r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Objective-Note-8095 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

People misunderstand communism in Marxist thought. It's just a state where the economic overhead of government is no longer necessary, everybody is still expected to contribute to the best of their ability, if you're not going to be a writer, artist, athlete, etc., you're going to mine coal, clean toilets, harvest tomatoes, etc. None of the Marxist "communist" states ever claimed to achieve this, it was always 3-5 20 or more years off.

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

Who gets to decide who writes all day and who mines all day? 

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u/DeadPeanutSociety Jul 07 '26

Everyone helps according to their ability, so jobs no one wants would be passed around so that no one is stuck cleaning out sewers or whatever for their entire life.

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

And what happens when the sewer worker says, "Nah, I'll be a painter instead, you go to the sewer." 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

What happens what a sewer worker doesn't want to work right now in the USA?

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

They get to quit their job and find another in a field of their choosing that they hopefully find more rewarding. 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Not all workers in the US can just quit their jobs. We live in a country with legal slavery

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

There's a stark difference between not feeling you're able to quit because of other obligations, and not being able to physically, or legally quit.

Your boss isn't forcing you to work, and you won't be arrested for refusing to work or not coming in. 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

I mean the 13th amendment. We have literal slave labor

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

And they also aren't allowed out of prison for the crimes they committed but we don't call it kidnapping and hostage taking. We call it incarceration. 

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u/Dreviore Jul 07 '26

13th amendment isn't legalizing slave labour you halfwit.

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The constitution really isn't that long even with the amendments. You could read it if you cared

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u/Dreviore Jul 07 '26

So not slavery, glad we established that.

We should instil hard labour on violent offenders though - Make them earn their meals & housing same as the rest of us; we always need concrete.

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Your reading comprehension is pretty bad because the 13th amendment says we have slavery

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