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I had a journey (lemmy.ml)

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welcome comrade

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

penguin-dance

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Eric Raymond, Communism and Free Software Eric Raymond, Communism and Free Software

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (20 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Just began using Linux, was already Marxist

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

So many kiddos arguing ridiculous politics here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

it be a slippery slope

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This meme shows completely my journey. I became a FOSS advocate in 2020 after realized that all sites that I visited wanted my "cookies". I started to questioning myself about and after some research I became a disciple of Richard Stallman and a Marxist-Leninist.

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