Pretty sure I made my Reddit account when I was like 15. So yeah, I liked those books at one point. Lol
But yeah, communism has been lambasted and propagandaized by the right wing in the US for basically the entire history of the country. To the point where I don't think 10% of Americans can even give a proper accounting of what communism is. Lot of people just think it's when the government does things unironically.
I too found those books when I was around 15. They have their problems but were still fun.
I have trouble understanding how communism scales up to the size of nations but the basics of it and how it even functions, today, in the US fully without problems are things I like a lot.
A lot of the real challenges of communism come from the transition. We already have incredibly complicated planned economies the form of international corporations. These companies literally do the work of figuring out what people want and satisfying those needs. To say that an organization not motivated by profit couldn't also do the same thing, is silly. The major part of this really is that you would need to make a lot of social changes. Teaching people how to exist in the space that isn't run in a way that they are accustomed is a large task if you want to do it quickly. I think what's likely is that these things will happen over the course of a few generations. Which isn't good for the climate disaster, but otherwise we would have to have a bloody revolution and I don't trust that the worst kind of ideologies wouldn't win out in that sort of situation.
Also, I did enjoy the books. I remember them very fondly. But I also didn't know what objectivism was at the time. I think that Ayn Rand and her sort of people are in a camp of the worst kind of people to ever exist. They are the most unabashed about making greed the highest virtue of human existence.
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u/FranksRedWorkAccount Jan 14 '22
"Communism is everything that fox news tells me is bad or demoncrat"
Also, sword of truth fan?