• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    Extreme simplification:

    Liberalism: supports capitalism. Current system + tweaks

    Leftism: supports anticapitalism of some form, the two biggest umbrellas being Marxism/Communism and Anarchism

    Marxism/Communism: supports collectivization, public ownership, and central planning (I have an introductory reading list if you want to learn more, or just read Principles of Communism)

    Anarchism: supports full horizontalism and networks of communes

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        7 hours ago

        They’re conveniently leaving out the entire concept of Socialism for some reason, while making sure to mention Marxism by name.

        So I would make sure to add that to the list. Communism is a specific form of socialism, but the two are non synonymous.

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          4 minutes ago

          I leave out “socialism” because for the vast majority of actual implementations, they have been Marxist in character, and additionally any Socialist system in my opinion would either progress to Communism or regress to Capitalism, making it kind of redundant to split from Communism.

          Communism isn’t a type of Socialism if we are being nitpicky, but the Mode of Production after Socialism.