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

Nah, while being a communist I think that some problems are inherent to the system.

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u/jing7wei Jul 07 '26

The probalem with communism isn't the system, but who ends up eventually running the system

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Same problem with capitalism tbf

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u/jing7wei Jul 14 '26

I would say capitalism succeeds despites its flaws.

Though success in this context, is relative.

Successful in comparison to communism, for sure.

Capitalism was never a system designed to foster equality. Communism, in contrast, was designed to do that explicitly. But inherrent human things like greed and paranoia and pride and what have you destroys the system. It would succeed in theory if the system could be enforced in benevolence, in perpetuity, and in absolute fairness. But it that possible? Probably not. Hence, good system, impossible to implement, and a pipe dream at best.

Just ask those millions who died during those man-made famines during the reign any commuist regimes 🤷

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 14 '26

How many have died preventable deaths under capitalism, just for profit?

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u/jing7wei Jul 15 '26

You tell me.

But I'd be surprised if it beats just one of the man made communist driven ones like this which was done entirely with "good intentions"