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nicbou 3 days ago

This has been attempted multiple times and the results were disastrous.

martin-t 3 days ago | parent [-]

A dictator deciding that every village needs to produce X amount of steel instead of actually harvesting their crops and them millions of people dying is exactly the opposite of what I described.

RMS said whenever he promoted software freedom in the US, everybody pattern matched on communism and he had to explain the difference between voluntary and compulsory. This is the same problem.

This is related: https://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-a...

nicbou 3 days ago | parent [-]

I meant cooperatives and other structures at a lower scale. Stalinism was not the only attempts at collectivisation.