It is my understanding that class conflict is seen as the primary contradiction at least in this epoch of history. My question is, what are the new contradictions that formed under socialism thus far and what would be the theorized contradictions under communism? What was the primary contradiction during primitive communism? Or perhaps my questions show a fundamental misunderstanding, which if so I would like corrected. Thank you!
This is the right question. Not sure if I can answer it!
It’s almost impossible to know the primary contraindications of a socialist world, and even harder for a communist world. In socialist states, like Cuba, China, Vietnam, etc, the primary contradiction may still be class or imperialism.
Afterwards? We might need to look at essential production and energy. Even if there was a revolution tomorrow, it’ll take some time to increase energy output throughout the global south to raise the standard of living while staving off climate change. For food, it’ll be hard to produce enough without fertilizer, but fertilizer causes loads of problems and uses gas. There will always be a contradiction between increasing production and finite resources. As for social contradictions, I wouldn’t like to guess.
Does this help or do you think I’m wildly off the mark?