(02-11-2021, 03:02 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-11-2021, 05:23 AM)Einzige Wrote:What's the natural drive associated with Communism that Communism relies on for the system to work and succeed long term?(02-11-2021, 05:15 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-11-2021, 04:23 AM)Einzige Wrote: All this is really code for "it's time to make an example of rural whites and sacrifice their wealth to the needs of Capital the way minorities have". It6just another attempt to destroy class consciousness.
The focus is on COVID, racism and the environment rather than the division of wealth. The diversity of modern problems is much wider than the capitol centric Marxist perspective. I suspect something will be done with the division of wealth, if only because change tax policy will be necessary in this economically stretched time, but the division of wealth doesn't seem to be the central issue of this crisis.
90% of modern social ills are driven by Capital.
Communism is not a method of redistributing wealth but a radical and fundamental alteration in the mode of production altogether. It does away with wealth as such.
The need for social production. There is coming a time when capitalism literally breaks down - when a profit can no longer be turned. And yet things will still need to be produced.
Quote: Marxist view on how exactly this might be achieved could be beneficial.
Communism is not intrinsically about more productivity. It is about applied productivity - production to meet need. Indeed, a Communist world system might produce less overall than capitalism, but will meet it's own needs far more efficiently. Markets are unnecessary where need can be communicated directly to producers.
Initially, labor output is to be measured in units of labor vouchers - nonfungible, nonaccumulative, non-interest bearing certificates of work that are invalidated after use. Eventually, so goes the theory, even these could be dispensed with.
[color=#333333]Will there be freeloaders on this system? Of course - and their needs will still be met, and these will vary person to person. But most will choose to produce at the very least for want of anything better to do, and because their survival will not be tied to a job (and because credentialism will largely be a thing of the past) they will be at liberty to experiment with their capacities and try a wide variety of things. And there are freeloaders today- I refuse to work under capitalism and consider this my obligatory social production. I would have worked happily under Communism, where I was confident my basic needs were being met and that labor incurred no obligations to an employer.