As long as it’s not redfash bs. Actual communism would be great. Stateless, classless, moneyless society built on egalitarianism and scientific progress for all.
Utopian dream. Wouldnt work for one day.
Why not?
Communism? What would the motivational indicator be as human beings, to evolve, to create better/bigger things? I highly doubt the internet would had been created in sovjet russia.
Lol.
“Without a king to swear realty to, what would be the motivation for a person to plow the fields?”
Motivation for innovation is the same as it always has been, to improve daily living and satisfy hunan curiosity. These have existed before capitalism and also existed in the soviet union. The USSR was actually quite impressive when it comes to scientific achievement, going from semi-feudalism to space in half a century.
Where are you getting your ideas about communism from?
From litterally every bad communistic country that has been: Sovjet Russia, Cuba, etc. Not hard to find. I am living in a socialist country, not that far away from communism. My grandfather lived to experience communism. It is not as nice as you guys think it is. It is a Utopia, where the powerful, gets all the good stuff, and will do everything in there hand, to make sure no one gets a dime, more than everyone else. (Rough police, wide survailance, etc.) It always ends up with NO FREEDOM. Which I am widely against. There is no proof in the world, that communism works what so ever.
I am not saying capitalsm does neither. That is why liberal socialism is a thing. That works. (scandinavia)
I am living in a socialist country, not that far away from communism
What country are you from? There are no socialist states in europe
You wouldn’t call the scandinavian welfare model liberal socialism? then I have to have a talk with my society teacher at my college.
The USSR, Cuba, PRC, etc. have all been tremendous improvements on what came before, and remarlably progressive movements. Key life metrics like life expectancy, education, housing rates, literacy rates, and more skyrocketed in these countries. I don’t know where you live, but unless you live in China, Vitenam, the DPRK, Cuba, Laos, Venezuela, or even Nicaragua, you certainly don’t live in socialism.
Secondly, “liberal socialism” isn’t a thing. You’re referring to social democracy, ie capitalism with safety nets, and it doesn’t work because it relies on imperialism. Scandinavian countries participate in the imperialist system plundering the global south in order to subsidize their safety nets.
Those metrics improved worldwide during those time periods. It had more to do with the development of vaccines and antibiotics.
The sens of community, the feel of having a role in this life, thinking about the betterman of all people rather than profits being the main motivation for doing things
The word communism gets thrown around too much, especially in politics. Literally, anything better than capitalism should be the new norm. That should be what they ask in any kind of polling. Everybody knows that the word communism has been thrown around for decades as synonymous for enemy. The ignorant will continue to equate it as such. The framing for it should be, “how do we get away from capitalism because here are all the plenty proven reasons we know it doesn’t work”. Yada yada yada
As communists, we want communism. It’s better for us to break the club of anticommunism than think we can avoid it by hiding the label. In doing so, in the equation “communism = Actually Existing Socialism = bad” we should break the second leg, defending existing socialism and engaging honestly. Rather than let fascists beat us anyways as we continue to dream of an ever-more perfect world that will never exist as long as we don’t roll our sleeves up and build it, running into the same struggles socialism in real life has already been met with in the process and marring their “perfect” image.
