These people are why communists are seen as a joke.
Anyway, to answer their question, I’m joining the Red Army.
my job will be to shoot down anarchists
Without further context, this kind of thing just seems to me like an exercise to get people to imagine a better future. And remember, some people are very stuck in a mindset that a better future is not possible and that the current way is inevitable and always has been.
I also disagree with this framing:
These people are why communists are seen as a joke.
I don’t think communists generally are seen as a joke, first of all. In my experience, the detractors tend to either frame them as frightfully efficient villains or woefully inefficient idealists. But even the most vicious anti-communist rhetoric seems to acknowledge on some level that communists have been impactful historically, even if that rhetoric frames it as a negative impact. There may be a distinction here between communists and communism, where the 2nd is more what’s framed as idealism and the 1st as the villainy.
Second, the wording here is “leftist commune” not “communist society”. Those who use “leftist” to describe themselves, at least in the US cultural context where this might have derived from, can range from “I want universal healthcare” to, well… ultras. There is a lot of ignorance and newness to communism within that, and being a little naive about how things are going to go isn’t necessarily the same as having firmly held views that insist we can “jump from how things are now to fully automated luxury gay space communism within a year, if only people push hard enough on being principled and not revisionist.”
I’m gonna be making glasses. I’m already collecting bottles for materials.
Anprims make me unnecessarily angry.
No, no, you see; technology is bad. Not the economic system that controls it. Insulin bad, don’t you get it commie?
It would be funny to see how many would take the offer of US$1 million at the time of this writing if they survive a month in 1 million BCE but they can’t bring anything with (clothes too, they’d have to make their own). After a month, they can choose to stay there forever or come back and claim the money.
Not only do they conflate capitalism with civilization, but they also tend to be transphobic and anti-vegan.
leading discussions on theory
I thought these guys hated theory? Also, leading? Sounds authoritarian …
making clothes from scraps and making lattes whenever needed
Do these people think that the economy in higher stage Communism will look like a loose collection of arts and crafts projects?
I’d like to use my physics degree for something good
