The State and Revolution chapter
What is communism?
1] Communism == true democracy:
2] Communism == maximum agency for the individual and society:
Link to originalIf we can ask the right questions, it is much more likely to find the meaning of human existence. As a heuristic in the search policy space, we should try to increase the diversity of people (or conscious beings) asking such questions. - Bliss Chapman
→ communism == maximal agency (“freedom to act”) for the individual, giving people control over their own lives and society.“From the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom”: Once socially necessary labor is handled collectively and shrinks through automation (realm of necessity), people gain time, resources, and conscious control over what they do with their lives (realm of freedom): research, art, building things, exploration, the conscious, creative, collective transformation of nature that capitalism cuts them off from.
3] Communism == rational (given resource abundance):
We don’t want the bad proxy objective that is the market optimize our needs if we can just… produce what we need, rationally planned on a democratic basis.
Communism == qualitive difference in collective consciousness / increased coherence in our society / scaling of our cognitive light cone.
How could this Utopia look like?
! What will socialism look like? - Ben Gliniecki
In a perfect society, no self-discipline is necessary, because what needs to be done, and what people feel like doing, are one and the same. In a good society, they’re close enough that nobody cares if you don’t do anything useful.
→ competition replaced by collaboration (^0dd783)
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