• prole [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    701·
    6 days ago

    I’m a communist because it makes sense. I don’t even need to like people to know that we gotta work together to accomplish great things and the best way to do that is ensure everyone has what they need to live day-to-day and long-term. Anything less than that seems like we’re giving up on ourselves (humanity) and letting the worst humans decide our fate.

    Genuinely, communism makes perfect sense and any resistance to it comes from ignorance, misinformation/indoctrination, or the idea that communism is going to take away their wealth. For some of them that last one is true

    • theturtlemoves [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      6 days ago

      Communism is really the most minimal demand

      What is nearest, reasonable, the middle term.

      Whoever is opposed to it is not someone who thinks otherwise

      It is someone who does not think or who thinks only about himself.

        • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          17·
          6 days ago

          Thanks for attributing it. I was wondering if I had heard/read those lines before.

          If anyone is interested, it’s part of a longer poem Communism is the Middle Term. Here it is in full:

          To call for the overthrow of the existing order
          May seem a terrible thing
          But what exists is no order.
          To seek refuge in violence
          May seem evil.
          But what is constantly at work is violence
          And there is nothing special about it.
          Communism is not the extreme outlier
          That only in a small part can be realized,
          and until it is not completely realized,
          The situation is unbearable
          Even for someone who is insensitive.
          Communism is really the most minimal demand
          What is nearest, reasonable, the middle term.
          Whoever is opposed to it is not someone who thinks otherwise
          It is someone who does not think or who thinks only about himself
          It is an enemy of the human species who,
          Terrible
          Evil
          Insensitive
          And, in particular,
          Wanting the most extreme, realised even in the tiniest part,
          Plunges all humankind into destruction.