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I am taking Macroeconomics this semester.

I haven't even opened the book, haven't studied, haven't done any of the practice assignments.

I'm doing better than everyone else in the class.

All of this stuff has been argued here so much that I seem to have absorbed basic knowledge of economics by osmosis. And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought. Awesome.

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:I am taking Macroeconomics this semester.

I haven't even opened the book, haven't studied, haven't done any of the practice assignments.

I'm doing better than everyone else in the class.

All of this stuff has been argued here so much that I seem to have absorbed basic knowledge of economics by osmosis. And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought. Awesome.

I love this board.

Me too.

Game On,
fbmf

fbmf wrote:Me too.

HA!!!

You're only tolerating this board until your insurance payout gets high enough so you can generate a profit from burning down the servers.

I can feel your hatred of this board and everyone in it. Don't frickin' lie to us fbmf.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:

fbmf wrote:Me too.

HA!!!

You're only tolerating this board until your insurance payout gets high enough so you can generate a profit from burning down the servers.

I can feel your hatred of this board and everyone in it. Don't frickin' lie to us fbmf.

No, it's not you guys. He's still mad that I manage to knock up his sister. and his wife. On the same night. Epic night though.

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought.

Anarchocommunist thought? How the hell does that even work?

Have you ever seen the Smurfs? Kind of like that.

NativeJovian wrote:Anarchocommunist thought? How the hell does that even work?

You know. Marxism in its final stage.

Anarchist Communism

It's like that. Some people also call it social anarchism, which is more accessible as a standalone phrase, to me.

I find that most large scale gaming groups tend to run something like that, or very, very, small communities.

There may be 'some' trade, but most of the time, it's more like a very big family.

People who don't understand communism super well often ask one of two questions:

• How can you have anarchist communists?
  or
• How can you have nationalist communists?

These are reasonable questions to ask, because the answers you get to the two questions seem kind of incompatible on first glance. After all, if you're into state planning, how can you not have a state? If you're into classless egalitarianism, how can you not be an internationalist?

The answer is that what constitutes "the group" or "us" varies person to person, and how a group comes to the decisions it does is an entirely contingent fact that is at best loosely collated with the economic system in use. Communism at its core is an attempt to answer The Prisoner's Dilemma and The Crisis of Overproduction in a way that allows everyone to sustainably "win" at both. "Everyone" in this case is merely everyone who participates, and how one decides who is participating is an entirely separate (though interesting) question.

A thing to remember is that in most sane anarchist models, you can and do still have economic planning. Within the anarchist commune you still have division and specialization of labor, because that is efficient. Administration is still done, it's just that it is structurally recognized as a labor specialization rather than as being a "higher" social class. Just because you don't have any rulers doesn't mean that you don't have someone who actually writes the rules. It's just that you acknowledge them as a writer rather than as a boss or lord.

America was actually founded on such principals, not that you'd be able to tell today. That's why the title for the president is "Mister President" as opposed to "My Liege" or even "Your Honor."

-Username17

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:... his sister. and his wife.

There are parts of my town where those sentences would be redundant.

Sir_Neil wrote:

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:... his sister. and his wife.

There are parts of my town where those sentences would be redundant.

Thankfully, this is not true at this end of the state.