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  • It’s an important concept primarily because many still hold on to the “automated luxury communism” ideal, saying that the ultimate goal of communism should be essentially the unchecked fulfillment of human desires.

    I agree that it is essentially impossible under capitalism, and I agree that it essentially implies communism. However, that’s not the standard view. Ecology and planning production according to planetary boundaries aren’t necessary in communism, but I think they should be.

    I don’t see how it is “first-world-y” if it’s pretty explicitly anti-first world. To me it’s a demand that gives primacy to revolutionary movements in the third world.

    I also disagree greatly that it is “utopian,” given that it interfaces directly with physical ecological and gelogical processes and calls for planning production according to human needs and actual resource availability. It’s taking climate change, land use, and resource extraction as the starting point of analysis and molding a program to fit within and fight all of these things. Couldn’t be further from utopian.




  • I really wish there were more discussion of the topic. I think too often communist spaces can be so focused on geopolitical strife or following a specific historic line that analysis of these modern and extremely pressing issues just isn’t available.

    I’m interested in why you say there aren’t any resource issues. For example, if every person on earth were to live like an average American we would need something like 5 earths for all of the resource inputs and land usage. I see many, from socdems to purported marxist-leninists (really patsocs) saying that we must spread American living across the world, and it’s simply not feasible.

    Absolutely agree that borders being abolished is a bare minimum to help with these issues.