The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 180
After a long wait, we return to finish our exploration of The Communist Manifesto (pdf) here on the New Discourses Podcast. In this episode, host James Lindsay takes you through the last chapter of the Manifesto itself and then continues to “The Principles of Communism,” which Friedrich Engels wrote, originally as a “Communist Confession of Faith” in 1847, a year before the Manifesto was published with Karl Marx. He and Marx wrote it for the Communist League, which is given as an offshoot of the League of the Just, a revolutionary secret society made up of scattered French radicals and the remnant-in-exile of the Bavarian Illuminati. Join James for this clear look into the foundations of organized Communism and the principles upon which it was organized.
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Thanks for the exposure of this poor analysis (communism) of socio economics. After listening to the first hour it is clear that a major blind spot of communists / ism is that it requires a massive ruling class… the party bureaucracy. When individuals own private property they make all decisions pertaining to that property. Otherwise the bureaucracy makes those decisions. Which is not only far less efficient but it is a lack of freedom representative of slavery. Slaves don’t own property and don’t make decisions about the property they live and work on.
The result of this system of centralized control is that it must be treated as law… ultimate authority. Which is why communism is necessarily authoritarian and ultimately totalitarian. So there is more freedom to choose jobs, employers, working conditions, living conditions, voluntary associations etc in a “free market” system. Oppression increases rather than decreases under communism by functional design of centralized control.
Have you or anyone you know of written in detail about this aspect? Please let me know how to access that.
Thanks.