For context: The thread was about why people hate Hexbear and Lemmygrad instances

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    structures like worker councils, Authoritarianism isn’t required in the slightest.

    Those worker councils, to operate with any efficiency, will need a national council. To have any success whatsoever, this national council needs the authority to dictate what is made, where it is made, how much is made when, and where goods are to be shipped.

    That is authoritarianism.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Secondly, by your very same logical chain, Capitalism is more authoritarian, as only the state and the Bourgeoisie call the shots, rather than democratic control.

        This sentence doesn’t make sense. Capitalism is an economic system. One can be capitalist and authoritarian, as is the case with fascism, or one can be totally and completely laissez-faire as a state policy in some sort of Objectivist hellstate. Liberal Democracy is what keeps those things from happening, as a competing system of government.