Well he was a key theoritician of communism, so partly, but also Engles, Lenin, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Fanon, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, it’d be a shame if I only ever read one author when communism has been developed by multitudes of scientists, fighters, teachers and other thinkers for the last 150 years.
Any of them, If there is a classless society where everyone’s basic needs are met, a person growing their own lemons or acquiring them and giving lemonade to people in exchange for currency can still be communism and wouldn’t be a problem. They aren’t exploiting laborers by hoarding wealth derived from wage labor. Socialist systems can have markets, and small business enterprises.
That’s an “if” big enough to drive a train through.
There has never been a classless society where everyone’s basic needs are met. So, pretending that that’s the starting point for this hypothetical is a sign you’re pretty desperate.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Well he was a key theoritician of communism, so partly, but also Engles, Lenin, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Fanon, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, it’d be a shame if I only ever read one author when communism has been developed by multitudes of scientists, fighters, teachers and other thinkers for the last 150 years.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
And which of them thought that communism without capitalism allowed someone to run a for-profit business?
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Any of them, If there is a classless society where everyone’s basic needs are met, a person growing their own lemons or acquiring them and giving lemonade to people in exchange for currency can still be communism and wouldn’t be a problem. They aren’t exploiting laborers by hoarding wealth derived from wage labor. Socialist systems can have markets, and small business enterprises.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s an “if” big enough to drive a train through.
There has never been a classless society where everyone’s basic needs are met. So, pretending that that’s the starting point for this hypothetical is a sign you’re pretty desperate.