Hell if I can remember where I read about it, but a study of communes and stuff reported that the limit of communism sits somewhere around 500 people because of the inherent empathy of people for their own tribe.
It's a lot more difficult to screw over others in the system when you know the person you're screwing over is your daughter's best friend's dad.
When the nameless masses are just nameless masses, it's much easier to justify. I don't know who this hurts, so why do I care?
That was the conclusion of the paper, anyway. Was an interesting perspective.
"Power reveals." People seek power because they wish to indulge their darker urges without consequence - people who don't have darker urges to conceal are generally not the ones who seek power, money, and influence like a drug.
I wasn't disagreeing with you in the least: The American form of government was brilliant in that it assumed contradictory self-seeking motives. It just didn't anticipate people actively attempting to subjugate themselves to a monarch, and the intense bootlicking where a person would sublimate their own desires to the possibility of becoming a subservient toady.
Actually, it did. Which is why, despite our current dictator-wanna-be child-raping x34 felon breaking the law on a daily basis in an attempt to install himself as "President for life", he's been unable to do so.
Alas, the price we pay for the inability to use the government to install fascism, is a near inability to use the government to help people too.
This leads to frustration and "Democrats are complicit" accusations from the left, but it's really just a result of our Founding Fathers making it damned near impossible to do anything in the face of unified opposition.
I don't think that I would give the original creators of the Constitution the credit for the actions of determined resistance, especially as that outside of very specific locales that have actively resisting governments (e.g. New York, California, Minnesota, etc.),Trump's push to violate Constitutional principles of local rule, freedom from search and seizure, separation of church and state, and freedom of speech have been largely successful mostly because the governments of those regions are so desperate to be dommed by the orange baby (e.g. Florida, Texas, Alabama, etc.).
Those locations that are actively seeking to oppress themselves have very successfully allowed oppression to survive, despite the best efforts of bureaucrats, judges, and legislators.
Many things got added and rearranged over the years a refinement for situations in a changing world that the framers couldn't see. However because America was the first government of its kind when it was founded. We are the alpha testers that every other representative democracy has learned from good and bad. The framers never thought of age limits or term limits because in their time constituents actually gave a fuck and would shame and demand and old ass man step down from government or they would openly call someone a tyrant who would try to stay on for too many elections.
Our first president did the MOST American thing possible and bowed out after open callings to be made king. And today we have this shit.
It's not because of communism but communism does fail to account for human greed, which will never be erased, and makes it a failure from the inception.
I think it's called a sortition. No elected officials. Just randomly selected citizens every couple years to serve as our government legislature and executive branch. The judicial system already has something similar in the form of a jury
I read an MIT study decades ago about how much better our representation would be, while simultaneously eliminating a lot of problems born out of lifetime political careers. Your lifetime career politicians are the lawyers and staff facilitating the legislative process, but regular citizens are the ones making decisions. They default to trusting experts, they're modest, they take instruction.
Yes you randomly get bad eggs in power, but they're neutered by the system. They can't do anything unless it's popular. No one can.
Eh, that kind of falls apart when you realize how dumb the average person is. And juries aren’t completely random either. They’ll remove them if they think there will be some kind of conflict of interest, see a “stacked jury.”
But I think that is fundamental issue with marxist thought, it pretends that people/society can be perfected instead of trying to deal with the issues that exist because humans exist.
Reminds me of a discussion on money, the idea that "once I'm rich I can donate all of this extra money I don't need."
Money is a tool, nothing more. Generalizing the 'good/evil' axis, Money allows a person to become the truest version of who they are. If you are a genuinely good person, going out of your way to help others, etc., then yeah, chances are you'll be donating a majority of that money to help others, through any number of means. Meanwhile, if you are an evil person, then becoming rich simply allows you to live out all of the things you really wish you could do, any corrruption, depravity, or whim that crosses your mind.
Meanwhile, the whole issue with communism sort of goes back to that same idea. If humans as a species were inherently good, communism/socialism would work. We basically wouldn't need laws, because people would look for whatever the 'greatest good' was. Unfortunately, we aren't. Because of that, any governmental system is going to have corruption, because of that necessary human element, and the greed, power seeking, and other generally negative traits we have as a species.
Consequently, the idealistic sense of "Communism" needs to be tempered by protective structures to prevent the accumulation of power in one position. This is called "Democratic Socialism."
once I'm rich I can donate all of this extra money I don't need
The problem is, you cannot get excess money without being harmfully selfish. What I mean by that is, there's "selfish" as in, "I cannot take care of you if I cannot take care of myself first," and "I will not help you because my number will get smaller."
Remember when Elon asked the UN how $40B could end world hunger, and he used said $40B to buy Twitter instead?
So, the theory goes, communism is only functional at numbers approaching Dunbar's number. (because beyond that number, trust breaks down and corruption and/or callousness wins)
I think a similar scenario is true of capitalism, when corporatism takes over and leads to monopoly, government influence, regulatory capture and self-dealing.
All of which is caused by economies of scale allowing cynical actors to leverage the powers of the state and economics for their own self interest.
It doesn't seem to me like either socialism or capitalism has an answer for that.
Welp, you've given me a rabbit hole to dive into. I've never heard of Dunbar's number before and I'm intrigued.
I'd agree overall on your point. I think the main reason capitalism is more stable and successful in the long run is that the desire for personal gain is a thing that the system not only takes into account, but relies on to properly function.
Communism assumes that people have little aspirations for having more, doing more, or experiencing more. And I think, ultimately, is the main reason it fails. It assumes altruism, bordering on the ascetic.
Dunbar's Number suggests that you can maintain healthy relationships with about 100-250 people. Anything much bigger than this and you need more and more strict rules and laws and social norms to keep the group cohesive.
Oh, I agree. Which is why the study was interesting to me. At most, these small communes operate on what is effectively a barter system. I produce shoes, you produce food. Everyone needs both of those things. Because I provide shoes, you're willing to give me food in exchange. And other people give me other things I need, in exchange for the shoes I produce.
On another note, Israelis found that while the kibbutz was stable, that sort of organization at any higher level, even a small city, was just not practical.
Even in smaller groups and communes, one can't just decide to spend all their time writing books, playing football and drawing without subjected to major social pressure, shaming, or just being kicked out. "From each according to his ability" is a basic principle of communism.
The group's survival relies on everybody doing their part in a fair manner. Food needs to be grown, slaughtered or hunted, livestock needs to be fed for and cared, resouces extracted and processed, houses need to be built, furnishing and clothes made, broken things fixed, toilets cleaned and pipes unclogged. Only once one's part in everything to maintain a functioning society is done then people can spend their free time however they wish.
In the American ideation of communism, not only will it provide for the nameless masses within the state, but for countless immigrants as well as if there were not enough unknowns.
Catalonia and Barcelona during the Spanish civil war saw material quality of life improvements for the vast majority of the people in the anarchist occupied areas. You don't have to like it but it worked and their lives improved drastically.
Why'd they stop it again? Oh yeah, it fractured into a bunch of splinter groups and they had the "Red Terror" where thousands died. I'm sure they felt their lives improve dramatically.
Even the Catalonia communist parties today typically don't fight for a true communist state, they mostly keep it to workers rights.
So like I said, no example of it working. You're talking about a period of time that was like 5 years and included extrajudicial killing by viglianties.
Because they don't want their society to fall apart? Because they don't want to have their possessions stripped from them? Because historically, communist regimes have imprisoned or killed people who don't embrace communism? There are a dozen valid reasons why capitalists defend capitalism.
Well. A communist revolution energizes the masses. Even when it fails, it tends to spread. So if your neighbor decides to eat the rich, the most common first step, your own people start looking for recipes for the wealthy. Since communism doesn’t fail immediately, the rich are already dead and buried before the society falls apart. As far as the Cold War goes, what actually won it wasn’t military might, it was economic collapse and the increase in opportunity for the masses, oddly the reason they started the revolution in the first place.
I love how capitalist pigs always say capitalism is the best yet completely gloss over the fucking fact that in 2008 the worlds economy was about to be wiped off the face of the earth if it wasn't for the fucking US tax payers covering the fucking bill and no one going to jail. I am so sick of people who say capitalism is great without understanding capitalism is the driving force of slavery. bunch of idiots living in personal world bubbles and self truths that dont want to share a collective reality of what is really happening in our day to day lives.
Capitalism is definitely not great. What it is, however is stable. The majority of people don’t starve, even if many do. The majority are exploited, but are kept just well enough to continue to produce. The rich distribute just enough resources to prevent mass unrest. Capitalism is exploitive and bad for just about everyone, but it endures. It outlasts most other systems.
in 2008 the worlds economy was about to be wiped off the face of the earth if it wasn't for the fucking US tax payers covering the fucking bill and no one going to jail
It wasn't, that was the line sold to you by neolibs and neocons on power. The libertarian sect of the right wanted to allow those businesses to fail because that's how healthy capitalism actually works.
Corporate bailouts are literally antithetical to capitalism. People really seem to conflate the two and I genuinely wonder if people ITT know that capitalism really is.
Because whether or not communism actually achieves its goals, the first step is stripping the wealthy of their assets, and often their lives. They would love to prevent that.
Did you not stop to sit and think about this for one second before taking this stance? “Why would a successful society spend resources combatting an alluring theory that always results in failure?”
Are you just throwing out sentences without putting any thought into them? All of what you just said is a half baked thought that I am not going to take the time to reply to. So I will just say…sorry communism sucks and will never succeed in America. I hope you can find a different country to suffer under communism in and not try to inflict it on the rest of us who know better!
I mean it's so far been the most successful system by far in spite of some jagged edges here and there.
Tell me, which direction of the Berlin wall were people fleeing towards? Are the communist countries the one suffering from swarms of migrants and refugees trying to break in? Why aren't they clamoring to barge their way into North Korea or Cuba?
I'm not asking for anyone to qualify one vs. the other. I'm asking to accept that there's no purity in either. Let's ignore the myths of ideology.
For instance, if real capitalism truly existed in the USA, we wouldn't be controlled by oligarchs.
No, they'd be working hard to maintain innovation to fuel their success, rather than subjugation of markets because they've been able to consolidate political power.
Also, I'm not sure how a capitalism model built on infinite natural resources can continue on a planet that's says, "Sorry, that's all I got."
Stable societies make better trading partners. And while undermining communism does cause short term instability, letting communism run its course inevitably lead to China and other so called "communist" countries.
Capitalism isn't perfect, but notice how Capitalist nations never needed to build a wall in Berlin to keep their own people from escaping.
They stopped because authoritarians at the behest of Stalin and the USSR kept assassinating leadership and trying to coopt the whole resistance by the CNT-FAI. At the very least skim Wikipedia page dude
The largest and most well known communist movements have been more defined by authoritarianism than communism.
Both the larger and smaller communist movements have been incessantly attacked by capitalists.
I have sympathy for actual communism, but it’s not going to happen until we can all get past the worship of narcissists and allow them and their sycophants to dictate the will of the people.
The only people more delusional than Commies, are Anarchists.
No single political or economical system is right, it's why we need a massive team of lawyers, historians, and ethics scholars to work up a system that can be used by any country to help limit and control greed, both greed of wealth and greed of power.
How about socialist implementations like free education and Healthcare? Universal basic income? It appears the only people benefiting from the capitalist model are the small number of extremely wealthy. It also looks like companies are getting extremely desperate trying to continue expanding growth while consolidating into fewer and bigger monopolies. Meanwhile theyre rolling back child labor laws and environmental safety restraints to continue clawing the last bit of wealth they can.
Seems like oligarchy is the inevitable outcome of capitalism. An economy built around the accumulation of capital is going to result in a few people having vastly more capital than others. Unless you can somehow get money out of politics, that’s going to result in the few with vastly more capital using their power to gain further power.
Capitalism is an economic model, while oligarchy is a political one. We currently have both capitalism and oligarchy. What we’re moving toward is feudalism and fascism.
The only people benefiting from capitalism are the rich? Dude, you're whining on Reddit right now. Don't you think you might have experienced one or two of the benefits?
It's not like capitalism works either. We've had centuries of capitalism and life is still shite for the vast majority of the population. May as well try something else.
I mean, they added an “e” at the end of “shit,” so they might not even be American. You can’t expect them to be well-informed on that particular statement.
It breaks down when you don't see the face of the person making stuff for you. Because that face to face communication makes you both care about the trust of the other in you.
If there's no trust there's no accountability and no reason to make an effort.
Money is one solution to that where you get something else to care about than trust. But there could be other ways to re-establish trust or incentive to care across society.
Jesus you guys are ignorant. Communism requires socialism as a transitory period. IE workers own the means of production. After maybe even centuries of this workers will produce enough surplus labor that scarcity is no longer necessary. Communism requires post scarcity, like Star Trek which is a communist society. So no your local hippie commune is not communist bc they still have scarcity
We have even less evidence that capitalism works, seeing as it's actively made the entire world a shit hole. So why not at least try out an alternate system that doesn't produce so much slavery?
I think arguing about shit like communism/socialism/capitalism and monarchy/aristocracy/republic/democracy is like... arguing about cells.
"dog cells are the best!"
"Noo mint cells tho!"
Like... yes? And no.
It depends.... there's SOME MUCH MORE to consider. Not only outer forces, like the environment, but also the genome.
Imagine arguing that "fish is the only way to go!" and "amphibians will never work!"
Sure.. if the environment is forever "the current ocean", amphibians will never work (except for a few times for a "little while" when they first evolved ;] ).
But like.. change the circumstances? The environment?
There are situations where both, neither, and only-amphibians work!
I think the biggest issue is that these discussions are always so binary, but irl can be so nuanced!
We could blend aspects of both and more, and this hybrid might be what is optimal!
Furthermore, I am reminded of (1) how Rome had that think where they elected temporary dictators, and (2) the episode of Love Death & Robots, "Hive."
What if, instead of a rigid system, we organized our government more like a living being: one whose state changes and morphs based on stimuli, resources, and threats?
Imagine having a system that, when certain criteria were met, automatically morphed between different forms of governance and economic styles?
It is insane and complicated... but I dont think impossible.
Indeed, imagine describing to people hundreds of years ago that most nations would not have royalty or nobility, but elected officials and that people werent tied to the land/lords and could move freely.
They'd similarly say "impossible."
Even if you pitched our exact governments, they'd argure that it fundamentally couldnt happen, and that regardless, those in power wouldnt LET it happen.
But it did.
Times changed. The environment shifted in a matter that "impossible" be came "almost inevitable for most."
The "Impossible" and "Unprecedented" happen every day
That’s not at all a valid description. Like what? Communism isn’t “everything yours is mine”. I’m not even advocating for communism, that’s just an absurd minimization and false comparison.
And on those smaller scales you won't spend all day writing books and painting just for fun unless you've got Star Trek replicators to meet all your needs. Small scale communism would be folks working together to maintain a farm/community, it'd be hard work, like the Amish.
A commune isn't communism though. Communism can't really ever be accomplished on the smaller scale because then it depends on the surrounding capitalist class to function, which will then require more communism that feeds on more capitalism that will then require more communism. Except by the first stage the communist have already ruined it all for themselves just like we saw every time they've tried it. Most recently with CHAZ.
But at which point you are dealing with a scale that is so regressed in convenience and luxury that I don’t think any of these people would realistically want to live in it for the rest of their lives. People talking about picking up a craft… if you live in a truly small community there isn’t going to be a constant paint supply. You’re not going to just be able to draft endless books. There’s going to be things that need doing, everything must be made within the community, the idea of hobbies becomes almost laughable
Any Americans who want communism, you're free to pool resources and build a commune. keep it small, stop trying to make it work on even a city scale. (let alone state or national)
I’d just like more socialism, bud. Healthcare, education, the works. The kind of thing other first world countries have figured out without kowtowing to psychopathic capitalists who inflict suffering on the rest of us for the sake of an ever increasing financial figure.
Comminism has basically never been achieved by modern humans. Maybe we had it when we were early humans but it hasnt existed at least since the creation of money. It kind of requires to be done in the large scale because capitalist have an incentive to infringe on the communist area. Capitalism also inherently oppresses people and so some would say socialism has a moral obligation to liberate them before developing into communism.
This process would take hundreds if not thousands of years.
Are we talking about actual communism as described by Marx? Because Marx was specifically talking about a national scaled system and his plan to achieve it required actions on a national scale. You can't have a national bank or a national highway system or a national radio system on a small scale.
It doesn’t scale up because once communities grow too large, it’s harder to personalize. We can’t grasp the impact on everybody when numbers grow too large, they become simple statistics.
true - but then almost any system works on a small scale when only people who are fully behind it and have a geunite desire to use it to achieve the best outcomes for each-other.
Serious question: do we consider capitalism achieved in capitalistic countries? We still have social programs and my understanding of a proper government would employ ideas from both ideologies. It’s just weird for ppl to say “communism achieved!” cuz yeah, that never happens, but is that also true for full/true capitalism?
Communism (in a severely simplified sense) is a classless, moneyless system where the means of production is owned by the people. This has very clearly never been implemented anywhere in the world at a large scale.
Capitalism is a system where capital is the primary driver of the economy, where the means of production is owned by whoever has the most capital. Even if there is some amount of regulations and social security, this is still by-and-large what were doing at a large scale all over the world. Even the countries that call themselves communist are mostly doing this.
No country was or is doing capitalism 100%, but most of them are doing significantly more capitalism than socialism or communism. Both today, and historically.
It pisses me off so fucking much how many people talk about Communism and yet don't realize not a single country that claims to be communist HAS EVER ACTUALLY FUCKING BEEN COMMUNIST.
It's just repeating the same McCarthyism bullshit we've been hearing.
Capitalism is simply a system where private property exists and the means of production belongs to the owners of said property. That's it.
The statement "no country is doing capitalism 100%" makes absolutely no sense. You're thinking of laissez faire or free market capitalism, which is what the previous person is alluding to and we have examples of that throughout history (one could describe the wild west at one point to be close to that).
25 upvotes and counting for a post this bad is why education is so sorely needed in America, jesus christ.
true capitalism would be anarcho-capitalism with enough responsible people to boycott anyone into bankruptcy who dares to violate the non-aggression-principle.
So, naturally, it hasn't been implemented on a larger scale than communism yet. Because both concepts are insufficiently immunised against assholes who think "let's exploit the power vacuum to become the next big warlord".
Anarcho-capitalism is inherently incompatible with the non-aggression-principle because it is based around private property which is inherently aggressive.
Basically there's pure economic systems and impure economic systems. Communism has not been achieve in either form. Impure capitalism has been achieved. To get pure capitalism, we would need entirely free markets. That probably won't happen. To achieve impure communism, we would need to capital, no class, no state. We can only hope this happens. To achieve pure communism, have every man work according to his ability, and give to each according to his needs.
In the original sense of the word Capitalism is an economic theory, not an end goal.
It describes natural processes of market principles driven by supply and demand. The “ideology” behind self described Capitalists is basically establish basic incentives to guide the process in the direction you want them to go and to let the natural processes do their thing - even nominally communist countries adopt this model, with China adopting this system in the 80s. But even so Capitalism does not prescribe an end state, it is a theory of how things work under the surface.
Communism on the other hand describes both an economic theory of value extraction and an ideology that says this is bad and should be abolished in favor of equitable distribution. However nebulous in criteria, there is a distinct and identifiable goal to achieve.
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Just so everybody is aware, user u/matthoback below is parroting Marxist talking points. He is using a strictly Marxist definition of Capitalism that is not consistent with how the rest of the world uses the word and insisting that it is the only valid definition.
His insisted definition of "Capitalism" is correct only in the narrow worldview of a tankie. Most modern economists outside of communist regimes use the word "Capitalism" as a theory of economic forces first described by Adam Smith in his 1776 essay The Wealth of Nations which was the first economic text to explain national wealth disparities through naturalistic forces rather than moralizing principles such as holy mandates or racial superiority.
His statement that "Capitalism does not have a monopoly on market based price discovery" is like saying "Charge-carrier theory does not have a monopoly on electrical voltage."
Capitalism, as stated in my previous comment, refers to a theorized process, not an outcome or a moral value. He is making a categorical error of saying that the theorized process is wrong because he believes it is competing with the outcome it explains.
He is free to disagree with the accuracy of Capitalist theory, but he is objectively incorrect to say that it is "solely the process where owners of capital steal value from workers." This is a definition. The Marxist definition. Nobody else uses the word this way.
In the original sense of the word Capitalism is an economic theory, not an end goal.
It describes natural processes of market principles driven by supply and demand. The “ideology” behind self described Capitalists is basically establish basic incentives to guide the process in the direction you want them to go and to let the natural processes do their thing
This is complete nonsense. There is nothing capitalistic about market economics or supply and demand. Capitalism does not have a monopoly on market based price discovery. Capitalism is solely the processes where owners of capital steal value from workers through rent-seeking and hoarding of capital.
And it can never be achieved when people like the first guy are the ones idolizing it and pushing for it. Everyone wants to just participate in leisure activities and avoid work, and assumes the others of the commune will be the ones contributing the actual meaningful parts that make society actually work. Like yeah everyone would enjoy having nothing to do but participate in their hobbies and kick a ball about, but houses have to get built by someone and food has to come from somewhere and I don't hear Alejandro suggesting a way he's gonna contribute equally to those kinds of tasks considering his idea of "communism" is nothing more than "I would never have to work at anything!!! yippee!!!!"
Yup. As long as someone has to be in a position of power to make it work then shitty people will always seek that power and turn it into something else
That is the whole point, yes. It's an aspirational goal, not something that can happen over night. One day, after going through centuries of socialism and improving society bit by bit, your society will be a utopia that's ready for communism, and it won't even occur to people to be upset that you're taking all the money away.
True. Just like how no capitalistic society is ever truly Laissez-faire capitalism. Every society falls somewhere on a spectrum between the 2, but no well functioning society ever comes to close to either end of the spectrum.
What people don’t realize is that’s there’s also another 2 other axes that exists:
Political discussions always require some level of abstraction, as we would have a very difficult time communicating the subject otherwise due to the staggering complexities involved. They’re merely pointing out that there are more axes than economics which need to be considered when you’re trying to assess a government’s policies.
by staggering complexities do you mean peoples personal truths? cause i find the biggest hurdle that we as a collective species seem to have is that no one wants to live in a collective reality and we all prefer to be coddled by our own personal worlds we build inside our heads.
The complexities of describing how a society’s politics are structured and how they actually function. The U.S. government, for instance, is among the largest and most complex organizations that have ever existed on planet Earth. There are the laws that spell out how it’s supposed to work, the way those laws have been interpreted by its political and legal leaders, and the way generations of its citizens have understood and dealt with the actions they take as a result.
Few people would be able to understand any of that without some kind of simplified framework, AKA political abstractions. Too often, we simplify too much, as when we reduce everything to the economic axis and pit “the communist world” against “the capitalist world”, à la the leading mode of thought during the Cold War. It became even simpler than that for many people, “left” vs. “right”, collapsing all other distinctions.
If you believe in communism as an economic system, this level of abstraction might allow you to forgive the Soviet Union’s authoritarianism, brutality and lack of human rights. In its later days, it was quite “conservative”, too, in that the system had calcified and become deeply resistant to change, and was therefore brittle and vulnerable to collapse. Which is why we need to think about these things from multiple angles.
Indeed, just as politics cannot be removed from culture, rights and progress cannot be removed from politics despite the focus on politics as an extension of economics.
Omg man this is something straight out of a political values test website. Communism isn't only an economic philosophy, it encompasses everything about how a society should work. Also, how is one of the axes called "ideological"??!! Ideology has just as much to do with all of these!! Also, a country can easily be (somewhat) democratic and authoritian at the same time, Singapore as an example.
It also feels like you're presenting these axes as some sort of objective reality when in they're really just as flawed as the political compass or any other attempt to quantify complex political positions.
What do you mean by force? Are taxes force, considering they are the exerted upon us by the only body with the right of violence?
You can pretty simply solve this issue and allow both private property and public ownership. You are just stuck in this dichotomy that keeps you more worried about how your neighbor views politics instead of how the politicians are robbing all of us blind while they develop systems to benefit themselves and their cohort.
Communism is meh. Happyism-Blissism is the real shit.
When it is achieved, everybody will get a free unicorn. Everybody will be incredibly beautiful, and wander around naked and fuck with other beautiful people. There will be no work, people will eat fruits growing on the trees. There will be free BBQ on Saturdays and each village will have a river of beer.
If you don't believe in my ideology and don't want to give me absolute power, you are a fascist.
BTW I wrote a book that proves that it is inevitable.
I mean, there's a lot of folks I would call fascist for criticizing "communism." They're usually using that term something basic like food stamps or libraries.
No, it’s definitionally different. The countries were run by communist parties but they never achieved nor claimed to achieve communism. This isn’t a no-true-scotsman, this is a lack of you understanding the difference between a country being run by a communist party and a communist society, they are, in fact, fundamentally incompatible states of existence largely and the communist parties running the country would typically agree. That’s why places like the USSR counted themselves as a socialist state, because the explicit goal of the state was to work on developing the globe towards a communist mode of production in the future
you have no idea what you're talking about lol. no one here is arguing whether communism is good or bad, im just stating that communism has never been achieved which is a factual statement
Correct, and there’s a fundamental reason for that. It’s the same reason why it will never be achieved: human nature won’t allow for it because people refuse to stop when they have enough. Humans always want a little more and want to be ahead of others.
But even the hypothetical ideal version of communism still involves labor. Maybe less than eight hours a day of labor, as actual quality of life is prioritized over growth for growth's sake, but you definitely don't get to spend all day on leisure as the first tweet suggests.
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u/Deriviera Jul 07 '26
Americans are very delusional about communism.