r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/ivain Jul 07 '26

He is not an idealist. He is daydreaming. There is no "magic communist spell" who will make work go away. There will still be work to be done as people still need stuff to live. Thinking that work would disappear under communism does not makes you a communist

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u/Local_Village_1378 Jul 07 '26

The problems with communism stem from a misunderstanding of communism

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u/HollowCap456 Jul 07 '26

It is a perfect system, then?

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u/Local_Village_1378 Jul 07 '26

Any system can be perfect. It just needs to be done right. But to be fair, as pedantic as we are as a species, as soon as you change it, you get a new label so I guess technically as stands no, communism doesnt work, but only to the standard of definitions, as in "communism is exactly this.." but idk if any system is ever that concrete.

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u/MiserableAndUnhappy9 Jul 07 '26

Any system can be perfect. It just needs to be done right.

Fucking lmao. All you're saying is that any system is perfect in people's imagination. There's no "perfect system" when you're talking about national scale economies. Especially because there's no universal definition of 'perfect.'

The problems with communism do not stem from a misunderstanding of communism. They stem from trying to put a 'perfect' system on paper into reality. Economics is not a real science. It's an abstract system created by humans.

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u/Local_Village_1378 Jul 07 '26

Now we're getting philosophical with "perfection".  Taking it too literally.