A communist society never existed. The USSR, China,… they are NOT communist. The closest thing to a communist society is the Star Trek era (TNG). I guess it’s nice to live in such a society.
Communism is “work as much as you can, use as much as you need.” Society must be technologically advanced to make this possible. Native American tribes were not technologically advanced.
“work as much as you can, use as much as you need.”
You don’t need technological advancement to be sustainable if your population remains relatively small and static. Hunter Gatherers actually follow pretty much exactly the formula you described above and ended up with far more leisure time than their agriculturally “advanced” counterparts.
But that is not sustainable. We cannot all be Hunter Gatherers. Society in the broadest sense should be applicable to almost the entire human population, one state is not enough. For this purpose, technological progress is crucial. Communism is not an ideology or a political system in the context of today’s political systems. It is an inevitable evolution (not a revolution) in human progress.
A communist society never existed. The USSR, China,… they are NOT communist. The closest thing to a communist society is the Star Trek era (TNG). I guess it’s nice to live in such a society.
I thought there were some native American tribes that were communist.
Communism is “work as much as you can, use as much as you need.” Society must be technologically advanced to make this possible. Native American tribes were not technologically advanced.
You don’t need technological advancement to be sustainable if your population remains relatively small and static. Hunter Gatherers actually follow pretty much exactly the formula you described above and ended up with far more leisure time than their agriculturally “advanced” counterparts.
But that is not sustainable. We cannot all be Hunter Gatherers. Society in the broadest sense should be applicable to almost the entire human population, one state is not enough. For this purpose, technological progress is crucial. Communism is not an ideology or a political system in the context of today’s political systems. It is an inevitable evolution (not a revolution) in human progress.