Public spending

[Comrade Singh]

Is there a consensus within at least each different theory of communism as to what public money should be spent on in a communist society? Perhaps a better question would be what will it not be spent on? There are such diverse likes and hobbies, how will each be catered to, how popular must something be for public money to be spent on it?

[h9socialist]

Be careful -- the closer society gets to "communism" the less relevance money will have. The way your question is framed appears to suggest that communist society will simply collectivise the capitalist monetary system. The aim of communism is the abolition of commodity production -- monetary systems implicitly include commodity production, because monetary systems enable the products of human labor to be transformed into commodities. Your question would be better phrased like this: "what would a communist society establish as its priorities for production?" But even that can only be simplified to the concept of "human need." What is specifically produced will depend upon the technology, ecology and general social needs of the time -- and must be determined in a process that gives all workers a democratic participation.

[F9]

Public money?In communism there arent any money, so accordingly there wont be spent anywhere.

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