You wake up at 8 in the morning, you go the local farm and work the fields for an hour and a half. 9:30 you go to your local factory or manufacture and work the machines as an engineer/mechanic, you do this for an hour and a half or 2 hours then go to lunch. 12:00-12:30 you shower and then work doing some political and administrative work for about 2 hours. 2-2:30 you head home and work on your personal art project. What a “horrible” existence eh?
This always gets me :')
rip to this :(
Why do you say rip?
We currently have the opposite of their dream scenario.
It’s a dream scenario. It did not exist and hence never died.
It never ceases to bring a tear to my eye. Particularly the bit about “a weight disappearing that you didn’t even know was there”.
This is a masterpiece.
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Why does a communist society imply working both on the fields, as engineer and as administration for a few hours each day? (Not like I’d be too opposed to that, I just don’t see why it would be like that under communism.
I mean we live under capitalism right now and so our imaginations are understandably limited by what exists in society today. How would you see it then? I think the OP kinda sees humans being encouraged to take up a more generalist lifestyle instead of today’s specialist lifestyle where people have careers and professions.
Good point about our imagination being limited by living under capitalism. I honestly just never considered that… As far as I know, under socialism, people still have a specialized profession. But you’re correct, communism may well be different. Having a more generalist lifestyle is an interesting thought… Could anyone here share any sources to read more about it?
Since in a Communist society your labor power would have been abolished as a commodity, it would free up a person to any pursuit, I mean you can indeed pursue one career but why be stuck programming for 6 hours when you can do so much more with your time. One of the biggest issues with careers is that it keeps you stuck doing one thing for years and decades, that’s not healthy except for those who truly find enjoyment in their careers. Like imagine a doctor also being an engineer and does temp as a bartender or some days works at a farm.
I mean it’s not that complicated. It means quote: “while 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.”
After working on your personal art project you go to the armoury, you find me, I haven’t seen light in 7 years. “The gunses” I keep muttering, crawling on all fours, my hair moist for some unknown reason. A perfect life.
I’d expect to see that setup in a to-be communist society in a mid socialist transitioning stage. Both stages would share a (or start of for the later) end of division of labor imo esp with continued automation. I suspect specialization (but not hyper specialization as today) would exist as playing to someone’s strengths to a degree but idk for how long.
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