I can see why there are a lot of famous disillusioned/defecting Bolsheviks the West likes to cheer about. If I were sold on such an optimistic ideal and then had to deal with the realities and limitations of material conditions, I’d probably be pretty doubtful, too. One of the lessons we learn with hindsight, I suppose. In a way, I suppose I was one of those doubting idealists before I fully came over to Marxism-Leninism.
hits blunt “and then Man will get a PhD every week, settle on all solar system objects, use telekinesis and talk to animals all thanks to communism”
I mean people will be less stressed and more chill maybe, but actually becoming better at everything requires people to actually put in the work within the more relaxed socieity.
Yes, and I’m inclined to think there is a not-tiny subset of people who really would be tireless creatives/athletes etc under conditions of full communism, that our general level of engagement with learning, art, and science would probably increase, and there would be plenty of room for a far easier way of life as well.
