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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

This is generally wrong, though. Communist countries have dramatically democratized society, it works better at large scale if we are speaking of Marxian Communism because that's the Marxist reason for Communism to begin with. Competition centralizes, so in the future it must be publicly owned and planned. This is the basis of Scientific Socialism, primitive Communism is not the same as the post-Socialist Communism, which must be large-scale as production increases in complexity.

Pol Pot wasn't even a Communist.

[–] ambidexterity@lemmy.world 0 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

Primitive communism didn't exist btw

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)

Tribal societies existed without classes or trade, they largely pooled together resources.

[–] ambidexterity@lemmy.world 0 points 6 minutes ago (1 children)

Tribal societies also hunted and killed each other for food. I that's what you call communism, then sure 👍

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 minutes ago

Primitive Communism isn't something to emulate, but a historical formation of society.