No problem! If you want to look more into the results of planned economies, Blackshirts and Reds is an excellent and snappy read.

Star Trek is just to get an image in your head. Motivation is similar for other modes of production, labor for goods and services. At a lower stage, Communism would likely have systems like labor vouchers to credit an hour of labor, with more for more intense or skilled labor. At a higher phase with sufficient automation, this becomes less necessary to keep production going.

Capitalism is not the only method of producing Capital. On the contrary, once competition plays itself out and monopolies form, it loses efficiency in doing so. Yet, we cannot simply introduce new Competition, and to break up monopoly just reduces efficiency. Rather, the next step that makes logical sense is to fold them into the public sector and plan them accordingly.

Socialism is not “social programs.” Socialism is a mode of production characterized by collectivization and planning in the primary of an economy.

Communism doesn’t require “constant universal altruism,” the goal is a collectively owned and planned world Socialist Republic, kinda like Star Trek. There’s criticism that differences between communes in Anarchism could lead to a resurgance of competition, trade, and Capitalism eventually (which I’ll let Anarchists respond to, not me), but Communism in the Marxian understanding is the opposite of Utopian.

I don’t think bringing up Spanish and Ukranian Anarchist movements is a good way to combat notions of a lack of preservation of Anarchist movements. EZLN was a much better example.

Regarding Communism, I mean, kinda? But at the point of Communism, where all production is owned and managed collectively along a common plan, what would you reasonably want that would cause you to want to go against the rest of Humanity?

Usually the ones who say this just disagree with Leftism and thus don’t find it funny.

I’m a Marxist, not an Anarchist, but I used to be one. That’s mostly wrong.

Anarchism isn’t about having no society, but one established based on full horizontalism, like a spiderweb of communes. This is opposed to Marxism, which seeks full collective ownership and planning in a global Socialist republic (kinda like Star Trek).

COVID is real. All crisis serves as a way to force the less wealthy of the Petite Bourgeoisie to sell off their Capital to the Haute Bourgeoisie, and in this manner furthers monopolization.

In most revolutions, there isn’t an outright war, usually the millitary gives in and small cells remain. In some, there is a protracted war, but the Leftists usually have nothing to lose and the millitary is only in it for the paycheck so desertion becomes incredibly common. It’s worth reading the real histories of revolutions.

“Finally?” Organizing and taking up arms has happened for a long, long time. The Black Panther Party is an easy and recognizable example.

Thanks!

Climate Change is a provable existential problem that needs to be tackled as soon as possible.

[email protected] is the best gaming community on Lemmy IMO, it’s extremely chill there and has no “gamer” brainworms.

I try to be as simple as I can be without compromising the integrity of the points I make.

Beautiful but unintelligent people can make far more mistakes than intelligent but not beautiful people.

Intelligence, easier to figure out how to improve my attractiveness and deal with complex problems in general than trying to get smarter.

Cool! I want to take my language learning and fitness up a notch or two this year, so this came just in time, haha.

Marxism is Dialectical, it recognizes that “pure” systems are close to fantasy, sure.

As for the UK, again, the Monarchy shouldn’t exist, period, and the fact that you think the press was too free only cements bourgeois rule as the dominant factor in UK society. Money is the driver of your society just like it is for all Capitalist countries.

Taiwan is a complicated issue and will likely be resolved in a way that nobody is initially happy with due to external pressures like US involvement.

Yep, there are good spots for that on Lemmy.