We Are Not In This Together

It is us against them.

Why You Should Be a Communist

A socialist might be happy with just moving things around a bit and, say, making sure that investment banks who have behaved reprehensibly aren’t always the first beneficiaries of government welfare.

A communist wants more. A communist seeks the abolition of property, whether held by the state or private firms and citizens; they want all of us to own everything equally and become our own dictators. A communist seeks conditions to end the state entirely and have all human society collectively managed.

-Helen Razer

Important Differences

One of the differences between Capitalism and Communism:

Consider a Congolese child working in a mine for the rare elements which go into smartphones. Under Capitalism, this child is exploited for pennnies, if she is paid at all, and the fruits of her labor go to a small number of rich people.

In Communism, the child wouldn't be in the mine. She would be in school, and the mining would be done by adults, extracting the wealth of that mine collectively, for the good of their community.

The smartphone still gets made. It just isn't done with slave labor for the purpose of enriching a small elite. It is done with collective labor, to satisfy a need for smartphones.