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The primary anticommunist argument is the fantasy that eliminating capitalism would somehow eliminate human inventiveness and hard work, despite the fact that those qualities predate capitalism by many millennia.
We have a natural desire to labor intensely at whatever endeavors have meaning to us and create immediate value in our lives. Moving away from capitalism would not eliminate this natural tendency, it would eliminate the political and economic suppressants to it.
Within capitalism, human labor is reduced to a mandatory transactional relationship with an employer or corporation in which goods and services are produced that mean nothing to the life of the individual laborer, who’d (almost without exception) rather be doing something else.
Outside of a capitalistic model of society, human beings would find themselves with the time to commit their natural labor instinct toward activities that had meaning for them. Contrary to US orthodoxy, moving away from capitalism will be what allows true individuality to exist.
So much work in life falls outside capitalism’s concept of labor. Raising a family. Growing food. Inventing technology. Developing knowledge. Playing music. All of this contributes more to humanity than a sneaker company enriching itself off child workers making a dollar a day.
Another anticommunist fantasy is we would all be poor if profiteers didn’t graciously claim all land and resources as their own.
I currently live on a river. It would provide me all the water and protein I could ever ask for. Sadly, it has been far too poisoned by industry.
I currently live on a river. It would provide me all the water and protein I could ever ask for. Sadly, it has been far too poisoned by industry.
Humans are natural offspring of a beautiful planet with bountiful ecosystems full of other wild creatures with lives and existences all their own. That is a basically inconceivable miracle. Being alive here does not have to be something that is constantly painful and irritating.
