Before y’all shout No! let me define communism as the academic, theoretical one à la Karl Marx, not the totalitarian socialist regimes we have seen so far. Marx says:
Now let’s read this again, just replacing a few words:in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.
ERE, communism: different means, same outcome in terms of freedom of the individual?ERE allows me to become accomplished in any branch I wish . . . thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have in mind . . .