Communism is not communalism. At least if we are talking about Marxist understandings. Top-down administration is not incompatible with bottom-up consensus building, and both are necessary in a fully collectivized system across the entire world.
Communism is not communalism, but it is heavily based on the Commune as a structure (I mean, Marx was literally drawing on the Paris Commune in formulating it) and means of governing by consensus of the proletariat.
Too many communists make a “survival of the fittest”-like mistake when trying to understand DoTP as Marx intended it, which was a descriptive state where the actions of the Proletariat as a body signify their collective will, and only conceptualize it as Lenin bastardized it, which was as a prescriptive mandate for authority by the State.
The Paris Commune, in Marx’s analysis, was both progressive and yet a failure for not smashing the former state apparatus and failing to establish proletarian state power. The idea of having a bunch of horizontalist, indepentent but interconnected cells is not a Marxist notion, but instead closer to anarchism. Lenin did not bastardize the DotP, he clarified Marx’s intentions against the bastardization by the second international.
Communism is not communalism. At least if we are talking about Marxist understandings. Top-down administration is not incompatible with bottom-up consensus building, and both are necessary in a fully collectivized system across the entire world.
Communism is not communalism, but it is heavily based on the Commune as a structure (I mean, Marx was literally drawing on the Paris Commune in formulating it) and means of governing by consensus of the proletariat.
Too many communists make a “survival of the fittest”-like mistake when trying to understand DoTP as Marx intended it, which was a descriptive state where the actions of the Proletariat as a body signify their collective will, and only conceptualize it as Lenin bastardized it, which was as a prescriptive mandate for authority by the State.
The Paris Commune, in Marx’s analysis, was both progressive and yet a failure for not smashing the former state apparatus and failing to establish proletarian state power. The idea of having a bunch of horizontalist, indepentent but interconnected cells is not a Marxist notion, but instead closer to anarchism. Lenin did not bastardize the DotP, he clarified Marx’s intentions against the bastardization by the second international.