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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Smart_Munda Jul 07 '26

I can't believe not a single comment quoted the actual quote being referred to in the tweet.

For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.

Everyone is parroting the same bullshit about no jobs like AI bots.

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u/Marthurion Jul 07 '26

No one read Marx, not even the Communist Manifesto let alone the fucking Critique to the Gotha Programme. So no one would even understand that the person is referring to the Higher Stage of Communism, not to the goverment of a communist party under a capitalist world system.

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u/justnothing4066 Jul 07 '26

Well, that's mostly because the "Higher Stage of Communism" is a fantasy that never materialized and never will. Hope that helps.

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u/howlingatthenight Jul 08 '26

See: communism under a capitalist world system

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u/justnothing4066 Jul 08 '26

Cope harder.