What commies say they'll do once they "seize the means of production": give workers a say in how their workplace is run, distribute the fruits of their labor evenly
What commies actually do once they "seize the means of production": continue being greedy fucks while tyrannizing the workers far more severely and meticulously than the old fat cats could have ever dreamed of, while the hardest work they do themselves is being pathologically petty and a giant pain in everyone's ass
Just to be clear: "The Means of Production" are the workers. Factories are well and good, but without workers they are useless.
When a socialist says: "The Workers seize the Means of Production" what they actually mean is: "The political party seize the workers and direct their labor"
For socialism to work everything produced by the workers must belong to The Party. If a worker were to make something for himself and sell it, they would be stealing from the people (The Party) and contributing to the Black Market.
Socialism literally wants to own you (like a shovel) and own all that you can make with your hands.
Yeah that's why commies despise the "petite bourgeois" far more than they hate even the most obscenely greedy Wall Street sharks,* small business owners are literally just workers who decided to "liberate" themselves.
*assuming that this hatred for the ultrawealthy is even sincere, after all Engels was an ultrawealthy factory owner and plenty of Marxists are literal millionaires
What commies say they'll do once they "seize the means of production": give workers a say in how their workplace is run, distribute the fruits of their labor evenly
What commies actually do once they "seize the means of production": continue being greedy fucks while tyrannizing the workers far more severely and meticulously than the old fat cats could have ever dreamed of, while the hardest work they do themselves is being pathologically petty and a giant pain in everyone's ass
Just to be clear: "The Means of Production" are the workers. Factories are well and good, but without workers they are useless.
When a socialist says: "The Workers seize the Means of Production" what they actually mean is: "The political party seize the workers and direct their labor"
For socialism to work everything produced by the workers must belong to The Party. If a worker were to make something for himself and sell it, they would be stealing from the people (The Party) and contributing to the Black Market.
Socialism literally wants to own you (like a shovel) and own all that you can make with your hands.
Yeah that's why commies despise the "petite bourgeois" far more than they hate even the most obscenely greedy Wall Street sharks,* small business owners are literally just workers who decided to "liberate" themselves.
*assuming that this hatred for the ultrawealthy is even sincere, after all Engels was an ultrawealthy factory owner and plenty of Marxists are literal millionaires