Submitted by Articuno in Communism

Hey you

yes

you

I mean you personally, you reading this, you that call for liberation from the shackles of capitalism. That is until your own comfort is put into question. Then, you're not that different from Elon Musk or Bill Gates. Yes,

Musk

Want to know why? It's very simple really. But first we need a

Picture

Day 7 of the revolution. Communism is no longer a feeble dream but a palpable reality. You go to local warehouse to pick up some basics, sugar, milk, coffee, and maybe some chocolate. because

why not?

What's this? No sugar, no coffee, no chocolate? We're in commieland! All these should be readily available, what gives?! Turns out when you liberate all workers it means

ALL WORKERS

People enslaved to the land making it birth sugar cane, cocoa, and coffee, with no other choice or opportunity in life. In cases, some have tried only to have their bodies turn into munch, you know, as a warning.

Now that they have choices, what makes you think that they would remain in the plantation that embodied their whole life suffering, backbreaking labor to not enough to eat. And even still, the few pessimistic enough to remain, willing to till the unscorched plots of land, why would they send the few of their produce to

you?

But you don't mind that, deals could be made, you say. But that's not all, no, no no, there's something that hurts more than lacking your morning coffee or your weekly choco treat.

No NEW iphones

You know and are aware of the levels upon levels of exploitation and slavery are needed to make your little spy gadget. Yet, when you proclaim worker liberation, you cannot phantom the liberation of someone other than yourself. Because in doing so, you will have to admit that your life will change, that you will have to face personal sacrifices, personal discomforts, personal loss. Which is why every time someone points out industrialization will end, you swallow hard and scream

Primitivist!!! Primitivist!!!

to which I scream back

Colonialist!!! Colonialist!!!

Your desire to keep your life unfazed, but enhanced to star trek like conditions require the subjugation of the third world, the havers of raw material and infrastructure to build and hands to do it. By being unwilling letting go of your earthly tethers, you proclaim nothing more than communism for the first world, rugged capitalism for the third.

Our liberation does not require subservience to you in the north. So when you screen turns itself down one last time, and you get to see your sad little self in the black mirror, remember

You wanted this

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MHC wrote

Kinda poetic.

I was active in a supposedly socialist party. It turned out to be run by unreconstructed old time communists. I complained that a leader coudn't bring themselves to answer an ordinary member's email. So that Leninist and friends expelled me. Getting to be top pig in animal farm, was all that appealed to them!

So in a supposedly anarchist club, I find an official hung up on their seniority. Shut up until you've been around decades, I was told. Old time commie thinking, stuck in the 19th Century, I thought.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

I don't like coffee, and sweets have never been my thing. I hate apple, and cannot afford the phones.

So yes, this is what I want, I guess.

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