07-15-2017, 07:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-15-2017, 08:40 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Quote:The goal of communism is equal distribution of wealth.
I assume you mean communism as an established mode of production - as opposed to a communist political movement, am I correct? If so, I would argue that "equal access to wealth" is more accurate. In a communist society, everyone has equal access and ownership of the means of production. However, this doesn't mean everyone has an equal amount of things. "From each according to his/her ability to each according to his/her need". Another one of the goals is to make "work" more interesting and fulfilling, which would be accomplished by the fact that people would not be alienated from their work as they currently are; and to remove drudgery. But if a communist society already exists, then there isn't any more goals (politically speaking) since these things would exist as a natural consequence, they would follow the direction of communisms internal logic into material circumstances that featured these characterizations.
EVERYONE would be entitled to and get the basic necessities they need to keep them alive - housing, food, clean water, electricity, education, and healthcare - as these are basic human rights withheld from people every day under the capitalist system, by force. Anything beyond these things, however, would be based on your participation in whatever it is you do.
You could choose to not contribute at all, and no one is going to punish you by starvation or homelessness as we do in this barbaric capitalist society. However, when the time comes to make decisions effecting the whole of that society (including yourself), your input/opinion may not be taken into consideration if you haven't contributed or participated in the past. In some circumstances, you may find yourself even not taken seriously and yourself alienated from those who do participate and contribute.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)