Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months agoThat's odd, me and my housemates can distribute our housekeeping jobs amongst ourselves without having someone come along and tell us what to do.
Yet when it comes to the country I live in, this is suddenly unimaginable because who would want to live somewhere functional of their own volition.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 11 months ago
It works for 4 people. It does not work for 4 million.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
You've tried?
There's this thing called democracy, where people can come together as a community to discuss issues and work out solutions - such as allocating word loads as need be. That's the same underlying principle my house uses, communication not authority.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
I’m genuinely curious, how could communism be applied to millions of people without any central authority to oversee the system? Say, the sewer need to be maintained, and the people assigned to the work by the community decided “nah, I don’t want to clean the sewer” and not show up to work, what would the community do? What if the people assigned to mining coals decided they don’t want to mine coal anymore because it’s a horrible job and no one volunteer to replace them? Will the community force them to work out face punishment?
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeh
…wikipedia.org/…/History_of_Communism_in_the_Sovi…
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
That is literally an authoritarian system.
What do you think the role of ‘ General Secretary’ was?