yeah, I find Lenin’s attack of “left-communism” uncompelling. I understand the need to be pragmatic and to secure the revolution, etc. - we can’t always have sunshine and rainbows, but if your goal is to create an egalitarian society like communism, I think it makes more sense to start working those egalitarian muscles earlier rather than later. I also think this plays into natural human instincts to be pro-social with one another and to cooperate, especially when the context is authentically mutual and clearly so.

Plenty of projects manage to operate in egalitarian ways, that doesn’t guarantee their doom and organizing in an authoritarian fashion is not a foregone conclusion as the most efficient way to operate, let alone even a good one.