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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
personally I don't think that anarcho-communism actually can exist as a philosophy. It's a contradiction in terms. By it's very nature communism requires the use of force by the state in order to take the product of one persons labor and distribute it to others. That is fundamentally apposed the the principles of anarchy, which is about freedom from any all powerful state.
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Spain 1930s. Kibbutz system in Israel. There are more examples of anarchism that there is of communism.
I don't want to insult you but it's obvious you haven't read the Communist Manifesto, the end goal is the means of production in the hands of the masses not the means of production in the hands of the state. The system you describe sounds like the Soviet Union, Vietnam or Cuba which aren't communist at all (see Chomsky), just like the US isn't capitalist.
I don't hold Marx in the same esteem as some communists do; I don't believe in the transitional period where the power is temporarily held by the state as history shows it is never handed back.
I very briefly subscribed to the Hayek school of thinking, but when you try and apply such a theory to things like healthcare, it's clear it would never work. So I went one stage further and concluded that it was capitalism itself that is broken.