Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
rant:
I have been using Linux since 2006, a lefty and against the super-rich and big corporations since I remember (to the point of avoiding their products like the plague), also never having understood or accepted gender roles and other stupid traditional concepts, yet never turned into a communist 🤷
It baffles me that so many people think that respecting gender equality, understanding the evil in big corporations and avoiding them, valuing community and being tolerant (except for intolerance) and against discrimination somehow equals communism… I say this because I’ve been called a communist by many people who know me, while I have always rejected it explicitly!
/rant
All of these have their basis in the liberatory framework of anarchism, and a large and traditional portion of communism is anarchist. These kinds of liberation are the goals of anarchy and by extension communism. This is why, for example, Marx described communism as stateless and why it manifests a strong opposition to religion/religious institutions.
I agree that these things do not make one a communist, but at the same I believe these stances themselves are communist, even if they overlap with other ideologies and/or economic frameworks.
I suspect that as one embraces these stances, they are more likely to adopt the views of larger populations that share the same ideals, and that this facilitates the transition many have to communism. But clearly that political transition does not have to occur, as it did not in your case.
Sounds a lot like me. That’s not communism, that’s just being a decent person. One that respects others and just wants everyone to live a good life without being the target of hate and harassment.
That’s overlapping with communism.