No, Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy was director of the Cheka. Stalin’s “original name” was Dzhugashvili (hope I spelled that one correctly…).

This is my dream, too…

“I was born after the dissolution of the USSR, and I spent most of my life in America. Let me explain to you how terrible life under communism was.”

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I personally don’t think anarchists can really plan that far ahead. Anarchism is more a process than a end goal.

That’s literally your problem, anarchists…

The only other time I’ve seen him wearing that hat was at the artillery manoevers some months ago:

Look how the girl is arranging the bricks. That’s authoritarian! She’s infringing on the bricks’ freedom! She must be an anarcho-tankie secretly!

“Good” answer “except” for the “excessive” amount of “quotation” marks.

Good point about our imagination being limited by living under capitalism. I honestly just never considered that… As far as I know, under socialism, people still have a specialized profession. But you’re correct, communism may well be different. Having a more generalist lifestyle is an interesting thought… Could anyone here share any sources to read more about it?

Why does a communist society imply working both on the fields, as engineer and as administration for a few hours each day? (Not like I’d be too opposed to that, I just don’t see why it would be like that under communism.

Sorry for being so clueless, but what is “cancel culture”?