I will understand one day what this incident was!!!11!!1111!111one!!!

The website seems to have a big problem with trying to at least show the link of the video (please search on Youtube for “David GRAEBER: We are already communists”). Which is unfortunate because it does kind of explain in directly what communism is about (in short, its not what you think)



State power is not communism. In fact communism, as a theoretical concept, has nothing to do with goverment per se. This can be easily illustarted by the existence of anarchocommunism, again as a theoretical concept (which brings the question, if communism is about state ownership and anarchism is about abolishing permanent relationships of unequal power, the state being the biggest example of this, then what could an anarcho-communist system possibly be? A state, which has been abolished, to own the means of production? Of course thats not what it is!)

There is an understandable reason why people confuse communism to mean, favoring state power over private power, and that has mostly to do with the cold war. In the context of which, the 2 largest propaganda machines in the world (that of the United States and that of the Soviet Union) were trying to portray the USSR as a communist country for oposite reasons. And then, of course people would use that word in order to identify countries with similar countries. I think this meaning of the word should be discarded, since not only it is not particularly useful, but its actually discouraging people from exploring what this seemingly scary thing is about. In fact, there are videos on Youtube where some communists in discuise go around in a Trump rally and ask Trump supporters if they agree with a number of points, without telling them that these are communist points (which they were!). The irony is that most people there agreed with it! Thats to illustrate the confusion around this topic.

Mind you, im an anarcho-communist myself, im familiar with all that.

Anyways, i wanted to say a few things about your points which i find interesting.
You say you want to plant stuff. I assume you live in a house in the typical american suburbia, do correct me if im wrong. This means you propably have a fair amount of ground-room in your property. But furthermore, your Neighbors propably also do! I would encourage you then to try your best to organized them all in some sort of community and turn whoever-is-ins' gardens into farms of all short.

If i were in your position i would love to do this kind of thing. Unfortunately though i live with my parents, and although we have a balcony, they refuse to do anything good with it. Its just emtpy..

If you can do this, it might be a good idea to get a bicycle (and modify it so it can carry some stuff, a basket on the front, maybe two baskets left and right of the back weel). If the roads are safe enough, and the distances you usually go, within reach, you will save, possibly a thousand dolars a year! The negative side of this is that in order for it to work, it requires a level of fitness that might make you struggle at first, but with exercise you will overcome it fairly quickly!

And i mostly agree with you, that the goverment isnt really the answer. Although for seperate reasons, propably.

I think the causes you listed in your reply do boil down to the corporations' profit motif and the general dependence on markets to which the population is subject.

I would like to drive one of your points further too! We all have some power. And if this power is combined into collective power, miracles can happen! A lot of grassroots organizations exist already, although it might be extremely hard to find them if you start from skratch. Usually they can be found through ansrchist cycles. If you connect with some local ones, they will definetely be a great boost to your efforts.

Lastly i want to mention permaculture. It is extremely useful when it comes to anything like farming and gardening, and everything in between! There is a large Youtube channel about permaculture called “Andrew Millison”, i strongly recomend to you, and anyone else who is interested in gardening and/or self-sufficiency! 🙂

The supply will go down if the cost of production goes up, while prices remain fixed. If the cost of production (what needs to be done for one unit of out put) remains more or less the same, then the supply of food will remain more or less the same. A solution for this, is a price & wage freeze will stop any inflation the moment it is implemented. Nixon did this and it was sucesfull! It did have side-effects but it immedientaly stopped the inflation, and economic activity remained pretty stable.

But your point is of concern only in a market economy. If the production and distribution of food were to be planned by the state, based on the total needs for food of the population that it governs (plus some extra to be safe) meaning, state enterprises that have the priority of output (and not profits from sales) then the issue youre proposing simply does not exist.
There are other issues in that case, notably that the state will have a lot of power in its hands and may decide to use it to coerse people to do all short of things, but thats a completely seperate issue.

To deal with it, nontheless, i want to begin by saying that there is no easy solution for this. All solutions are beyond the comfort zone of the people, so they will simply not vote for them. They are more likely to even self destruct that way. Either they will have to be brave and at least try to learn what theory is beyond neoliberalism (and i dont care if it carries the tag "progressive" or "concervative" because either of them is neoliberalism) or the solution will have to be enacted without popular consent (which limits how much they can be scaled up).

The solution i would prefer requires basically a complete overhall of the political economy (which is what makes it hard). I think that the production of goods and services should happen within worker cooperatives (that is to abolish the dychotomy of employers vs employees) and those cooperatives should operate in the context of a bottom-up planned economy. Decision making should happen through debates that will follow the Hegelian dialectic, not majority voting. And the primary principle should be the "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

This is possible and we know because it is already done! Here is a good video that explains this: [img]https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/IcK7rkajHKE/default.jpg' alt='' oncontextmenu='alert("This image is copyright © protected"); return false;'>[/img]

There are lots of false arguments against it, but i want you to understand that all the people who say "this is impossible" or "it can never be done in a large scale" are people who also think that free will is a reality. And our entier political system has been based on this hypothesis, which has never been proved to be true. In fact psychology exists because the oposite is true. Peoples' wills are explainable, to some heavy degree, therefore deterministic. If someone chooses to believe whatever is more comfortable to accept, rather than first analyze whats actually going and then conclude, then that person is delusional.

To conclude, most people who would opose the proposal i made, not on the basis that its difficult but on the basis that its impossible, that we should not even attempt to get to it, are either delusional or try to delude you.


Sorry if i sound harsh but this topic is handled by people based on what they believe, which are fantasies and lies, not reality. And we need, as in any other science, to examine reality. Not to decide based on a fantasy.

As all commodities, food is priced by business owners, because those are the people who in our current economic system have the power to do that! In other words, business owners are responsible for the prices that you see, because it is them who decide either how much you will be charged for a commodity, or what is the way in which this decision is handled (or both). Something to note, in the USA, business owners constitute roughly 3%.

So, why do business owners increase their prices? That is pretty simple! They will do that if and when this is the best way to increase or protect their profits. The other side of this is the ever-increasing cost of living that everyone other than the business owners experience! Here you can notice a dichotomy between business owners and non-business owners (with the majority of the second group being workers / employees)

Then there is the market issue. Markets can be seen as mechanism with which shortages are handled. When there is a shortage of a commodity, people start to bid up the price of it, indirectly (the business owner does this directly, following the demand vs the supply that they see). As the prices go up, the people that are poor start to drop out because they can no longer afford it. Because of this, less people are interested in that commodity, so at some point the remaining people become few enough to be able to be satisfied by the supply of that commodity.

The above are two key chatacteristics of a capitalist system. Food simply does not get a pass, so long as its production and distribution is done in the context of the private sector. (Theoretically it can be done in the context of state, or public, sector with the most notable example of this being the Soviet Union).

The conversation of how all the above can be fixed is much of the essense of socialism.

Well, you pose a question that if taken litteraly, is not very helpfull. Odds are, with so many people, given that there is a variety of, there are definetely people who can be described, or at least are similar to the description you gave.

(Thats not a very helpfull question to ask, because its something that anyone can figure out on their own, no need to ask this specific question to other people, etc)

Im suspecting, however that youre trying to get to a different point however, like... How common are they, or how to uproach them maybe. Am i correct on this?

I think there is quite a paradox here. If you want friends here, in the majority of interactions it seems that basically kink talk / sexchat is needed, otherwise the interaction will not last a few minutes! Which means its really hard to have an interaction that will satisfy needs, other that sexual ones.
(here i dont even consider people who will ask you for money as these are generaly speaking not very genuine interactions when they appear as something other than that)

I have more bad news, unfortunately. As our society develops the way it does, it appears that less and less people are interested in anything other than what maximizes shallow satisfactions. (You can feel the pleasure of an orgasm the moment you have it, unlike having a long discussion about an interesting topic only to reach at the very end a satisfying conclusion, after all)
Also Narcissism is a huge trend, with possibly up to 50%, maybe more, of the population (at least in the USA) being Narcissists to the point that it is dangerous for your mental health to interact with them.

But nontheless there are good people out there. Its hard to find them, but there are!

As far as im concerned about discord servers, the one that is most likely unfamiliar to you, is one that had to do with a community called "Hang Gang" which had been created by Feemalefeederheaven. They had a discord, but i think it has been deleted since. Or maybe i was kicked out but i really doubt that. FFH herself told me that she had abandoned that community because it grew too much for its own good (basically it was too big to moderate it).

Anyways, thats not super helpfull i guess but its what piece of knowledge i can offer.

This is a simingly simple question but i have difficulty with answering it in a similarly simple manner. I dont think that good things are just an absence of bad things (ie. Getting off work early is not a good thing, but rather its a not-bad thing. Which is great and opens up the space for good things to happen but i dont think we should categorise it as a good thing itself). And i want to make that distinction between things that are not bad and things that are actually good! For example a hug is a good thing! A calm moment, in the sense of a moment that doesnt have rush, anxiety, horror etc, is not a good thing itself its only a not bad thing. People might look at it that way but thats only when they compare things. So its not very objective.

Now, having said that, right now its morning for me, therefore not much has happened yet. But i can tell you in more general. It doesnt necesarily have to be something that happened today after all, if im guessing correctly what your motivations were for writing this post!

What good things have happened in my life recently? I already mentioned i managed to force my parents to allow me to cook lunch for the first time ever. It was a learning experience for me and i loved that!
Other than that, i went out with friends and had a first discussion about an organization im trying to build up. And it was very interesting because we talked quite a lot about the structure that it should have! (most creative conversation i ever had, basically)
An other thing is that my thesis, on which i have been puting a lot of effort, is finally coming together! Which is incredibly satisfying and will also serve as a motivation for future projects!
And a final thing, but one that has happened quite a few months ago, is that i finally had the curage to ask a colleage of mine to hang out, and theyre now a very good friend of mine!

I should also now mention a paradox. You just made my day better, which is also a good thing! Im now more motivated to work on great things! Thank you! ☺️

Thats amazing!!

A few weeks ago i managed to litteraly rebel and force my parents to allow me to cook lunch (spaggeti!) for the first time ever! I was really proud of that and the entier family liked it a lot!

Uhm, could i ask you a few, mostly phylosophical, things?