a stunt like that. even if they could, at this time in history they would not have the support of the population, because people (especially those in economically powerful nations, which are the ones that count) are simply too compliant with what they know and too afraid of change. so they would have to use authoritarianism as a means to achieve their goals. once authoritarianism has established itself within a system, it is pretty much impossible to get it back out: the more authoritarian a system is, the more internal opposition it will have...

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• tc-obo wrote:
  February 2009

  Libertarian communism could not exist in a world where some nations are still capitalist - and neither could any other form of communism.

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• deepfriedbrain wrote:
  January 2009

  http://www.last.fm/group/Prison+Abolition

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• deepfriedbrain wrote:
  January 2009

  ok but then riddle me this... how could libertarian communism exist in a multi-national context where some nations are capitalist? No nation, especially in this day and age is self sufficient, so how would a libertarian communist country open its borders for trade while maintaining a closed egalitarian society? It's what many economists argued was the fall of the Soviet Union... of course if a Communist revolution actually reaches its theoretical goal: the destruction of worldwide capitalism and the abolition of the wage system... then the need for a State, as we define it in modern contexts, is no more. Then perhaps you'd have what you call Libertarian Communism? Although Anarcho Communism or Syndicalism I think are better names for the red and black... @franko-gap: you're right, in the USA everything is politically backward (after all, the right wingers are "red" and labor day is in September!!) and I realize I misunderstood the use of "libertarian."

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• franko-gap wrote:
  December 2008

  @ deepfriedbrain Listen, Marxist! :-p After the fall of Paris Commune in France were forbidden all kind of socialist, and especially anarchist organization. So the anarchist organizations started to name themselves in different ways - libertarian was one of them. So, in Europe and, for what I know, in most of the world, the word is more-less a synonym for anarchism. Libertarian (anarchist) communism is the ideal advocated by Kropotkin and many other revolutionaries till today. In USA, however, everything is upside-down and a political ignorance prevails: Obama a leftist? Come on, people! You can't be SO stupid... So in USA libertarian means something different than in the rest of the world... :-/ Any politically educated human will notice the cretinism of your cited Reagan: liberalism (the classic one, not the new economic market-liberalism) is the opposed of conservativism; and libertarianism is beyond liberalism, it is more radical, it is revolutionary.

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• franko-gap wrote:
  December 2008

  Fuk mp3s! I want Oggs! Free software in a free society. ;-)

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• skumbot wrote:
  December 2008

  Quoting Friedrich von Hayek. Epic fail. Heres a good start. http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secI1.html

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• dyingdreams wrote:
  December 2008

  You guys have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about, at all. Anti-Socialism

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• xSANJITx wrote:
  October 2008

  An oxymoron, deepfriedbrain? LIBERTARIANISM: belief that freedom of action and thought should be respected. COMMUNISM: socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general. LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM: socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general, in which freedom of action and thought are respected.

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• skumbot wrote:
  September 2008

  Hiya. This is Django from the boards.

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• rknrkn wrote:
  August 2008

  yeah!! finally good music in the top weekly top thing

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• leavingtaganka wrote:
  August 2008

  oo err

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