Real Communism

In many countries, free healthcare is delivered efficiently, free at the point of use. This is an established fact. Now consider a communist society. In this system, the employees in the state healthcare industry are not paid. They receive no money at all. However, the state has taken over completely free provision, not only of healthcare, but of housing, food, water, and everything else the healthcare workers need. Therefore they don't need to be paid money to maintain a happy and healthy life.

You may wonder how the state gets money, then, to build hospitals and schools, if everything is provided free, and there are no private industries or wages which tax revenue can be collected from. If the state takes in no money, it seems certain that they will be unable to pay for any new construction projects. But the fact is this: not only does the state face no wage costs, but they face no construction costs. Construction is really a wage cost paid to construction workers, and indirectly to the people who dig up the stone and other raw materials. These workers also don't receive a wage in a communist system, so construction becomes in this sense 'free'.

Now you may wonder, if the state is not paying doctors and nurses, or controlling the construction of schools and hospitals, what is the use of the state in this system? Why bother employing the stiff, tie-wearing tyrants at all? In fact, you are correct. The state being an unnecessary evil, it has been abolished.

But, you may wonder, without the state who will plan the economy? How will the construction workers and the doctors and teachers know what to do with themselves to create the orderly deployment of labour resources in different parts of society which we see every day?

The truth is this. Not only politicians, but everybody really wants an orderly deployment of resources in society. But communists don't think someone with a megaphone is the best person to do it.

The community, or representatives of the community, should absolutely create instructional, voluntarily followed plans together. They might decide that the construction workers should build a hospital that the doctors will work in to make people healthy. That's good for everyone. We don't see why sophisticated planning systems- bureaucratic, democratic, electronic, or all three- couldn’t spring up from the people, without any sort of commands, exploitative taxes, 'parliamentary sovereignty', or people in funny hats.
Anyway, the last big worry you might have is: if everything is free, what incentive is there to work?
This is a good question, and it's a leap of faith to say enough people will labour voluntarily without anything to force them to, for society to function. But we think they will. When they have comfortable lives and aren't ruined by the fight for survival, people are far from the self centred, calculating laybouts of myth. Not only will doctors, scientists, teachers, and labourers work to cure the wants and hungers of their fellow human beings- for only that reason- but out of desire for admiration, or the sense of having done something that could be admired. In addition, a life without labour is too sedentary for a majority of personality types.
The main take-away is this. People will work to be helpful, admired, and active, instead of parasitic, detested, and inactive.
Taking all that into account, then, we see that a communist society is one in which no-one is paid any wages, everything is free, the state is abolished, everyone is equal, and people work because they want to be helpful, admired and active, and enrich the lives of those around them.
This seems like a very admirable society to live in. It's also completely different from the arrangement they had in the former USSR. We can conclude that the USSR was not a communist society.

Boring thread Sage.

Who's the gay pollack with a lisp debating Destiny right now?

Are you here?

True capitalism has never been tried.

Give it a chance you fucking capitalist

Hello comrades

>In many countries, free healthcare is delivered efficiently

I stopped there when I saw the flag.

NHS fucking SUCKS.

sounds like someone got cut off from their depression disability status and has to get a job.

The people love the NHS

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True fascism has never been tried.

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MOOOOOOOOODS

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>when you kill 40 million people but it's OK because none of them were jews

Doesn't make it any better; the people also like Strictly Come Dancing.

I ain't your comrade, pal.

At least change the pic names you idiotic /leftypol/ faggots

no reddit

Are they wrong to love the NHS?
It often characterised as one of the best systems in the world
Why do you think it 'fucking sucks'?

>Communism was tried
>It failed spectacularly
>Lol it wasn't real Communism let's try it again guys

You're out of your mind OP. Literally.

Can't believe it's 2017 and there are still commies left in the world.

That's because there's no shortage of high school "intellectuals"

>communism was tried

Except no one has ever said that communism is when the government controls industries and stuff.

Im just curious why nobody informs themselves before posting thinks like this. I mean its is well known why planned economy doesnt work. I´d suggest u take a macro economics lecture and then all will be clearer. 1. You have to differentiate between allocation (efficiency) and distrubition (fair). Good Distrubition can only be obtained via working allocation. 2. You cant use the benefit of comparative advantage gained through relative pricing because there is no natural pricing at all. 3. No pareto efficient state (goal of short term planing except monopolism), nor distribution of work to the specialized or distribution of scarce ressources can be obtained. Thats the reason why a planned economy has never nor ever will be able to compare against the free market system (never been obtained in the praxis as well tho)

>you need pricing for comparative advantage
Huh?

Not even capitalists argue this

OP, I think you're forgetting that communism also entails the abolition of money.

If you provide everything free and nobody gets any wages, you've abolished any need for money