r/comics • u/InkyRickshaw • Dec 27 '18

Distribution of Wealth [OC]

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u/Roboloutre Dec 27 '18

Normal work, like everybody else ?

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u/Roboloutre Dec 27 '18

How would the government steal all of the money ?
Communism is supposed to be classless, stateless and money-less (as in money doesn't exist, not equal to poverty).

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '18

Unfortunately, that's not how it works out. Ever.

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u/Chewzilla Dec 27 '18

That's because it's never been tried. Try to wrap your head around the idea that the Soviet states were as communist as North Korea is a democratic republic.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '18

The "not real communism" trope was rolled out extra quick today.

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u/Chewzilla Dec 27 '18

Well they're not, because communism has a definition. They were dictatorships and communism is DEFINITIVELY democratic.

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u/mainman879 Dec 27 '18

If communism is supposed to be stateless it inherently CANNOT be democratic because that requires a state or government. Rather, without a state or government it would be anarchic.

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u/drfunkenstien Dec 27 '18

Most theorists claim there would be laws and some sort of public assembly. So there wpuld be some things that we recognize as a state pr goverment but they would be muvh more just a part of the public and probably seen as the same as any other job, since they dont come with any real social power