Communism could never exist in practice. You need to be able to distribute political power so that any given person has exactly the same sociopolitical power as any other given person. And while we can absolutely level the playing field more than we do we can’t ever get it that level without some magitech we haven’t yet conceived.
…and then the technicians who understand the system will still have an advantage we can only hope they don’t utilize.
Maybe in a participatory democracy run by supercomputer that has some super-amazing indexing so that everyone can set up default voting positions easily and then customize them as they go forward. It presumes they’ll also get informed about the customizations they make so they consistently vote in their own best interests.
Until you can distribute power that evenly, you can’t have communism. You can have command economics, but not communism.
Communism could never exist in practice. You need to be able to distribute political power so that any given person has exactly the same sociopolitical power as any other given person. And while we can absolutely level the playing field more than we do we can’t ever get it that level without some magitech we haven’t yet conceived.
…and then the technicians who understand the system will still have an advantage we can only hope they don’t utilize.
Maybe in a participatory democracy run by supercomputer that has some super-amazing indexing so that everyone can set up default voting positions easily and then customize them as they go forward. It presumes they’ll also get informed about the customizations they make so they consistently vote in their own best interests.
Until you can distribute power that evenly, you can’t have communism. You can have command economics, but not communism.