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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The end stage of the dialectic is that, yes. But that's doesn't just appear from nothing. Read state and Revolution or What is to be done.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

But that's doesn't just appear from nothing.

Yea I think that's kinda their point

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally while I think all states should be abolished and all resources should be shared on a global scale, I also think that the company that serves my house with Internet should be forced to compete so that we (the people in my city) can get the benefits of capitalism: improved prices and service.

I also believe that the latter is actually a step towards the former - though it's just a guess.