What do you think true modern communist society would be like?

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What do you think would be a true communist society be like?

I think that in a true modern communist society, should it come, all the manual or unpleasant jobs will eventually be handed down to automated machines, and research will be mostly concentrate on those machines.

Also people would be free to research and received an education of their choice regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orentation or whatever pesudo classification people used to divide themselves.

Overall, I think the end result would be similar to the society that was proposed in Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone.

Also the country will have no foreign debt or would be trying to pay off its debt if it has one like Romania during the communist era.

[argeiphontes]

You might want to check out ParEcon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics). It's one vision of how such a system would work. It's a very detailed workup.

[Blake's Baby]

It would be worldwide. There would be no 'debt' and no 'country' either.

[Comrade Jacob]

No flags, no cash, no brands, no "superiors", no exploitation and no poverty. These are just the basics mashed into a nice collection of one-liners.

[ckaihatsu]

I would use the sociological qualities of '(personal) sentimentality' and '(collective) ambition' as bookends:





I've also wondered about how everyday use of *physical space* would change, once private property is done away with -- perhaps the communization of materials, and physical space, would mean that daily life would be much more *mobile* than today, perhaps more resembling the times of primitive communism, since there would be no more uncertainty in modern "foraging".

Private collections of whatever cultural artifacts would give way to a norm of *collectively* administrating such collections, more like a common network of museums or an academia that's as ubiquitous as the Internet.

It's tough to say, though, because it would probably hinge on how much slack the people of such a world would grant to the domain of *sentiment* -- would personal possessions *increase*, in a hoarding kind of way, for expanding and expansive personal reasons, or would society frown on such harboring of sentimentality, since all items themselves would be freely available anyway -- ?

A formal economy would be good to preserve and encourage individuality, but from a strictly material standpoint wouldn't be absolutely *necessary*, as the degree of socialized life increased. Doubtless there would have to be some complex balancing of the two, in all aspects.


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I suppose it would be a matter of how "ambitious" a post-revolution world population would be. Undoubtedly there would have to be some kind of Facebook-scale societal initiative to "inventory" everything in the world and see discussions form as to what humanity would happen to want most at that point.




I'll remind the reader that Wikipedia has now documented almost every commonly known entity of information -- the same could certainly be done for the means of mass production, meaning individual factories. Every workplace could have its own wiki page, with basic information and ongoing discussions over its respective productive capacities and scheduling.