Communism is an economic and political ideology of “workers owning the rights and means to productions” as opposed to investors and upper management not specifically beholden to those workers, so yes publicly owned services and also cooperatives are “communism”.
That’s not to say that communism is in any way a solution to the problems of greed or corruption, though, because centralized authorities managing those public goods and services can be as bad or even worse than a monopoly.
My stance is plainly that communism or capitalism is a pointless discussion to even have on the topics of inequality, civil rights, or wealth concentration because it makes no difference compared to the discussion of democracy vs antidemocratic ideologies like fascism or tankies.
Communism is an economic and political ideology of “workers owning the rights and means to productions”
That’s not all that communism is though. Capitalism has publicly owned services too.
My stance is plainly that communism or capitalism is a pointless discussion to even have on the topics of inequality, civil rights, or wealth concentration
Those are all features of communism (lack of civil rights though).
You can add things to the definitions of words all you like but it just puts you on the same level as those tankies screaming bloody murder about Capitalism.
Communism is an economic and political ideology. Individual publicly owned services are not “communism”.
Communism is an economic and political ideology of “workers owning the rights and means to productions” as opposed to investors and upper management not specifically beholden to those workers, so yes publicly owned services and also cooperatives are “communism”.
That’s not to say that communism is in any way a solution to the problems of greed or corruption, though, because centralized authorities managing those public goods and services can be as bad or even worse than a monopoly.
My stance is plainly that communism or capitalism is a pointless discussion to even have on the topics of inequality, civil rights, or wealth concentration because it makes no difference compared to the discussion of democracy vs antidemocratic ideologies like fascism or tankies.
That’s not all that communism is though. Capitalism has publicly owned services too.
Those are all features of communism (lack of civil rights though).
You can add things to the definitions of words all you like but it just puts you on the same level as those tankies screaming bloody murder about Capitalism.