I wanted to share my thoughts.

[Reiner]

Hello.
I am Russian, a citizen of Latvia, who lives in UK.
I registered here 5 minutes ago because I wanted to discuss my thoughts.

I am 21 years old, I grew up in post-soviet era, but just right after USSR broke up (in fact I have soviet birth certificate and I was 3 in 1991).
However, I grew up in soviet atmosphere. I loved it. I remember now my dead grandfather, he was a great man. I think everyone should be like him. He was one of those few who never swear near a woman. In 40 years with my grandmother he only once sweared at her, calling her a word, equivalent to 'fool' in english. Which wasn't really rude. He would never let anyone swear near women. He always knew what was right and what was wrong. Me and my sister grown up in non-hostile environment, where everything was like in the soviet cartoons, which only have a propaganda of what is good and what is evil, to be kind etc.
In the ww2 he was 16 years old and was assisting partisans, stealing ammos and food and bringing it to them.
He was a man with great pride.

And as far as I've been talking to other people that lived in USSR (most of them did where I was born - Latvia), most of them said that most of the people back then were like that. There were street fights. But can you imagine - everyone obeyed a rule 'don't hit a man who doesn't get up' !!
Even in the worst fights if u fell down or u started bleeding, people stop fighting !!! Just watch millions of videos on youtube about people beating someone to death. IT ALMOST WASN'T HAPPENING BACK THEN. There was not much violence, you wouldn't see people walking around stoned, or causing trouble.
People all around were kind and naive.
Not all was that good, I KNOW. But what I mentioned is enaugh for me to dream about living during the soviet union.
People never worreid abotu accomodation or poverty. THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS 'I have nowhere to live' or 'I can't afford accomodation' or 'I dont have money to buy food'.

Right now I live, struggling to keep my job, so I can afford renting an apartment. Same goes with my family back in Latvia but regarding the bills (they don't need to rent anything).
It sucks here, in a capitalist world. I can deal with it, I'm not whining or crying about it.
But I also wish I lived in USSR in 1970s where such problems almost didn't exist.


Now I also want to look at communism and capitalism in different way, so I'm gonna start from far away.

Bacteria's - single cell living form. They form colonies in various places (including our guts). The bacteria that lives in us is called, if I remember correctly Echerichia Coli or E.Coli. Some of the strains can be harmless but some not. They even help us digest by feeding on elements they catch in our intestines and putting them apart, therefore making it easier for us to get some of em. Symbiotic relationships.
But enaugh about that, the thing is, they all live in colonies, made of muckus, where those on outter level feed on say, let's call it molecule A, taking it apart, those that live on the inner level, they are feeding on components of molecule A (while already not being to put it apart on their own), and if we would swap the positions of those 2 bacterias, they would die of starvation.
A colony is like a big city, where every bacteria does it's job to help the whole colony.
The wars... E.Coli fills itself with toxins and heads to enemy colony, and, when in range, blows itself up with toxins, dealing heavy damage to the population of enemy colony. Suicide bomber.
But all that for the good of their colony, of their future.
They don't think about it, about capitalism or socialism but they still do it, because that is the right way in nature.
Otherwise if every one of them was on their own they all would be extinct.

Now let's go further.
Multicellular organisms.
The first ones were basically the colony of bacteria. Every single bacteria was doing their job and colony worked as a single organism. Multicellular organism.

In fact, we are just a bunch of few trillion bacterias, a huge colony.
Even what we thinkg is a result of thinking of millions of neurons. You touch a wooden table and the while the signal goes to your brain and you "feel it", it goes through countless numbers of small 'minds' - neurons, each one of em comparing that signal to previous experience, some of em deciding it was wood, others say it was metal, but finally they figure out that it felt like it was wooden desk. And you get impression that you just touched a wooden desk by your fingers. It's nto that simple. Our thoughts - products of cooperation of millions of small computers.

Basically, everything in our body works for the good of their "world" - our body. If some cell mutates in a wrong way and goes like 'wtf am I working for everyone, I gonna be on my own and gain from it !' And it gains. It starts working for itself, not for organism. IT divides, a whole colony of them occur. We call it CANCER. A cancer tumor - a colony of 'wrong programmed cells'.

And then the whole organism either defeats "capitalist revoulutionists" or otherwise the world falls apart - we die.

Just wanted to compare our way of living and bacteria. Even bacterias have politics.
And time of evolution has shown a true philosophy for every single living thing - either we are communists (and work for the future for everyone) or we are going to be extinct.



Sorry for the long post.
Sorry for my bad English.
I will wait for replies, thank you for reading.

P.S.
I was thinking about that for a while now .. just didn't have anyone to share it with to see if I'm wrong or not.

[mel]

Don't beat yourself up over your English, it isn't bad at all.

I don't think many will agree with you here about the 1970s USSR, (because the anarchists never liked the USSR, the Marxist-Leninists think it was all downhill after Stalin) but I think the overall spirit of this writing is something we can all identify with. We all want to live in a world where people don't have to struggle just to keep a roof over their head and food on their tables, we all want to live in a world where we help one another instead of fighting. We want to live in a world where we all respect one another, and the problems of the world today are just notes in a history book, so that the people in the world we helped create can laugh at how backwards and petty we all were.

All of that said, while the example of single-cell organisms is a great illustration, it's dangerous to attempt to call that communism just like it is dangerous to call cooperative animal groups 'communist', because politics are far more complex than that. It is wrong to say that an example of symbiosis or collective resource sharing in nature is 'communist', in the same way that it would be wrong to call competition over resources in nature 'capitalist', while they may follow a similar pattern, and as such can make a great analogy, the necessary social relations just don't exist in bacteria or ant colonies.

[gorillafuck]

Sorry for my bad English.
Your English is actually VERY good:)

That was a very interesting read, it's good to hear your thoughts. While it was a bit over-simplistic, you illustrated your point very nicely.

[Klaatu]

Hi. Great ideas you have shared with us.

I like your observation that colonies of bacteria tend to poison themselves with their own waste toxins. In a similar way, humans will poison themselves in their own toxins (For example air pollution in the cities from cars, diesel trucks and coal power plants, etc.)

[amandevsingh]

Your English is in no way bad. :D

You illustrated your point very well, Comrade. This style of writing would make a nice poem if your into that sort of thing. ;)

[Kyrite]

I loved the comparison to bacteria, i have never heard of that before.

[MarxSchmarx]

And as far as I've been talking to other people that lived in USSR (most of them did where I was born - Latvia), most of them said that most of the people back then were like that. There were street fights. But can you imagine - everyone obeyed a rule 'don't hit a man who doesn't get up' !!
Even in the worst fights if u fell down or u started bleeding, people stop fighting !!! Just watch millions of videos on youtube about people beating someone to death. IT ALMOST WASN'T HAPPENING BACK THEN. There was not much violence, you wouldn't see people walking around stoned, or causing trouble.
People all around were kind and naive.
Not all was that good, I KNOW. But what I mentioned is enaugh for me to dream about living during the soviet union.
People never worreid abotu accomodation or poverty. THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS 'I have nowhere to live' or 'I can't afford accomodation' or 'I dont have money to buy food'.


Interestingly a lot of Chinese people have that view today, even the younger generations. This is also true throughout the Eastern bloc many polish, Mongolian, Romanian etc... people seem to be of this opinion.

The bacteria that lives in us is called, if I remember correctly Echerichia Coli or E.Coli.

Close it's Escherichia coli, the second term is not capitalized and it is usually abbreviated, as you note, as "E. coli".


But enaugh about that, the thing is, they all live in colonies, made of muckus, where those on outter level feed on say, let's call it molecule A, taking it apart, those that live on the inner level, they are feeding on components of molecule A (while already not being to put it apart on their own), and if we would swap the positions of those 2 bacterias, they would die of starvation.
A colony is like a big city, where every bacteria does it's job to help the whole colony.
The wars... E.Coli fills itself with toxins and heads to enemy colony, and, when in range, blows itself up with toxins, dealing heavy damage to the population of enemy colony. Suicide bomber.
But all that for the good of their colony, of their future.
They don't think about it, about capitalism or socialism but they still do it, because that is the right way in nature.
Otherwise if every one of them was on their own they all would be extinct.
Just wanted to compare our way of living and bacteria. Even bacterias have politics.
And time of evolution has shown a true philosophy for every single living thing - either we are communists (and work for the future for everyone) or we are going to be extinct.




The reason this works is because of a principle called "kin selection" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection).

Humans, we are better than that. Why does a soldier throw himself on a grenade to save a plattoon? It can't be because of kin selection. It is something more, something that makes us uniquely human.