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    @Cowbee
    …hierarchical Spanish military groups also lost to the fascist as well, including the Spanish Marxist backed by the Soviet Union.

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        @Cowbee
        I never said ideas create reality, however, I do believe that ideas can shape reality through the actions of those who hold those ideas, and I completely agree with the concept of unity through organization, again, never stating the contrary.

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          You were idealistically stating that more decentralization would have helped the Anarchists despite material evidence to the contrary. Hierarchy is not a bad thint, unjust hierarchy is.

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            @Cowbee
            Hierarchy is a bad thing as it perpetuates inequality and oppression by allowing certain people to have more power than others. Not only would a system where power is decentralized be better in terms of eliminating inequality and oppression, but such a system would be more in line with communism’s goal of creating a classless society.

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              1. Hierarchy does not perpetuate inequality, accumulation does. Hierarchy without accumulation and democratically accountable does not perpetuate inequality.

              2. A decentralized system is not necessarily better at addressing systems of inequality or oppression.

              3. Decentralized or Centralized makes no difference on creating a classless society.

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                @Cowbee
                Hierarchy is the accumulation of power in the hands of a select minority of people. Even if there are safeguards to prevent too much power going to the top there will still always be an accumulation of power at the top of the hierarchy, thereby creating an inequality of power amongst the population. The only way to not have inequality of any kind is to get rid of hierarchy.

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                  Hierarchy is not an accumulation of power, but authority vested in individuals. Democratically accountable, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with it.

                  Additionally, inequality is not an enemy of Communism. Communism is about providing for everyone and giving everyone a dignified life, not about making everyone equal. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” inherently accepts inequality of circumstances and outcomes as acceptable as long as everyone’s needs are met, which is impossible in the contradiction of Capitalism.

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                    @Cowbee
                    I’m not able to take anything you say seriously. First, you claim that individuals having authority over others isn’t an accumulation of power even though a person with authority would have to have power over others to have authority over them, and then you claim that communism is compatible with inequality, which is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard a communist claim. You sound like a revisionist.