RE: What is Your Political Philosophy
January 7, 2014 at 2:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2014 at 2:17 pm by EgoRaptor.)
(January 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm)Gish Wrote:I'm not a Marxist, Marx has just greatly influenced me.(January 7, 2014 at 1:08 pm)MarxRaptor Wrote: What is incoherent about market communism?
Communism is more than just the abolition the private ownership of capital goods. Goods are distributed via planning. The system that you seem to be advocating looks more like market socialism, in which private ownership of capital goods is abolished, but goods are allocated on a free-market. Workers form democratic co-ops as opposed to communes.
When I was a socialist, I saw communism as a form of usury, which was my problem with capitalism. Since then, I have rejected the labour theory of value and have turned over to the dark side.
Honestly, you have more in common than with Benjamin Tucker and Pierre Proudhon than you do with Marx.
Karl Marx Wrote:The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Also, my reasons for rejecting orthodox Marxism seem much different than yours. I rejected it as I cam to see egoism as more desirable than altruism. I now believe in a more egoist form of communism, & I also read about the post-left anarchists & they appeal to me.
