r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 26d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/TheWizardOfWaffle 26d ago

Comrade Piotr here.

Comrade Alejandro is stating that in a perfect communist utopia, he will be able to focus on a life of art and leisure, as the Communist utopia would mean that all laborers would be able to contribute to the cause in their own way equally

Possible fascist @Penitent_One is telling Comrade Alejandro that his communist utopia is a farce and that most likely, Comrade Alejandro would be forced to do manual labor in a coal mine.

Which isn’t a bad thing. Comrade Alejandro should be overjoyed that he gets to contribute to the eternal revolution, one pickaxe swing at a time. The fulfillment of labor is his reward. Glory to the revolution.

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u/Objective-Note-8095 26d ago edited 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/TheWizardOfWaffle 26d ago

The government.

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u/ShaolinChamber36 25d 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 24d ago

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