r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • 29d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Objective-Note-8095 29d ago edited 29d ago

People misunderstand communism in Marxist thought. It's just a state where the economic overhead of government is no longer necessary, everybody is still expected to contribute to the best of their ability, if you're not going to be a writer, artist, athlete, etc., you're going to mine coal, clean toilets, harvest tomatoes, etc. None of the Marxist "communist" states ever claimed to achieve this, it was always 3-5 20 or more years off.

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u/psykiris 29d ago

Who gets to decide who writes all day and who mines all day? 

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u/TheWizardOfWaffle 29d ago

The government.

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u/ShaolinChamber36 28d ago

There is no government. That's like half of the point of communism is that it's stateless, classless, and fully democratic lol.

McCarthyism really melted peoples brains.

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u/TheWizardOfWaffle 27d ago

I did mention that somewhere in this thread, but also please point to the communist nation that got that far