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¿How communism actually work in practice? (lemmy.zip)
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As far as i know, communism from an origin and tought as it on the theoretical plane has TWO Big problems and those are:

  1. Comunism tends to not know what actually is needed to produce

in a capital-less society, being, on this ideal no money, nobody can't really say what its needed, when, and how, hey maybe democracy can do a rough equivalent to that BUT not as good,decentralized and acurate as money itself.

  1. Comunism has a problem on incentives

Incentives, can be divided into by benefit,you can get something by doing other stuff, or you do that other stuff in hopes of avoiding a not so agradable scenario.

The thing is that communism, being a stateless, and buisnessless society on its end goal, only has to incentives, happy chemicals for doing something, its a matter that fullfils you or you directly need or social pressure, either good or bad, there is no other ,mostly, third way.

So I want to know wether how could it work in a modern,globalized society and how those two problems can be solved or not and on the how of the posible solution.

Btw, I want to know if im being rude or something,and my english is not that good but im genuinelly curious about how the left can solve these problems.

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[–] 9 points 5 hours ago

My extremely uninformed and non-professional take is that communism only really works on small scales. at a small scale, maybe less than 150 people, what actually needs to be produced can be handled by a few people who understand the needs of the community, or people can present what their own needs are and others can help them. For incentives, pretty much the only one is dopamine like you said, but helping out in a community and seeing the impact should not be underestimated as a motivator, and neither should reciprocity (I got helped so I'll help other people).

Larger than that you'll need an organizational structure to handle needs and potentially an enforcement structure to handle motivation or lack thereof, inherently leading to people with more power than others who might abuse that power to garner more of it.

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