It's pathetic seeing these leftist weirdos who once promoted causes like "Occupy Wall Street" now claiming Goldman Sachs is your friend and here to help.
Yeah, from what little I've listened to Hedges talking about meeting the Occupy leadership at the time, I sincerely doubt that those are the same people. (Even grown older.)
Whats definitely there though is ample money for NGOs that promote active stagnation of growth, and personal private investment in sustainable and degrowth ventures. Thats were the international left liberal marketing money currently is.
And strangely that also includes subverting the concept of occupy, if it helps to move people into communes in the countryside, spending their money on local investment banks. (Banks that dont deal in stock market assets basically.)
In my experience.
The only thing that comes with communism is tyranny and death, because it's sole purpose is exactly what I said, to centralize all wealth and power so the bankers can steal it all just like they did to Russia
Nope, you havent understood it.
Russia is an oligopoly, where major industry is in close proximity to state interests, so is banking. Everyone who had become anything better became friends with the Kreml at one point or their chance of retaining anything became pretty slim.
Communism in principal was driven by ideological ideas, that were used to draw up new utopias, which then ended in Stalin and Lenin working on the implementation, which essentially became powerstructures that had nothing to do with the ideals in the beginning. "Communism is..." usually is said by either the US to conjure up an image that doesnt exist, or by russians doing pretty much the same..
This is a discussion that leads pretty much nowhere - because the ideology, ultimately wasn't what did win out, or was implemented. And to say absolutist dictatorial regimes, with a veneer of 'egalitarianism', do you really have to use the word communism? Or do you specifically mean, that people were 'assigned jobs' and worked in 'collective farms' f.e., which usually you dont. For what became of that communism, read Orwells Animal Farm.
Try using the term in relation to chinese political structures, and it becomes a little more interesting..
For a still largely useless, but better analysis, watch: