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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] QwertySpace@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (15 children)

What economic model do you believe in?

[–] ConfusedLlama@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I can't really say I believe in a specific model, but to my knowledge, and for the current version of our world, welfare states seem to be doing the least worse currently. But really, I think our world is kinda too fucked up right now to be able to have any good social-economic system (in terms of maximum equality and minimum suffering, I guess.)

Ideally, I'd prefer no state, only local communities managing themselves (something like city states, maybe?) and their relations to other communities... but I know it's just a dream, at least for the foreseeable future, considering the current realities and the ass-people in power. Because that would need many really peaceful, non-greedy and non-selfish people, which... well, never mind.

P.s. Sorry for the pessimism, and I might be wrong of course, which I really hope I am.

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're describing communalism, if you're interested.

[–] ConfusedLlama@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Maybe, kind of. My knowledge on the topic is limited, but I think communalism (or some version of it) could involve some form of loyalty to one's ethnic group or community, which absolutely disagree with.
Social responsibility: Yes. But loyalty, especially towards something ultimately meaningless such as ethnicity: No.
My values are respecting individual choices, rights and well-being of others (which also entails some responsibility).

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I completely agree. However, as I understand, the tradition as it stems from Murray Bookchin explicitly condemns this arbitrary categorisation.

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