Firstly, idle things are fun, and we're helping people so their lives can be more fun. Yes, you're sitting in riches, so was Engles and you bet he took the time to enjoy the privilege he had, even while devoting his life to the cause.
Heck Jenny was a no-shit noblewoman, and while she suffered severe privation by staying with Marx, she also wasn't beyond luxuries when they were stable financially.
Finally, Lenin points out that those in states of relative comfort but strong ideological convictions are the core of the Vanguard.
Most workers in lower strata have no time and no energy to militantly organise to the level of a professional revolutionary. (Though they often have substantial contributions to all levels of action)
Where possible, workers and the marginalised should be aggressively funded by the party so that they can have the time they need and take cadre positions. But this is limited, and even in developed economies where workers have better conditions, it's the upper comfortable strata of the Proletariat that have the capabilities to be most radical and develop theory and praxis.
(This incidentally is one reason the Mass Line is such a good tool, it forces the lefty tech bros to touch grass)
Because our goal isn't "everyone joins communism, works 23 hours a day on flattening every possible gradation of oppression", it's "Mankind at peace with itself, with all the comforts we can provide as a civilisation." Note that all communist states didn't stop self-development to help the nearest less-developed state, they did both.
What you're asking is a bit like "Shouldn't a bodhisattva stop all self-enlightenment instead of just the last step and take on as much suffering as possible as long as it reduces others suffering?" The answer is no, that's neither the goal nor the path and it ultimately increases suffering.
The correct way is getting people to your level while still living your life with joy and fun, not reducing yourself to barracks communism out of a self flagellatory impulse. It doesn't help, it isn't even "according to your ability." because we have hard problems to solve and it's easier to solve them at a day spa.
Firstly, idle things are fun, and we're helping people so their lives can be more fun. Yes, you're sitting in riches, so was Engles and you bet he took the time to enjoy the privilege he had, even while devoting his life to the cause.
Heck Jenny was a no-shit noblewoman, and while she suffered severe privation by staying with Marx, she also wasn't beyond luxuries when they were stable financially.
Finally, Lenin points out that those in states of relative comfort but strong ideological convictions are the core of the Vanguard.
Most workers in lower strata have no time and no energy to militantly organise to the level of a professional revolutionary. (Though they often have substantial contributions to all levels of action)
Where possible, workers and the marginalised should be aggressively funded by the party so that they can have the time they need and take cadre positions. But this is limited, and even in developed economies where workers have better conditions, it's the upper comfortable strata of the Proletariat that have the capabilities to be most radical and develop theory and praxis.
(This incidentally is one reason the Mass Line is such a good tool, it forces the lefty tech bros to touch grass)
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Because our goal isn't "everyone joins communism, works 23 hours a day on flattening every possible gradation of oppression", it's "Mankind at peace with itself, with all the comforts we can provide as a civilisation." Note that all communist states didn't stop self-development to help the nearest less-developed state, they did both.
What you're asking is a bit like "Shouldn't a bodhisattva stop all self-enlightenment instead of just the last step and take on as much suffering as possible as long as it reduces others suffering?" The answer is no, that's neither the goal nor the path and it ultimately increases suffering.
The correct way is getting people to your level while still living your life with joy and fun, not reducing yourself to barracks communism out of a self flagellatory impulse. It doesn't help, it isn't even "according to your ability." because we have hard problems to solve and it's easier to solve them at a day spa.