What's Your Job on the Leftist Commune? - Comments

Right do this for gotcha moment as if they plan it, the fact is Left are always the one calling the shot:,

Bruh

If TiTS is anything to go by, probably fucking anything and everything with a hole in all its holes at once with my 10 4-ft long cocks.

Comrade, work safety and human rights for workers are imaginations and perversions of the bourgeois. Off to the Uranium mines with you!

Soviet Work Safety poster. Your casual contempt for our glorious workers is a sign of reactionary thinking. Report for reeducation

*wealthy corporatists

The closest I can think of was during Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. Agriculture produced surplus food, and the military was uncontested in the region.

>I've been wondering if there is any form of economy that actually results in a surplus

This might sound like a good thing, but an efficient economy wouldn't have surplus, surplus is excess and it isn't a good thing. A free market in theory can generate a shortage despite they're existing surplus because it's a matter of distribution. In theory, a market would naturally balance itself so supply and demand comes to an equilibrium, although albeit it's not instant. The consequence of the free market isn't that it will provide for everyone, it's to ideally have the supply match with the demand, having a surplus goes against that. But I suppose surplus is good because that would mean that you can give the good to a larger amount of people, however the inefficiency comes because you can only make good to all the surplus if people actually bothers to use the good, and because it's a surplus it would naturally not be used fully by everyone even if you give them to everyone for free.

Additionally, just because someone has a surplus of something, that doesn't mean they are making good out of it.

No. The key assumption of economics is that there is only a limited amount of goods to satisfy unlimited human desire. Even if you provide a surplus today, in about ten years, the people will have grown to encompass that surplus and then some.

Capitalism end up soon into feudalism.

As someone that took a class on Marx just to fill out a college schedule and get credits, my professor from that class and by extension the ghost of Marx and Engels would be laughing at these people. To quote my professor on this: in the commune, someone has to clean the toilets. The people who go on how they'll be doing a job in the commune should realize that the point of the commune at least is as you said: the work's more evenly distributed and there will still be manual labor because someone has to do things like farming, heavy lifting, and the like.

>more time for the previously full time laborers to follow their passions due to more of the work being given to those profiting off of work they didn't have to do

Eh, I think that's even a pretty dubious claim. Maybe in Marx's time things were different, but these days the amount of completely idle rich people is very low. If they all got put to work doing manual labour it would not have much of an impact on the amount of work everyone else needs to do. The super wealthy people these days are largely ones who own large shares of big companies, but they still also work pretty excessively long hours themselves. If you re-allocated Elon Musk from doing 60 hours or whatever he does in his current job as CEO to sweeping floors or working on an assembly line, it's not going to free up lots of time for the existing janitors or assembly-line workers.

If anything, if you followed a socialist model of worker-ownership, workers would probably have to give even more of their time to their jobs since they have the responsibility of making big decisions for the company and not just clocking out at the end of the day like most of us do now.

. . . Theatre?

There are no theaters, only coal mines.

Get back to work, comrade.

There were though

There was, you could be the guy in charge of approving scripts or blacklisting authors and directors for 'subversive' texts.

And they say the Us and USSR were different

everyone will get a house under socialism all right

sharing it wit 500 other families

That's better than being homeless

Not by much though.

You've clearly never been homeless

More so if such a building is safe to live in and everyone has enough space and the like while they and their neighbors don't end up at each others throats.

Communism doesn't work
FTFY

Neither does capitalism
the "guiding hand" is just as imaginary as people all working together just to help eachother

Can we just have Helios already

The guiding hand is revisionist history that isn’t even found in any of the volumes of Adam Smith’s the wealth of nations. Capitalism isn’t a system meant to bring happiness or common good, it’s merely to facilitate human action through voluntary means of exchange