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thepeacockangel:

A capitalist sees a vast mansion and thinks “I should have this much”

A communist sees a vast mansion and thinks “everyone should have this much, and with improvements to technology, more efficient land usage and improved manufacturing processes everyone can”

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A capitalist sees a vast monsion and thinks “I’d like to work hard enough so I can have this much”.The communists sees a vast mansion and thinks “No one should have this much! Let’s deport the owner to a gulag!”

1. Still. Not. A. Stalinist.

2. As a small business owner who often works 14 hour days, what is with this hard work fetish?

3. If you think hard work gets you rich under capitalism, oh brother, you’re gonna be so pissed.  Please explain to me how there are people working three, hard, physically demanding full time jobs living below the poverty line?  Like are they working less hard than Paris Hilton?  Under capitalism if you want to make the big bucks, you arrange it so you get paid for the labor of others (see anyone who makes money simply by having money, especially those who hire someone to use their money to make money for them, they do no work, they just have stuff, owning things is not a job)

4. A real communist has no problem with mansions, or luxury, but believes that nothing a human can do can warrant that degree of excess while others are left starving and homeless, especially when those starving, dying of treatable illnesses and so on are often the hardworking and underpaid employees of the mansion owner.  That said, given the number of empty houses vs. the number of homeless people in this country, the mansion owner can keep his mansion, there’s more than enough to go around.  A third of the food produced in the US is just thrown away, uneaten for the simple reason that it couldn’t be sold (food that is still edible, good and wholesome).  Houses sit empty while people freeze without shelter because they have no money to exchange for them, but the house is there, waiting, but they cannot just be “given” a house, because we rely on false scarcity to keep this illusory ridiculous fraud of a system in place.  It is not even that the very rich are greedy, they know that equitable distribution leads to more for everyone and a healthier economy, but what they want is status, to have more than everyone else, something that they would not be able to maintain without having ironclad and brutal control (as they do)

5. But what’s really important here, is why are you telling a communist what communists think about a situation?  I’m the communist around here, and I’m pretty dang sure I know what I think when I see a mansion better than you. (tbh: it’s often either “ooog pretty, look at the tower” or “god what a tasteless piece of crap, did they hire Donald Trump as their interior decorator *fake vomiting noise*” along with the “everyone should have this much”)

The inevitable end of capitalism as described by Marx, the expropriation of the means of production by the proletariat from the capitalist class or like whatever