[Decky]

A little slow on the draw there Fuser.

[philiphos]

It is a massive straw man. Communists don't believe everyone should get the same wage so your whole opening post is garbage. Do you think the Soviet Union put the first man in space by paying its rocket scientists the same as its milkmen?

0/10 read some books.

I have read couple books from Lenin, Trotsky and Marx not many as I would like but I'm going to work on that...

[fuser]

Read this, philiphos. Its short concise and in faq format by Engels. I couldn't think of any better starting point than this.

[philiphos]

Read this, philiphos. Its short concise and in faq format by Engels. I couldn't think of any better starting point than this.

Thanka for sharing, I guess I'm going to finish reading value price and profit and start reading 1844 manuscrits

[fuser]

good choices.

Looking forward to the day when you dispose your Kennedy avatar in favor of Lenin.

[philiphos]

good choices.

Looking forward to the day when you dispose your Kennedy avatar in favor of Lenin.

If that day come is yet far away, anyway I have one doubt following "from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs" let's say that I want to have a holiday home, not a need but a desire, how would that be? Would I be able to have it? How was that in the soviet union?

[The Clockwork Rat]

People got holidays in the USSR.

[philiphos]

People got holidays in the USSR.

I know that LOL, I'm talking about a second home that i just use to spend my holidays or weekends would that be possible?

[SolarCross]

I know that LOL, I'm talking about a second home that i just use to spend my holidays or weekends would that be possible?

Only if you are a party member and jewish.

Actually I think jews have increasingly given up on communism since Stalin betrayed them which is why they don't push the commie gospel any more. They still like central banks though, it doesn't give them total hegemony over the goyim but at least they get unlimited imaginary money with which to freeride off them.

[Andrea_Chenier]

Only if you are a party member and jewish.

Are you a nazi now?

[SolarCross]

Are you a nazi now?

No, I'm only joking.

Well nazism is a thing that probably made sense in Germany of the early 20th century. Not now however because Bolshevism is dead.

[fuser]

Its good to see that under capitalism every worker has a holiday home and ample holidays to spend that time in their own private holiday home.

[The Clockwork Rat]

I for one feel that everyone should have two houses, especially in the UK where land use is no issue.

[Cromwell]

Looking forward to the day when you dispose your Kennedy avatar in favour of Lenin.

I think that, as mythic figures, they can serve complimentary purposes. Kennedy shows up the inadequacies of reformism; a man who was undermined and opposed by the establishment at every turn. He serves to illustrate the nature of the capitalist state; that it is not controlled by politicians but by economic actors.

If you want to go a step further, you can say that he illustrates exactly what happens to men who don't play ball within the narrow confines of the liberal-capitalist system. Some might be averse to "conspiracy theories", however.

...

Lenin, however, shows what men can achieve when they break the rules; the ideal revolutionary figure, with a commitment to the unceasing advance of socialism.

So, I don't think they contradict one another.

[AFAIK]

I'm talking about a second home that i just use to spend my holidays or weekends would that be possible?

That would depend on the circumstances of the time and place you live. There are already countries (Denmark?) where you have to get planning permission to convert a residence into a second home. There is no ideological opposition to the concept within Communism, afaik.

[SolarCross]

Usury is the big problem now. I'd like to take a wrecking ball to that parasite. If commies want to be relevant they should concentrate on demolishing state backed usury.

[The Clockwork Rat]

An AnCap turned monarchist is about the last person to take advice from when it comes to being politically relevant.

[SolarCross]

An AnCap turned monarchist is about the last person to take advice from when it comes to being politically relevant.

Nevermind your prejudices against the source of the advice, consider the advice on its own merits. That is wisest. Is not state backed usury the big problem of our times?

[The Clockwork Rat]

Ha. We have many problems of which that is only one.

[SolarCross]

Ha. We have many problems of which that is only one.

Well sure but the only one marxists fixate on isn't even a problem. If you are narrowly concerned with economic relations then usury surely is the most pernicious problem. What is worse?