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Episode 9: What is Anarcho-Communism? (feat. @RadicalReviewer )

Sisyphus 55 | November 4, 2025



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  6. @binabina4445

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    The guy and his co-worker worked together to decide who do the chores. But the only reason they did chores at all was because they were getting paid…… Sounds more like an argument for capitalism.

  12. @Quatele

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    If anarcho-communists are against the State, and also against capitalism, how will they prevent people from freely trading with each other?

  13. @Void7.4.14

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    "Human nature" is a questionable concept that hasn't really been demonstrated to the best of my knowledge. And even if it could be demonstrated we'd still need to know how much it affects since we know for a fact certain genetic and environmental things have significant impacts on development, especially environmental. But assuming something like that did exist and that it was a cause of some undesirable behaviors anarchism is as much about preventing people from inflicting anything on others as much as it is about creating systems, institutions, and cultures that bring out the best. That's a very important part of the equation. We all know the horrors that humans have committed against each other from the smallest microaggression to the worst brutality and preventing as much of that from being possible is key, doesn't matter how bad someone's intentions may be if they're not in a position to actually cause much harm. If we aren't fit to rule ourselves we certainly aren't fit to rule over each other.

    Also, cats are absolutely not capitalists, they're illegalist egoist individualist insurrectionists. Get in tune.

  14. @maximus4765

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Shit.
    Pure, unrealizable dogshit.
    The state never relinquished power to the people, and without the state nobody adopts communism because it fucking sucks. Capitalism works, poor and rich people existing doesn't change that, sorry buddy.

  16. @sshadyh

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    I know this came out way earlier into Biden’s presidency but I was so shocked when Sisyphus said that biden hasn’t said anything that controversial

  17. @tv-pp

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    If pets were able to understand the climate situation, there would be nothing different about them from us. We are sapient animals, and they would be too. The wouldnt have a unique perspective. It would depend on the culture and education they had, just like humans.

  19. @yerrrrrd

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    What is it with alt-lefties where they can be interesting, well-read, have good points, and then throw all that away by stating that they are unironically a 7-year-old dog.

  24. @beeinthehive

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Even if capitalism were right and people are greedy, isn't that more of a reason not to trust a system (like capitalism) where the greediest gain the power to control the rest of us?

  25. @voIition777

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Anarcho-communism is a very optimistic and utopian viewpoint.

    Yes, voluntary cooperation can emerge, but it’s much more of a rarity than voluntary competition because it relies upon very specific things to occur. It can work in very small scales, but with the context of a nation it’s delusional to assert that everyone in a nation with voluntary fall into line of a certain, very specific way of life.

    Once a single individual resists the prescribed way of life, the “anarcho” part will immediately fail if they intend to preserve the commune’s (or any defined group’s) way of life. If they decide to keep the “anarcho” part, then the “communism” part must give way to a “free market capitalism”.

    Economically speaking, it’s incredibly inefficient because it assumes value. An amateur fingerpainter by many people, will seem to many people, less of a value to society than say, an electrician.

    An anarcho-communism can exist within an anarcho-capitalist society, but not vice versa.

  28. @stevepowsinger733

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    When I discovered that this was an interview with an anachronism-socialist I became skeptical. While not a capitalist personally, I favor capitalism as more attuned to reality.
    . The cutesy drawings and dog don’t change my mind.

  29. @locky7347

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Communism and anarchism sound mutually exclusive, I'm very interested in hearing what will make people give their resources if they'res no government

  30. @beeinthehive

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    For me, the radical ideology would be the one which says you can't have food, water or a place to live unless you have enough money… Or die. We've just been born into it so we're often too close to see how insane that is.

  33. @adrianbrody1683

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    The reason this distribution of labor argument makes no sense is simply because some jobs are less desirable and more necessary then others. Few people want to be a clerk, or clean toilets, or pick up trash, and lots of people want to be artists or work in high status jobs that involve self expression. However for society to function we need far more of the former then the latter. Thus only a few artists “make it” while most live in squalor, and plumbers make bank while working an unappealing job. The market is very good at signaling what jobs are needed and then compensating workers for doing high demand and low labor supply jobs, which then increase labor supply.

  35. @leosaad5727

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    The first years of the Russian revolution was less authoritarian towards art. There are several examples of vanguard experimentalism on cinema, with authors such as Eisenstein, Kulechov and vertov. Their movies and studies were revolutionary to cinema language. I think a more optimistic view of art under anarcho communism would be that of exploring the potential of art expressions.

  37. @nowhereman6019

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    Clearly the only solution to the mainstreaming of counter culture is to become a conceptual avant-garde accelerationist. You must constantly become something new, and when whatever you become becomes named, labeled, and categorized, you must abandon it and move on to the new unknown.
    "Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
    -Antonin Artaud

  41. @winkthecosmicgrandma

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    He’s talking to a guy who’s a dish washer at a grocery store who plays video games. Of course he’s a anarcho communist. He’s one paycheck away from being another dude destroying the parks next my house.

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