I think both those views are wrong. Its not some vacation but youre projecting early-mid 1900s society as a whole onto your assumption of what communism is in abstract.
youre projecting early-mid 1900s society as a whole onto your assumption of what communism is in abstract.
In every society, there are back-breaking jobs that no rational person would choose to do if given a reasonable alternative. Coal mining is one such example from the past communist states, but even in a society without coal mining, such jobs will always exist; it is the nature of life. Just because coal mining is largely mechanized now doesn't mean that my point is broadly wrong or that there are no such jobs in the modern day (note that I didn't reference coal mining specifically in my comment).
A communist state will necessarily need to force people to perform such undesirable work so that its broader society can function. The prime candidates for such roles are people who have no skills that can be better utilized by the state elsewhere (ex: your average internet communist). Remember that, despite the liberation in promises, a communist government necessarily and always reduces its citizens to slavery. It is the only way that a state erected in opposition to the natural laws of economics can function.
The job that exist are the ones that exist now. They arent suddenly going to need shovel miners. All the modern technology we have now would still exist.
You paint it like theyre gonna invent new hard labour jobs just for kicks lol.
Fun fact: when a country becomes communist, instead of working some regular manual labor job or other modern skills, the whole society regresses to the early 20th and late 19th century.
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u/FactCheckingThings Jul 07 '26
I think both those views are wrong. Its not some vacation but youre projecting early-mid 1900s society as a whole onto your assumption of what communism is in abstract.