A distributed surplus value is not an expoitative one.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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Which sounds all nice and good but... yeah, that's not how that went down.
Says who? Anyway, the change to capitalism didn‘t improve that.
In case you were thinking the opposite, i think we can safely assume that neither this meme nor the comments support capitalism.
Classes like the Party members, the Bureaucracy members, the Military members does not make for a classless society, and neither does the work hierarchy and the use of Taylorism and Fordism.
More importantly to the current times, "surplus" based on cheapened nature such as undervalued waste sinks may not actually be a surplus, but a loss.
the change to capitalism didn‘t improve that.
The change from State Capitalism to Private Capitalism, indeed, did not improve that.
Genuinely, isn't this just a "no true communism" argument?
That doesn't apply every time someone says that a thing is not part of a group. No true Scotsman has never been to Scotland, and no true communist society has a state, classes, or money.
It doesn't make a classless society, but it is necessary at least for a short while to establish the class rule and an actual path towards socialism and withering away of the state.
You can't have socialism without having all of people's needs met which requires repurposing the means of production, you can't have socialism without strong control during the post-revolutionary period given the counter-revolutionary tendencies of bourgeoisie/third-party opportunistic groups (most revolutions happen in pairs/chains, its the most volatile period) - that's the purpose of the period of transition.
Historically, countries such as USSR, China (though its a question if China's revolution was proletarian at all) and later didn't get past the transitionary period because of tens if not hundreds of millions of peasantoids and underdeveloped industry, having them to stay in this awkward period for a long time, which led to complete degeneration of ideology after opportunists took the reigns (like Stalin), who bastardized the meaning of Socialism and essentially caused the countries to become "red bourgeois".
It doesn't make a classless society, but it is necessary at least for a short while to establish the class rule and an actual path towards socialism and withering away of the state.
The state, likes its private corporate children, functions as undead zombies. It doesn't wither away peacefully, it grows and attacks.
I think so long as reigns exist there will always be opportunists ready to take them.
Mom, can we have political agency?
I think I'm pretty well read on capitalism, socialism, communism, and even anarchism, but then a simple comment thread makes me realise I'd need to read 10x more just to follow along.
Nah most theory is theory and not practice. Read the big ones and worry about the details after the Revolution, they'll have to adopt to needs first anyways.
Pretending otherwise is where you get into trouble.
Gotta love Hexbear magically finding their way in here...
Perfection
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46417185
And here's hexbear whining about this point. Claiming they didn't brigade but are whining about it when found out.
Good meme