There is a reason the dining halls started out as this big trumpeted symbol of the prosperity of the new post-revolutionary world and then the whole program was scrapped within like two years
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I mean I dunno What do you think would happen if they came to your neighborhood telling you to donate all your kitchen supplies and volunteer for a shift at a dining hall for you and all your neighbors that was where you'd eat all your meals from now on How do you think it'd go
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"The program only failed because generational poverty led to a hoarding and shirking mindset preventing the development of true class consciousness" That's the official explanation for why it failed, and that's as may be, but I bet in a richer country it would fail even worse
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Normally "lol, commies don't understand human nature" is the worst, most obnoxious defence of capitalism. But apparently someone really does need to sit certain Very Online Leftists down and carefully explain the concept of "different people liking different food."
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Nonsense, we shall all subsist on bread, water, and vodka for the Motherland!
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I have food allergies so I definitely *do* need my own kitchen, love the casual ableism
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Under communism, people with life threatening peanut allergies are considered enemies if the revolution
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This isn’t the only model of communal eating, though. Communal kitchens were a major aspect of working class resistance to dictatorship in Chile and Argentina to the point that the governments would raid the kitchens and arrest people attending.
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Also a major focus of the participatory work folks in Barking and Dagenham, outside of London, are doing. I mean, a lot of this can be accomplished at the municipal level by changing zoning codes to allow for more dense cohousing options and land use policies.
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