I see landlords described here as an inherently capitalist and exploitative class that society simply doesn't need. But China presents an interesting problem for that argument.

Mao's government went so far as to violently eliminate the traditional landlord class during land reform. Urban land in China is still state-owned today. Yet decades later, China once again has a substantial private rental market where property owners rent homes to tenants and collect rent

That's a pretty remarkable reversal.

If landlordism is inherently unnecessary and can simply be abolished, why did landlord-tenant relationships re-emerge even under a country governed by a Communist Party?

And if the answer is that modern China isn't actually socialist because it allows private property and landlords, then what would a genuinely landlord-free housing system look like in practice? Who provides rental housing for people who don't want, or aren't in a position to own their home?

I have a genuine question about what communist society would look like in our modern era of technology and post industrialism, specifically one following communization theory. If we were to have an international communist revolution, and we immediately transitioned to communism, abolish capitalist social relations, seizing the means of production, abolished class, the state, money, gender, work, commodity production, private property etc . How would life work? Since our very existence is privatized and defined by capitalism it's hard to imagine a life without it so I’m trying to wrap my head around it. How would we buy things in a store, how would we buy things online? If we abolished work how would society function, if we abolished the state how we reprimand/punish and catch people who mureder and rape? How would we buy/attain personal property that we need to survive or live a decent life (tooth brush, cooking utensils etc)? 
In no way am I trying to write this as a rebuttal of communism but rather the opposite. I would consider myself to be a communist. I have read a relatively decent amount of Marx but I’m just trying to understand what the last phase of history would actually look like, and also to find a better way to explain to other people what it would look like.

Market-Federal Especifismo is a heterodox anarchist ideology that combines the organizational discipline, social insertion, and bottom-up federalism of Especifismo with semi-direct democracy and a pluralist market economy. It envisions society as a federation of locally self-governing communities, workplaces, and civic associations linked through recallable delegates, referenda, citizen initiatives, and constitutionally limited federal institutions capable of coordinating large-scale infrastructure, defense, environmental policy, and common standards. Economically, it rejects monopolistic and highly concentrated capitalism while allowing markets, money, small and large private enterprise, worker cooperatives, mutualist firms, and communal ownership to coexist, aiming to preserve individual economic freedom without permitting wealth to translate into entrenched political domination.

I often hear that lenin did not like stalin's way of doing things but i don't get what

Norwegian first issue from 1967. Got it second hand for $20

I am doing a project on Vietnamese refugees, and I'm looking for what communism means because 1/2 of them were communists, and I have searched for a while, but found NOTHING.

Please explain like I'm 5, as in ELI5, they have taken down my post.

Want to spend wisely

Can anyone prove to me that history is transformed through class struggles and not ideas or great men

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Any kind of communist dictatorship in other countries will eventually be crushed/couped/sanctioned by the US because of how powerful they have gotten shouldn't the target be taking down the American regime?

How would certification or accreditation or safety checks work within a communist society.

For example when housing needs to be built: How would the materials be assessed to be of standard quality and not result in faulty construction. If one has to go into surgery how can they be sure that the medical team is operating in a properly sanitized environment without state set standards for what that would be?

Is this handled through something like a community insurance pool or through a peer review system?

Why has there been no communist revolution in India when most of it's freedom fighters were socialists or outright Marxists. Instead today it's ruled by fascists and Indians dislike Marxist concepts

In 200 years of scientific socialism there must have been tests/researches done on marxist theory that either make its argument stronger or weaker? If so, please also mention them. Had this thought after seeing the news of AI bots being overworked becoming Marxists and Che's "it's not my fault that reality is Marxist" started ringing in my head

Asking because I’ve seen a lot of communist talk down on feminism.
I’m still learning on marxism and strongly believe that a communist revolution will be the 1st stone for female liberation.
I just don’t understand why so many communists seem to dislike feminism?

hello! i am young and new to learning of communism. Im wanting to see if i have this right in my head if that makes sense. First i want to make clear i am very aware Mamdani is a democratic socialist. Something i see Mamdani doing is lifting some weight off of red scare especially in the younger communities. A lot of people see the clear improvement he makes and also hear him talk about socialism while still liking him. Ive seen videos of him promoting communist journals aswell. I will say i know it isnt all Mamdani's effort. I just saw 1 in 3 democrats call themselves a democratic socialist. He is just a more popular topic. How i see this is introducing democratic socialism can eventually lead to pure socialism. or at least closer to it. If so i know socialism is just the stepping stone to communism. I see the improvement from Mamdani and i feel this makes sense in my head. Am I looking into the future too far? Is my head in some fiction world where everything works out?... opinions?

I think this was the event that have most waves of effect have in the socialist bloc in the could war and events after it feels even today.

I have a hunch and I am looking to follow it.

I'm especially interested in anything pre 2010 across any adjacent or complimentary field of study

I have a theory that the Y2K bug is what spooked the state into recognizing tech culture and the political inclinations of the people who run it as not just a nuisance, but potentially a threat to global capitalist power structure

In the same way all African American, Black American, and Indigenous Americans are subject to counterinsurgency methods bc if we potentially wanted an end to our oppression it would require a destruction of the state, (which is why our internet discourse cycles through the same 7 topics 😒);

In our highly tech and finance dependent culture the hacker and tech worker could not only one day actualize the OG luxury space [gay] communist dreams around technology, but could relatively effectively destabilize the current global power structure too. So they are subject to similar counterinsurgency methods.

Part of what inspired this line of thought was the Tech Enthusiast vs Engineer (now Tech Worker) meme where the tech enthusiast has a smart house but the tech worker only has a printer from 2004 and a gun. I feel that memes like that and the sentiment it speaks to is never pointing the finger at capitalism, only seeing the surveillance and encroachment of finance as innate.

In my opinion, when an idea is rendered innate to a tool that at one point it was in opposition to, its for a reason. And I don't see people in general talking about this (or maybe I'm not looking in the right places? In which case please pmo! 🩷)

I feel that people are ignorant bc it is beneficial for them to be so, and so I'm curious about who benefits from specific forms of ignorance. I was one of the first to lay out a principled critique of BLM (as a former organizer with BLM national based in Atlanta) with accurate predictions but I doubt I'm the first to talk about the shifts in the politics of tech

I am learning reddit, and am asking here bc someone suggested I should. I read the introduction and rules but if this is not the place please point me in the right direction and I'll remove it and go there. Thank y'all so much!

Why do communists hate deng if(from what I've known) his changes in the policies were what made china what it is today?

Hi comrades,

For the purposes of some historical research I am doing, I am looking at relatively early, pre 1927 start of the Chinese civil war theory on the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, and how it relates to that of the urban proletariat.

I have found some interesting thoughts on the topic from Hungarian communists from the early 1920s, and I want to find out more about any precursors to their ideas, as I am more familiar with the theory focusing on the urban proletariat from the bolsheviks, but admittedly, I am not as well read as I want to be on pre-cold war theory.

What are people on here communists and not anarchists?

I just want to here the perspectives of people on here?

if a society becomes moneyless how are things made and bought? like how are material things produced if you need to obtain resources and workers to make them? something like a toothbrush for example, it has to be made somehow and purchased somehow. would resources and materials be obtained for free? would those objects be made for free? how does it work? sorry if i'm not making much sense i just don't really know how to word my question. what i'm trying to ask is basically how does production of resources work? if someone wants to buy a car, is the car free? are the resources the car is made from free? the builders of the car do it for free? how does it work?

Hi im thinking about joining the american party of labor, but are they feds?