I think most forms of central planning/centralization/consolidation of power in the world for the last ~100 years are/were bad because the planning committees are run by either A) fucktard mouth breathers, B) Criminals/subversives or C) both
what I was thinking about with hitler vs stalin, ideologically, is that they seemed to be under the same/similar ideological umbrella of centrally planned, command and control nonsense (which I, perhaps incorrectly, labelled socialism?)... I think?
yes. communism in marx book is when every individual stops thinking about themselves, and cares about the collective good. socialism is the way to get to a communist society.
and in his view, you need to turn people into communists. you do this by either reforming the system slowly, or revolution. and you need to foster the population into communism.
interesting video - maybe Marx hadn't contemplated how massively corruptible societies can be... that the poor/working class would generally do the exact same things that the rich would do if given the opportunity
like AOC or rutger bregman talking about soaking the rich rather than looking at the issues of governance (and the natural corruptibility thereof) that allowed the rich to attain their positions in the first place.
