| | {{Femino's note: this article is the Chapter 13 of someone's online pamphlet "A Humorous Remark on M=a{r}xi}sm". This is the first time I found a person who show me some details of co[m]m[u]ni[s]m. The author said that one day a senior co[m]m[u]ni[s]t pa(r)ty member wrote to him. The senior one said "Why there is no one who make a film which show us how our daily lives are in co-m-m-u-n-I-st society? " This is a very profound question.}}
The g0al of Karl M=a+r|x was to build the c[0]m[m]u{n}is-t s0ciety in which every pers0n is highly delighted. As to how this s0ciety been organized , M=a+r|x didn't think it th0r0ughly. He just gave us s0me clues: 1. "Fr0m each acc0rding to his ability, to each acc0rding his need"; 2. plan-ned ec0n-0my; 3. exterminating the pr-iv{a}te 0wnership of means of pr0ducti0n and build a system of public 0wnership; 4. no exchange of c0mm0dities; 5. no m0ney; 6. choose whatever y0u want to do; and so 0n.
Scho1ars who 0pp0se the Great Stylist M=a+r|x generally ridicule his plan is an illus0ry ut-0p-ia. They need not c0nsider its feasibility. NOw we don't c0nsider whether c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m is realized. We just think about that, if we had c0nquered every 0bstacle which blocked the shining path to the c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m and successfully built a c[0]m[m]u{n}is-t s0ciety acc0rding to the Sage M=a+r|x' prescripti0n, and after that time how do we live?
I have dispr0ved "to each acc0rding his need " in f0rmer chapters. The reas0n is very simple: res0urces are scarce. I have 0ne example on hand: The am0unt of tickets of a basketball match is just the ten th0usand or s0. How do pe0ple fetch them? Who get a ticket f0r the private room; and who get the ticket f0r the last r0w of the auditorium?
One of respectful disciple of M=a+r|x explained: in this situati0n, we sh0uld: 1. Taking 0ne's "necessary time of w0rk (such as the time of cleaning the toilet)" as the c0st; and 2. queuing f0r a whole night, acc0rding to the order of arrival, "first c0me first get". But this answer is actually the denial of the principles of c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m. Scenari0 1 is also a kind of exchange. The " necessary time of w0rk " is identical to m0ney acc0rding to M=a+r|x. And Scenari0 2 is a denial of " to each acc0rding his need". If y0u came late, y0u c0uld not get any ticket y0u need.
M=a+r|x' disciples' vindicati0n of the "to each acc0rding his need " is always that "goods and materials are extremely abundant". But neither M=a+r|x nor his disciples noted a logical flaw: "extremely abundant" is not equal to "eliminating all scarcities"
The prec0nditi0n of "to each acc0rding his need " is that scarcities don't exist. But M=a+r|x didn't say that c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m c0uld c0me into being 0nly after the day scarcities are extinct. Maybe he knew that that day w0uld never c0me. SO either the f0under of c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m lacked the ability to logical reas0ning, or he lacked the professi0nal m0rality of being a scho1ar.
Even if we admit the existence of scarcities, c0uld we build the "alm0st" c[0]m[m]u{n}is-t s0ciety when "goods and materials are extremely abundant"?
Given we are in c[0]m[m]u{n}is-t s0ciety now. Goods and materials have already been extremely abundant. Every 0ne has been highly delighted. The man Piece has g0t s0me basketball tickets. Another man Plum is a master of painting. If Plum likes basketball very much but he g0t no ticket, he w0uld naturally change his painting f0r the ticket.
M=a+r|x was very poor all his life. He hated exchanges and m0ney extremely. But his Heaven abo1ishes m0ney. This 0nly leads to inc0nvenience when pe0ple want to exchange s0mething, theref0re increases the "c0st of exchange". But abo1ishing m0ney itself w0uld not cancel exchange. Wherever scarcity 0ccurs, there w0uld be exchanges. If there were no m0ney, the exchange w0uld degenerate into primitive material-material exchange. If this kind of exchange c0mes into being, how c0uld the C0uncil of C[0]m[m]u{n}is-ts deal with it? Ignoring it, or "Cutting off the tails of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm"[1] thr0ugh the d+i{c}t[a]t(0)r-s*h/ip of the pr~o1~eta~riats?
I repeatedly p0int this out: the prescripti0ns M=a+r|x gave f0r curing the s0-called malady of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm are basically to seek temp0rary relief regardless of the c0nsequences. It is not 0nly inefficient, but entirely c0ntradicting to his purp0se. The profit merchants "get without expense" exactly c0mes fr0m the c0st of the exchange. The m0re seri0usly y0u res=tr=ict the exchange, the m0re profitable to be a merchant. If Plum has no m0ney to spend f0r 0ne ticket, and he find it a shame to take his paintings outside f0r exchanging f0r 0ne ticket, then a merchant w0uld c0me out.
Supp0se Kim is good at s0cial interc0urse. Then Kim asks Plum to lend her tw0 paintings, and gives 0ne painting to Piece and asks him to give her tw0 tickets. After she g0t them, Kim gives Plum 0ne ticket as the payment. Finally she herself has 0wned 0ne ticket and 0ne painting. DOn't y0u think the story told in chapter 4 is imm0rtal? [2]
And further m0re, Kim likes neither basketball nor art. She now has tw0 scarce things. She has the "capital" to enlarge the scale of exchanges. If this "tail of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm" has not been cut off yet, it will develop into an "ass of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm". It's so scary, so scary, very scary!
"Scarcities" can be f0und everywhere. They have nothing to do with the abundance of materials. I can cook delici0us dumplings. Charlize Theron has a nice f_ace. Your teacher can give y0ur test paper Grade A or Grade D. These "scarce c0mm0dities" which has a p0tentially exchangeable value are c0untless.
As long as human beings do not degenerate into animals, there must be s0me scarcities. Scarcities cause exchanges; exchanges bring profits; profits bec0me capitals; capitals enlarge the scales of exchanges. This is the "restituti0n of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm."
If the arm-y of M=a+r|xists exactly fo1lows their Hierarch's instructi0n, they build c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m by means of vio1ent re-v0-lu-ti-0n. Then they can do nothing but to practice the "c0ntinuance re-v0-lu-ti-0n under the d+i{c}t[a]t(0)r-s*h/ip of the pr0(le)ta(ri)ats" which is invented by Y0ur Highness M==a===0. Y0u sh0uld not 0nly "expr+0p-ri-a-te the ex+pr0+pr+iators" f0r the first time, but also c0nstantly root out the "new b0rn b0ur-ge0is" such as Kim here in order to pr0tect the fruit of re-v0-lu-ti-0n.
The c0ntinu0us re-v0-lu-ti-0n which is used to root out Kim can never be realized by pu-bl-ic suffrage. Because b0th Piece and Plum have g0t s0me "scarcities" (utilities) fr0m the services pr0vided by Kim. They do not want to v0te f0r pu-nis-hing Kim. Even if they agreed to pu-ni-sh Kim at first, then they w0uld instantly find things bec0me inc0nvenient without Kim. SO when 0ne day Kim II c0mes out, they w0uld not have her pu-ni-sh-ed again. If the C0uncil of C[0]m[m]u{n}is-ts respects fr-ee-d-0m of Kim, respects the ch0ices made by Piece and Plum, then the "ass of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm" w0uld develop into a "trunk of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm."
Many disciples of M=a+r|x c0mplain that S{t}a{l}in and M<>a<>0 Z()e()d[]0[]n{}g c0rrupted the ho1y c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m, make it the synonym of the w0rd "bl-0-0=di-n-ess". But in f_act the root of the err0r is in M=a+r|x himself, the Ancestor of c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m. If his " scho1arship" develops by logical rules, the c0nsequence is necessary a renouncement of the principles of de{}m{}0c{}r[]a()c-y. The "c0ntinuance re-v0-lu-ti-0n under the d+i{c}t[a]t(0)r-s*h/ip of the pro1-eta\ria\ts" must be d<e>s{p}0t{i}c. It must re=st+ri+ct these three pers0n's fr=e=e=d0=m to exchange. If it can r-es_tr\ict the three, it can v-i0\la\te all the citi-ze-ns' rig-hts. M=a+r|x himself didn't test his the0ry. But his fo1lowers L(e)n<i>n, S=ta-l-i-n, M<>a<>0 Z()e()d[]0[]n{}g, Kim Il Sung, P-0-l P-0-t, Enver H-0-x-h-a, C-e-a-u-s-e-s-c-u, J0sip Br0z T-I-t-0, Fidel C-a-s-t-r-0 and so on have tested his the0ries. The verdict is exact bl=0=0d-in=ess without any excepti0n.
But there are always s0me 0bstinates who do never acknowledge the truth of c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m. They say, "C[0]m[m]u{n}is-m is an ideal. An ideal is a limit to which the f_acts always close. Don't you Americans have the American Dreams?" But the questi0n is that, the American dream is a c0ncrete 0ne. It is realistic, individual, and it hurts no 0ne. On the c0ntrary, the realizati0n of the dream of c[0]m[m]u{n}is-m invo1ves f-ier-ce vi-o1-en-c-e at first. And after its realizati0n a lot of pe0ple will be of-f-e-n-d. SO just let it g0.
**NOte: [1] In the C)u<l>t<u>ral Re=v0\luti0n, any negligible things kept privately by citizens which has a p0tential pr0ductiveness c0nstituted the "tails of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm ". Emper0r M---a--0 th0ught it is a sign of the restorati0n of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm, so anything like this w0uld be c0nfiscated. This is called "cutting off the tails of c{a}p[i]ta(li)sm.
[2] That story is to show the subjectiveness of value. Because many C+h+i+n+e+se pe0ple 0nly know the "lab0r the0ry of value". The auth0r sh0uld explode this basis of M-a-r-x-i-s-m first. Then pe0ple are h0peful to accept what the auth0r says.
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