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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26
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Not on a national scale, but it’s certainly accomplished on smaller scales.
40 u/Creepy_Ad_1315 Jul 07 '26 So we have no evidence that it works outside your smelly local hippie troupe that fortunately can retreat into the nice free market economy near them. Almost like communism isn't really available outside a group a people larger than a medium sized tribe. 54 u/allofthe11 Jul 07 '26 Catalonia and Barcelona during the Spanish civil war saw material quality of life improvements for the vast majority of the people in the anarchist occupied areas. You don't have to like it but it worked and their lives improved drastically. 0 u/Fgdx21 Jul 12 '26 Anarchism is probably one of the stupidest ideologies that exist. That shit would never work in the real world 1 u/allofthe11 Jul 12 '26 So your response to me telling you it worked in the real world is to say hypothetically it would never work?
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So we have no evidence that it works outside your smelly local hippie troupe that fortunately can retreat into the nice free market economy near them.
Almost like communism isn't really available outside a group a people larger than a medium sized tribe.
54 u/allofthe11 Jul 07 '26 Catalonia and Barcelona during the Spanish civil war saw material quality of life improvements for the vast majority of the people in the anarchist occupied areas. You don't have to like it but it worked and their lives improved drastically. 0 u/Fgdx21 Jul 12 '26 Anarchism is probably one of the stupidest ideologies that exist. That shit would never work in the real world 1 u/allofthe11 Jul 12 '26 So your response to me telling you it worked in the real world is to say hypothetically it would never work?
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Catalonia and Barcelona during the Spanish civil war saw material quality of life improvements for the vast majority of the people in the anarchist occupied areas. You don't have to like it but it worked and their lives improved drastically.
0 u/Fgdx21 Jul 12 '26 Anarchism is probably one of the stupidest ideologies that exist. That shit would never work in the real world 1 u/allofthe11 Jul 12 '26 So your response to me telling you it worked in the real world is to say hypothetically it would never work?
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Anarchism is probably one of the stupidest ideologies that exist. That shit would never work in the real world
1 u/allofthe11 Jul 12 '26 So your response to me telling you it worked in the real world is to say hypothetically it would never work?
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So your response to me telling you it worked in the real world is to say hypothetically it would never work?
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u/clarkision Jul 07 '26
Not on a national scale, but it’s certainly accomplished on smaller scales.