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Under Maoism or Stalinism, aka the dictatorship of the dictator pretending to act for the proletariat? You are ordered to do it, for your own good and the good of the Party. If you don't follow orders, you just get shot; and your family is put in a prison camp, your children raped and beaten and forced to labor.
Under real stateless, classless communism? Nobody knows, because that hasn't existed yet. Anyone claiming to know exactly how it might operate is talking out of their hat. Marx is pretty clear on that.
"Dictatorship of the dictator" lol anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo
I mean, there was a time before states and classes were invented.
Yeah, where the dangerous job was "hunt something so you don't starve", the motivation for doing the dangerous job is pretty obvious.
Not if you live in any kind of group. "Why should I go hunt? You do it." And then I get excluded from the group - that could still happen.
(I'm spitballing, I know nothing about anything, just interested bystander)
If you're interested, you could look it up.
Here's a quick start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgesellschaft
I genuinely appreciate the shithead responses. Thats how I handle threads a lot of the time too.
Not meant purely as shithead responses. I can't contribute anything substantial to the discussion but I'm interested, so I'm throwing out random thoughts to bits and pieces and trying not to sound like I consider myself an authority on anything.
You are describing shit head responses.
Yeah, let's go ask the cavepeople of 30,000 years ago how they handled dangerous industrial jobs in a communist country.
That's a different topic, isn't it? I was responding specifically to the notion that a stateless and classless society has never existed.
When was this time when they never existed? A state is just a government and last time I checked anthropology pushed that back to family-ish tribes. Classes are basically tiers and you can see related splits in some family units. I think you're either going back to monkeys, or romanticising
Both "state" and "class" have specific definitions that were developed at some point. Of course you can find similar structures anywhere living things are coexisting, that doesn't mean they meet the common conceptions of "state" and "class".
Agreed. But it sounds like you care about the time before these mechanisms occurred and then my argument is that they have similar mechanisms that trace back further than the specific terms you're using
Yes, generally outside the context of civilization though. Combining stateless and classless with civilization is the hard part.