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[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Like, the elected politicians and bureaucracy can't be trusted enough to regulate industry under capitalism so we'll centralize things and then trust them to regulate industry under Communism?

If that's your understanding of Communism, then you need to read The State and Revolution. Quite a lot of Communist theory is concerned with eliminating the concept of beauracracy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When have attempts to reduce bureaucracy not yielded even more bureaucracy ? This isn't a state V corporation issue either, bureaucracy thrives in both these places.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Actually Existing Socialist States.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Throughout history? The USSR, Cuba, PRC, Vietnam, Laos, etc.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

In theory, democracy produces satisfactory outcomes...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Of course bourgeois democracy doesn’t produce satisfactory outcomes for the working class. It doesn’t represent the will of the working class, but rather that of the capitalist class.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

Democracy does produce satisfactory outcomes, what changes reality is the structure of said democracy. Very few systems are direct democracies, and direct democracies themselves are flawed even in theory.

You should read the text.