Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
What is communism, and what is its real history? Was it invented by Marx? Was the USSR communist? And who was William Thompson? This podcast opens by looking at how the meaning of communism as opposed to socialism evolved in the late nineteenth century and closes with a look at how this applies to the free software movement today.
Original article can be found here: https://www.wsm.ie/c/communism-history-definition-open-software-anarchism
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Music credit to bensound.com
What is communism, and what is its real history? Was it invented by Marx? Was the USSR communist? And who was William Thompson? This podcast opens by looking at how the meaning of communism as opposed to socialism evolved in the late nineteenth century and closes with a look at how this applies to the free software movement today.
Original article can be found here: https://www.wsm.ie/c/communism-history-definition-open-software-anarchism
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Music credit to bensound.com
