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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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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

In my view Torvalds is more of a pragmatic stoicist.

[–] kariboka@bolha.forum 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, I agree, I am at stage 3 and stage 4 looks more enticing every single damn day.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I honestly don't even know what a Marxist is.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Marxism is the classical version of communism developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. As opposed to later ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

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[–] Kjatten@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Just began using Linux, was already Marxist

[–] Stuka@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

So many kiddos arguing ridiculous politics here.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Ironic as I went the other way. I was a Communist when I got into FOSS and as I got older I realized I could never defend the historical record of Communism.

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[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

it be a slippery slope

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Just wait for the next stage as a libertarian socialist, without a leading communist party, because we can take care of us ourselves - it's usually called anarchy (which doesn't mean no social norms, just self-organisation without leadership)

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't really see the link to communism though I can see the parallels to social democracy.

Private ownership of computer code should lead us to a hellscape where all code is owned by a handful of huge companies and wealthy elites. But instead of doing away with private ownership and making all code public domain we added regulation in the form of free and open source licensing that democratized private ownership and made it serve our community. Perhaps that is the real lesson, not communism.

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