I'm actually not a communist, I'm an anarchist, and no, those aren't the same, at all.

This gets pretty close to my position on the matter: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/apio-ludd-why-i-am-not-a-communist

Why I Am Not a Communist

Apio Ludd Why I Am Not a Communist 2013

The Anarchist Library

"Couldn’t I come up with a communism that’s my own? Such a daffy dadaist absurdity could be a delightful experiment, but I have better games to play. You see, communism has a history, and it’s not at all a pretty one. If I’m gonna turn it on its head, it will be in my own way, not to “take it back” – I don’t want the damn thing – but to use it as a verbal weapon. It’s time that the label “communist” became as much an insult as “capitalist” among those anarchists who recognize that no rule means no rule over me; no authority means no authority over me; no government means no government over me. And the immediate practice of these negations is individual autonomy, willful and aware self-creation on my own terms."

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"Communism requires a permanent community. If this isn’t its aim, the word is meaningless, nothing more than the babbling baloney of blowhards battering for their share of revolutionary cred. [3] A lot of the current commies have lost faith in the Gospel of Marx and its promise of predestined communism (of course, no anarchist-communist ever put faith this pious promise, right?). But even the cornballs who conceived “communization” – the idea of communism as an ongoing movement toward community – don’t get away from this goal, because communization is still supposed to be a movement toward that universal (and so, permanent) human community. And what is permanent and universal is anti-individual, anti-me, my enemy. "

@Elizafox Sure but in the context of "Santa's putting COMMUNISM in the stockings this year" -- You might not be a communist but SANTA sure would be.

Like, think about it.

@Elizafox

- a necessarily post- industrial-revolution utopian vision
- coordinated mass of laborers
- surveillance used to top-down enforce moral behavior
- distribution of free goods done by a central distributor
- tracked by NORAD
- beloved ideal and cause for collective unity and emotional alignment
- Red