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  • Alsephina@lemmy.mltoCommunism@lemmy.ml•Read Theory, Darn it!English
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    1 year ago

    The proletarian frees himself by abolishing competition, private property and all class differences.

    I wonder how many people today who call themselves “Communist” would actually be fine with that.
    It’s our car now, comrade.

    Communists seek the abolishment of private property — property owned by capitalists used to extract surplus value from workers, like real estate, corporations, IPs, etc. Not personal property which is property you use yourself, like your house (even if it’s rented from a capitalist; they should not own your house as private property in the first place) or your car.

    It’s all explained in the books listed.

  • Alsephina@lemmy.mltoCommunism@lemmy.ml•Read Theory, Darn it!English
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    1 year ago

    If by “post economic” you mean the abolishment of money, communism is supposed to be that: a stateless, classless, moneyless society (see: primitive communism)

    In practice, the new relations of production post-capitalism may give rise to entirely new class divisions instead — similar to prior changes in modes of production throughout history — but we’ll see that when we get there.

  • Alsephina@lemmy.mltoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Liberals be likeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    All the while the overton window gradually shifts to the far right. We’re at the point where the country is funding a literal genocide but libs still refuse to organize.

    I’d say they’d only start if Red Man is doing it instead of Blue Man, but even that’s a stretch.

    @Awoo put it better

    For the revleft participation in the system is endorsement of it.

    You can’t tell people to vote in one election and then tell people that actually it needs to be overthrown and think that’s going to happen 5 years later.

    At some point or another you just have to commit to it being broken and build your movement based entirely on the fact that it is broken and can not be supported in any way whatsoever.

    You are not convincing anyone that there is a need for revolution by telling them that actually there is a reason to participate in the system that you want revolution against. Maybe that passes among very well educated theory-heads but it does not work when you exit theory spaces and start talking to the masses.