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I thought the whole idea is that the state is also "owned" by those working in it, just as everything else. Isn't waiting for the perfect Utopia to sprout out of thin air and instead focusing on infighting kinda useless and beside the point? I'm confused whether it's me who doesn't understand or "them". So I wan't to ask a guestion here as I did there: how is any of this supposed to work if no state (no ruling authority) can exist? Say maintaining infrastructure in areas where no natural resources, industry for refining or skilled labor for extracting, refining and maintaining naturally exist? I don't believe that any human society can function without some level of authority (thinking legality in disputes and such) and in order to provide everything needed for infrastructure maintenance some authority must tell others where to go with everything.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

The first thing I said was differentiating them. I also don’t think the failures of Romania under Ceausescu should be understated like this. Forcing people out of rural situations and forcing them to set their own houses on fire so that they wouldn’t return to force industrialization doesn’t exactly seem like sound socialist theory to me.