I'm tired of Marxists who insist that communism is merely about abolishing private property and not personal property. All the same irrationalities that plague the sphere of production also plague the sphere of reproduction. When reactionaries wail that we're coming for their toothbrush, or that communists mean to enact "the people's blanket", we should not reply with feckless "ackshully"s, but proudly proclaim "Yes! We do aim to do away with them!". We will collectivize oral hygiene! We will institute public sleeping quarters! We will have public feeding halls! No, you cannot order off the menu!
Some comrades also speak of alienation as if it's a bad thing. As if walking in the human hamster wheel is in itself a bad thing. It is only "bad" because Capitalism lacks direction! When the hamster wheel turns the wheels of history we will not tread in them reluctantly, but willingly! What greater thing can there be but to give your individualism up for the cause? To turn our dyssocial species into a eusocial one?
If you think I'm ridiculous for suggesting these things, remember that Alexandra Kollontai faced similar criticisms for her insistence on the abolishment of the family, for the institution of public creches and the like. Today kindergartens are a part of daily life. We should not only take Kollontai's ideas to heart, but expand upon them. What other spheres of private life are apt for socialization? Cleaning? Yes. Pooping? Why not. Sex? The government will fuck you - literally! There is nothing of the body which is not the concern of the collective. Not even your genes. Or as we will soon call them - our genes.
honestly i dont give a shit. I just want to escape capitalism. If you want to bicker about whether it's fine for you to take the toothbrush I've been using and stick it up your ass, then whatever. The bottom line is it's a tactless discussion to have with Real People regardless of your $philosophically$ correct answer.
Retars
>>2514577>The government will fuck you - literally!it's already doing that
>I'm tired of Marxis[m]
Clearly you like nothing about it, reactionary "socialist".
Now roll off the /leftypol/ catalog.
>>2514713why do you want to withhold "your" property from the collective?
>>2515350>>2514577Revisionist state lovers will be eaten as well
We should also abolish consent and bodily autonomy because your body belongs to the party. He who does not work shall not eat and so on. Not submitting yourself wholly to building communism is bourgeois decadence. There is no possible unintended consequence to this.
>>2515370>He who does not work shall not eat and so on>There is no possible unintended consequence to thisbased?
>>2514577Yes and no. "Reproductive labor" is a bad conceptualization of the issue. Domestic labor is not commodity production. Instead, domestic labor is more like a remnant of the feudal mode of production. The solution is to industrialize domestic labor and to move from feudal and semi-feudal relations to capitalist or socialist relations.
In the case of sexuality, we see that prostitution is a semi-feudal form of labor where the buyer exploits the seller via monopsony rent. Pornography and services like Grindr and Craigslist industrialize prostitution. Intellectual property is a matter of monopoly rent. The socialist solution would release erotic art into the public domain abolishing the profit motive and ensuring that a small amount of erotic art could be produced without exploitation.
>>2515370>>2514577I agree. The goal of communism is to become a hivemind where we act as a unified mass. Individualism, nay, the mere concept of being an individual is reactionary and will be abolished. We are nothing but matter moving towards the realization of un-individuation. Communism strips us from all contradictions through entropy in every domain.
>>2515396this except humans will have been mulched centuries ago and replaced by robots who all don't give a fuck about anything.
>>2515396This all sounds like some bullshit future generations have to deal with. I highly doubt anyone of us will live to have to decide if we’re going to upload our brains into the eternal orgy machine or whatever.
Normalize saying "I'm going into labor" when you leave your house to your 9 to 5 in the morning
ideologue drivel
>how to make your politics as repulsive to people as possible 101
some of you just love to lose
>>2515427It‘s called a JOKE nigha.
>>2515450You are on the internet
>>2515394>Domestic labor is not commodity productionhouseholds produce a commodity: labor power
in capitalism there is tension between Capital wanting as cheap labor power as possible, and workers wanting as high wages and as short working hours as possible. rationalization of the production of labor power, for example public creches and schools, leads to lower wages, all else equal. in gommunism this is a desirable thing - we'll want more free time after all. the more aspects of private life that can be made public and automated, the better
>>2514577It literally doesn't matter. There is zero serious groundwork done on how anyone is going to abolish anything. The left is a joke.
"Under communism, chocolate ice-cream will be displaced by mint!" "under communism, there won't be ice cream, actually." "Yes, there'll be frozen yogurt." "No! no frozen treats! they're inherently bourgeois!" - the self appointed vanguard of the would-be proletariat
In the news today, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that anyone who refuses to take the pledge of allegiance three times a day will be arrested and deported to Pitcairn Island under new anti-terror legislation.
Ehhhmm…. I mean sure
slightly higher effort bait than usual
Cletus, I told you not to be so fucking obvious. If you keep this up, we will send you back to Elgin to shill on Reddit.
Consider this your final warning.
Op is a faggot who wants to use my toothbrush
Go be a faggot in your transhumanist discord
YES we WILL have communal toothbrushes under socialism!!!!
>>2514577Chairman Yang still screams like a little bitch when you put him in the punishment sphere. "Pain is just a signal" indeed.
>>2515870If domestic labor was a kind of commodity production you'd see the usual real subsumption of labor. Domestic labor would become industrialized with teams of laborers working together. Instead you see atomization and a shrinking of the traditional multigenerational household to the tiny nuclear family. Domestic labor is just not like working on an assembly line in a factory.
>>2516523I suppose you can resolve the issue by asserting that labor-power is typically sold at a loss (so exploited). Then commodity production could only apply to the households of the petty-bourgeoisie and certain professionals. I suppose the reproduction of labor-power would be a form of labor monopsony which is really a semi-feudal form of labor, not dissimilar to a banana republic where there is only one buyer for the peasant crops.
>>2516523>Domestic labor is just not like working on an assembly line in a factoryit should be
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