Red pill me on Communism

First of all you need to understand capitalism, so you know why these bad things are happening and why it can't be fixed within capitalism.

It takes 2 things to create a product, the means of production (factories, land, natural resources, etc.) and labour. This divides the population into two classes of people: the ruling class and the working class. The ruling class owns the means of production and the working class don't, this ownership is protected by law. Thus, the working class must sell their labour to the ruling class in order to survive. But the ruling class would only hire members of the working class if it would increase their profits, otherwise why bother? So, the wage that a worker is payed must necessarily be less than the value they produce. But, they can't do anything about it, since the boss owns the means of production, they decide completely how much the worker is paid, what hours they work, what they wear when they are at work, whether or not they get fired once their job is automated, etc. and if the worker puts up a fuss, the boss can easily fire them and replace them with a worker who is more docile.

This problem is compounded with the second feature of capitalism: the market. In order to increase their profits, the ruling class has a few options: they can increase their market share, through advertising or they can pay their workers less, replace workers with automated robots, move factories overseas where workers can be paid a lot less and can be made to work for longer hours, pay politicians to relax laws/remove regulations, pay politicians to start wars to take natural resources, etc. Now, the main point is that, since the ruling classes are competing on a market with each other, if one of them decides not to do these things, another one may, and in doing so will push the other out of the market.

Thus, the interests of the ruling class are to maximise profits, which is at odds with the interests of the working class, but the ruling class has all the power. So what next, right? Well, socialists advocate for "workers control of the means of production", which can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, so look around for different solutions.

Hope this helped!

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Why the fuck is everyone telling OP to read massive libraries, historical memes and such?

OP, ignore these raving faggots who have no idea how to appeal to people. This short article will explain why socialism is a necessity and why you've found yourself in the situation you're in. It will take a total of five minutes:
workers.org/2012/us/contradictions_in_capitalism_0223/

If there’s one thing you watch, watch this:
youtu.be/T9Whccunka4

Firstly, discard everything that you've ever been told about Marxism, socialism and communism because, chances are, it's entirely wrong. Socialism is not "the goberment taxing people for free healthcare." Socialism is common ownership of the means of production. Communism is not "the goberment makes everyone equal." Communism is a hypothetical society where an abundance of goods can be produced cheaply and easily to meet the needs of all of society's members thus making things such as class and money obsolete. Marx identified communism as the higher phase of socialism, which would develop over time from socialism as the productive forces become more advanced and efficient. No "communist" society has actually reached communism, as they were in the socialist mode of production attempting to build up to communism. Marxism is a philosophy based on the idea of historical (or dialectical) materialism which postulates that societies develop over time as a result of conflict between opposing classes relative to the material conditions (i.e geography, natural resources, climate, technology) they exist in. Marx believed that human society has went through multiple modes of production throughout its history, starting with primitive communism in humanity's pre-historic days as tribes of hunter-gatherers. This mode of production was replaced by the slave economies of the ancient empires that formed after the development of agriculture and permanent settlements and eventually was replaced by feudalism. Feudalism eventually fell out of favor and was replaced by capitalism. Marx believed that as time went on the capitalist mode of production would be rendered inefficient and obsolete by changes in the material conditions (namely the advancement and improvement of productive forces in terms of productivity and efficiency) and would be replaced by a socialist mode of production which would eventually develop into a communist mode of production, the highest phase of human development. I'm a former conservative myself and this is just a brief and by-no-means comprehensive and all-encompassing list of the things that I learned quickly after developing an interest in Marxism that completely changed my perspective on socialist and communist thought as a whole. Read and watch lectures and videos to continue to develop your understanding. I hope you found this helpful and I hope you join us, potential comrade.

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funny how you never consider why marx never finished his theory is simple he dint because is impossible

so who will ensure that bogdanov is not monopolizing with ak47 market or who will stop bogdan from establishing slave market or how i will make living if i live in city but i dont have money to buy food on market

is impossible to have real communist country even in theory

OP, please ignore the reactionaries in this thread.

Read State and Revolution. Specifically section 4. marxists.org/ebooks/lenin/state-and-revolution.pdf

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Capitalism is inherently flawed. Its faults are not due to greedy people, due to bad people, due to cronys, due to governments fucking people over. Its faults are part of itself. Capitalism without its contradictions cannot exist, but its contradictions are what fucks it up in the first place. There are many contradictions with capitalism that cannot be resolved. One of them:

Your employer wants to pay you as little as possible (in order to have higher profits for himself). This is in his economic interest. At the same time, your employer hopes that the employers of other people pays them as much as possible, so that the other employers' employees can buy as many good/services from your employer's company as possible with all the money they get. He wants to pay you little and have everyone elses boss pay them a lot. But the other boss? He wants to do the same: He wants to pay HIS guys as little as possible, and hope that the other companies pay their guys as much as possible so that they can consume like the good goyim they are.

Another big contradiction: The higher technological advancement is, the higher production levels are, the lower the rate of profit is. Capitalism does not benefit from an efficient economy. Capitalism benefits from waste, from mark-ups, from planned obsolescence. It is wasting human labor, it is wasting away our labor hours, our time, the most precious good we have. Only through cybernetic planning via socialism can we do away with this waste and advance societies at rates never seen before. Even the primitive socialist nations of the USSR and China have managed to insanely develop their productive forces with the flawed tools they have - with the tools of the 21st century, we could very well achieve feats like mankind has never seen before - IF we start to work towards production for use, not production for profit.

what do you think the revolution is for comrade?