Just going to leave an open thread here for those of us who have already tasted artisanal, hand-crafted communism and unlike this author, remember the techno-utopian promises that went with it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/fully-automated-luxury-communism.html …
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There's a really wonderful bit of scifi by an author who travels from 1982 Moscow sixty years into the Communist future. You should read it!https://www.amazon.com/Moscow-2042-Vladimir-Voinovich/dp/0156621657 …
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Hey, the worker controlling the means of production seemed to work ok-ish for Pinboard, as long as there was no free elections to meddle with!
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I was riven with internal contradictions
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Author's British, here are a bunch of great promising American technologies and this is why we need communism in the UK. To be fair, it is probably one of the stronger parts of labour's platform.
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The morally terrifying thing about communism is the zealous clamping down on criticism of the State
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