Thanks for that link. Were folks to actually read it, I reckon they'd have to agree that there simply hasn't been any nation that actually practiced Communism, ever.
I reckon Goldman's characterization of real Communism as anarchist and libertarian in nature would cause cognitive dissonance to bug the eyes of true believers in Capitalism as the standard bearer of liberty!
Those that rule by force had to sully the term in the minds of the followers, or they would defect to freedom.
Ergo, Marx is the face of 'communism' rather than Bakunin.
Why 'communism' is what happened in Russia when even the name USSR said it was socialist and not communist.
Oh, and then there is this report, from the scene by the losing team, not all history is written by the winner.
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Voline sounds like a man immersed in a fervid sociological pot, boiling over with injustice and ideas. I will relish the read! Thanks!
History from the point of an objective observer is rare indeed.
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If you only accept ideas that come from within your bubble, you have no hope at finding freedom, imo.
You have read Howard Zinn?
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I have not. I have heard of him. "The People's History of the United States", or am I confusing him with another author I haven't read =p
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Yes. I linked to it.
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