Here’s what we need to know about Communism. It was never tried anywhere on Earth ever. A Communist society never existed. The USSR was a socialist country. Cuba is socialist with elements of capitalism. Venezuela is trying to build socialism. Soviet leadership never – and I insist, never, not once – claimed to have built Communism. We were promised that Communism would be achieved some time in the future, and the date of when that was going to happen was constantly pushed forward. Think climate apocalypse. It’s supposed to be imminent but it’s always 10 years away.
The reason that not even the USSR claimed to have built a Communist society is because Communism means no money, no army and no government. Not in the sense that “you won’t have any money” but in the sense that money as a concept would go away. Soviet ideologues knew even they couldn’t convince citizens that there was no government or money when people clearly observed them every day. I’m starting to think that the Soviets only failed at this task because they lacked the shamelessness of Politico but that’s another issue.
The way Communism is supposed to be achieved is that, as a result of living in a socialist society for a long time, human beings were supposed to evolve into “an entirely new breed of humans.” That was the terminology that was officially used in the USSR. This new breed of humans would be so evolved that they wouldn’t need the “repressive apparatus of the state” (another official term) to live in peace and mutual, willing assistance. Money won’t be needed because people will gladly and eagerly share everything. Taxes and the mechanisms of tax extraction will be unnecessary because we will all understand the need to share. It will be as natural as the need to compete and struggle for status is natural to us in our present unevolved state
There won’t be such a thing as politicians in the Communist world because people will live as one and the need to negotiate competing interests of different factions of society will fall away. Of course, such a state of existence by necessity has to be planetary because if a single group refuses and maintains an army when everybody else abolished theirs, that group will dominate everybody before you can say Karl Marx.
It is obvious to everybody who is not hopelessly naive that this state of humanity will never be achieved. It is completely contrary to the human nature. Socialist regimes did their darndest to change human nature and failed most catastrophically every single time. Hoping for Communism is like hoping that every day will be Christmas. It’s childish. The idea is attractive to people with very low intellect. But there’s enough of those to keep the Communist fantasy alive.
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It is not only attractive to people with very low intellect, assuming how well people do in IQ tests matches your definition of intellect.
Extremely smart people are completely capable of making dumb decisions, holding dumb opinions, and failing to see their blind spots.
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I don’t think smart people really want it. I think they are using it as bait to exploit the gullible. In the same vein, I don’t think Barack Obama believes in the climate emergency or the importance of economic equality. These are words that have helped him amass wealth and buy mansions. So he keeps saying them. Who wouldn’t, to be honest?
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The idea is attractive to people with very low intellect. But there’s enough of those to keep the Communist fantasy alive.
Being smart and being an intellectual are two very different things. Intellectuals are not necessarily smart. In fact, they are pretty dumb mostly.
NB I speak as an intellectual myself.
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