Correct, the fact that people are paid differently for different job positions that vary in complexity and importance is a factor of development. In a higher, more developed stage, this disparity will shrink, but the first obstacle to that is ending the blockade, not overthrowing socialism. You can repeat your mantra like you’re casting a spell, but your words ring hollow as you continue to manufacture consent for the US empire to overthrow Cuba’s democratically run socialost system as it’s doing right now with Venezuela.
If the only thing you recognize is purity, then you alienate yourself from real working class struggle. You have the kind of attitude of someone who doesn’t actually organize in real life, because the only things that pass your purity test are ideas.
In a higher, more developed stage, this disparity will shrink,
Oh, so the closer Cuba gets to Marxist-Leninist Second Coming - oops, I meant to say, “communism” - all work will suddenly be equal in complexity and importance, huh?
Did you learn that from Marx? Really?
manufacture consent for the US empire to overthrow Cuba
What’s with the sweat, tankie? I don’t mean this as a compliment… but this level of desperation is uncommon in your kind in my experience.
Is your loyalty to “The Party” not as pure as you’d want it to be?
As Cuba develops, it can better provide for its people. Production equipment that produces more provides for more. It’s not a random, instant snap from whatever evil fantasy you have of it to a communist paradise, but a gradual process of improving production, distribution, infrastructure, etc so as to better materially support the populace. This is basic Marxism, yes, verified in real life by real practice.
I have no idea what you mean by “my loyalty to my party” or “desparation.” The US Empire is actively kidnapping democratically elected left wing leaders to re-colonize these countries. The problem with only painting prettier and prettier pictures of socialism in your head and using it as a club to bash against anyone doing socialism in real life that doesn’t quite look like your fantasy is that you change nothing and uphold imperialist narratives about these countries.
Claiming I despise the working class is just projection on your part.
As technology improves, work becomes more similar in complexity and ease. We develop things that make it easier to work all the time, it’s just that under capitalism this is for profit, rather than needs. For the labor that can’t be made equivalent, usually reduced working hours or other such implementations are suggested.
I don’t “blame” Marx for anything, I thank him for accurately explaining the mechanisms of capitalism and how the working classes can gain control, as they’ve done in Cuba. I’m also not a member of the PCC, so I don’t know what you mean by “party” loyalty in the context of Cuba. I do organize, but not in Cuba. I’m loyal to the working classes, and support their system.
As technology improves, work becomes more similar in complexity and ease.
You haven’t actually done any damn work in your life, have you?
No, tankie, your fellow brain-addled bullshitters have lied to you - there is no such thing as “luxury space communism” and there never will be. A nurse’s job will never be “more similar in complexity and ease” than a miner’s. And technology doesn’t make any of this work easier - it simply adds more layers of complexity on top.
If this wasn’t mere abstraction to you - a supposed “socialist” - it wouldn’t have been necessary for me to explain it to you.
I don’t “blame” Marx for anything,
I sometimes wish Marx was still around - just to watch him kick you in the face every time one of you tankies try to lick his boots.
No, I’m a working adult, that’s actually why I started reading theory in the first place. In factories, for example, complex industrialization is homogenized into simple tasks that are repeatable and transferable, so they can be easily trained and replaced, or re-allocated to different parts of the production line. Tools like microsoft Excel are used damn near everywhere because it’s easily transferable. There’s a lot that can’t easily be taken from one job to the next, but overall the trend is towards relatively similar mechanical and mental functions in the abstract.
Compare making a chair by hand in the 1400s, and making a hammer, to how we make them today. Both are industrialized with similar functions, but woodworking and blacksmithing used to be specialized fields. On the contrary, the idea that tools only make labor more complex is absurd. The amount of skill that needed to be employed to create a chair or a hammer vs operating machinery is vastly different. This is by design, it raises profits to make people easier to replace. The new ease of work is used to compress work and get more out of fewer hours, which results in heightened strain despite simpler activities. That’s the problem with the profit motive.
If Marx were still around, he’d be laughing at you.
Right, right… it has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of a party elite that takes care of itself first.
Riiiiight.
Again… why do you despise the working class, tankie?
Correct, the fact that people are paid differently for different job positions that vary in complexity and importance is a factor of development. In a higher, more developed stage, this disparity will shrink, but the first obstacle to that is ending the blockade, not overthrowing socialism. You can repeat your mantra like you’re casting a spell, but your words ring hollow as you continue to manufacture consent for the US empire to overthrow Cuba’s democratically run socialost system as it’s doing right now with Venezuela.
If the only thing you recognize is purity, then you alienate yourself from real working class struggle. You have the kind of attitude of someone who doesn’t actually organize in real life, because the only things that pass your purity test are ideas.
Oh, so the closer Cuba gets to Marxist-Leninist Second Coming - oops, I meant to say, “communism” - all work will suddenly be equal in complexity and importance, huh?
Did you learn that from Marx? Really?
What’s with the sweat, tankie? I don’t mean this as a compliment… but this level of desperation is uncommon in your kind in my experience.
Is your loyalty to “The Party” not as pure as you’d want it to be?
As Cuba develops, it can better provide for its people. Production equipment that produces more provides for more. It’s not a random, instant snap from whatever evil fantasy you have of it to a communist paradise, but a gradual process of improving production, distribution, infrastructure, etc so as to better materially support the populace. This is basic Marxism, yes, verified in real life by real practice.
I have no idea what you mean by “my loyalty to my party” or “desparation.” The US Empire is actively kidnapping democratically elected left wing leaders to re-colonize these countries. The problem with only painting prettier and prettier pictures of socialism in your head and using it as a club to bash against anyone doing socialism in real life that doesn’t quite look like your fantasy is that you change nothing and uphold imperialist narratives about these countries.
Claiming I despise the working class is just projection on your part.
So how does this make all work “equal” in complexity and importance?
So you’re going to try and blame Marx for the fact that the working class and the actual work we do is nothing but abstractions for you to play with?
Since when have you tankies been loyal to anything else?
As technology improves, work becomes more similar in complexity and ease. We develop things that make it easier to work all the time, it’s just that under capitalism this is for profit, rather than needs. For the labor that can’t be made equivalent, usually reduced working hours or other such implementations are suggested.
I don’t “blame” Marx for anything, I thank him for accurately explaining the mechanisms of capitalism and how the working classes can gain control, as they’ve done in Cuba. I’m also not a member of the PCC, so I don’t know what you mean by “party” loyalty in the context of Cuba. I do organize, but not in Cuba. I’m loyal to the working classes, and support their system.
You haven’t actually done any damn work in your life, have you?
No, tankie, your fellow brain-addled bullshitters have lied to you - there is no such thing as “luxury space communism” and there never will be. A nurse’s job will never be “more similar in complexity and ease” than a miner’s. And technology doesn’t make any of this work easier - it simply adds more layers of complexity on top.
If this wasn’t mere abstraction to you - a supposed “socialist” - it wouldn’t have been necessary for me to explain it to you.
I sometimes wish Marx was still around - just to watch him kick you in the face every time one of you tankies try to lick his boots.
No, I’m a working adult, that’s actually why I started reading theory in the first place. In factories, for example, complex industrialization is homogenized into simple tasks that are repeatable and transferable, so they can be easily trained and replaced, or re-allocated to different parts of the production line. Tools like microsoft Excel are used damn near everywhere because it’s easily transferable. There’s a lot that can’t easily be taken from one job to the next, but overall the trend is towards relatively similar mechanical and mental functions in the abstract.
Compare making a chair by hand in the 1400s, and making a hammer, to how we make them today. Both are industrialized with similar functions, but woodworking and blacksmithing used to be specialized fields. On the contrary, the idea that tools only make labor more complex is absurd. The amount of skill that needed to be employed to create a chair or a hammer vs operating machinery is vastly different. This is by design, it raises profits to make people easier to replace. The new ease of work is used to compress work and get more out of fewer hours, which results in heightened strain despite simpler activities. That’s the problem with the profit motive.
If Marx were still around, he’d be laughing at you.