there is no earthly way you wrote this sober

Dude I just want a house, some food, a few good books, some company, and a world that’s not on fire.

Keep your coffee and chocolate.

We have no choice but to abandon Communism.

A few contradictions in this scenario.

1. I am confused as to which one of these conditions is true. They are mutually exclusive.

• Colonialist with chocolate -> Communism in one country
• NOT Colonialist with NO chocolate -> Global communism

2. In the case of global communism, colonialism cannot truly exist. Either nation-states have been abolished, or at a minimum, there would free and unrestricted movement between administrative regions. If there is some kind of exploitative relationship between different administration regions, then you have not achieved communism.

3. If it's only been 7 days, we can't really jump to conclusions based on one warehouse being out of some products. A similar case with the iPhone, they are released on a yearly cadence, not a weekly cadence. So it remains to be seen what will become of the iPhone.

4. This is the real doozy. In your scenario, we have completed what I understand to be a global proletarian revolution in a matter of 7 days! That revolutionary movement, whether we are talking about the Party, the Vanguard, the trade unions, a system of confederated communes -- it doesn't matter the form -- in any variation of communism, to accomplish a revolution in 7 days would require virtually flawless execution of the revolutionary conflicts/wars, vast global communication network, global-scale political organizing capacity, overwhelming popular support of a class-conscious, mobilized working-class, and of course, dozens and dozens if not hundreds of brilliant revolutionary leaders.

   HOW then is it possible, that upon having succeeded in this truly astounding feat of a one-week global revolution, no one of the billions of class-conscious communists that supported the revolution would have thought to raise the idea that there would need to be some kind of plan for the day after the revolution? Or that all of these brilliant revolutionaries leaders decided to retire and the well-oiled, perfectly humming Party apparatus dissolved immediately into a herd of cats?

I wanna say good post but I feel like there's a good chance this is pasta or some level of irony beyond my comprehension

Is your take really that chocolate wouldn't exist under communism because the only way chocolate can exist is if exploited workers produce it?

Sounds like you want to own all the other leftists so you're desperately grasping for reasons to scold everyone else and prove you're actually the real leftist because you will go without candy bars after the revolution. The leftist project isn't a means to carry out petty personal grievances against people you don't like. You paint a caricature and then scream at it, comforted by your superiority. The lazy, comfortable leftist will be punished in the end.

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this is wrecker bullshit and you know it

global trade in commodities and techno-determinism through mass communications would make more sense without the incalculable history of genocidal nationalism... but then again those first two things wouldn't even exist in such a case

Fra Contidini - Errico Malatesta:

Bert: You say everybody would make an effort, but I think that nobody would want to do the heavy jobs, they’d all want to become lawyers and doctors. Who’d till the land then? Who’d want to risk their health and life down the mines? Who’d want to get dirty in sewers and manure?

George: [...] Today we prefer one job to another, not because it’s more or less suited to our faculties or corresponds more to what we want to do, but because it is easier for us to learn, we can earn more money doing it, and only secondly because the work is lighter than another kind. Especially when the choice is imposed from birth by chance and social prejudice.
For instance, no town dweller would stoop to till the soil, not even the poor among them. Yet there’s nothing inherently repulsive about agriculture, and life in the fields is not devoid of pleasure.
On the contrary, if you read the poets you’ll find they’re full of enthusiasm for rural life. [...]

We ourselves, who were born here, stop as soon as we can, because we are better off and more highly thought of no matter what else we do.
But who of us would leave the fields if we worked for ourselves and found in working the land wellbeing, freedom and respect?

It would be the same for all trades. The way things are today, the more a job is necessary the worse it is paid, the more tiring and inhuman the conditions, and the more it is treated with disdain. [...]

Think of it! someone who possibly knows nothing but puns and sugary sonnets earns ten times more than a farm worker and is considered to be above every honest labourer.
Journalists, for example, work in elegant offices, cobblers in filthy basements; engineers, doctors, artists, and teachers, when they have work and know their job well, live the life of the gentry while builders, nurses, artisans, and you could also add general practitioners and primary teachers, are going hungry and even killing themselves through overwork. [...]

I’m just saying that all useful jobs should be appreciated equally and be carried out in such a way that the workers feel equal satisfaction in doing them, and that intellectual work, which is in itself a great pleasure and gives man great superiority over whoever doesn’t work with his mind and remains ignorant, must be accessible to all and not the privilege of a few.

Good post comrade. Communism for all requires liberation of all. Many of us do not examine our exploitative behaviours, or realise how much of our lifestyles are built on the back of colonialism or imperialism. We must all accept that to liberate the global south we may feel discomfort, and we must remember that the freedom of our comrades is worth more than our luxuries. This might be one of the reasons that green capitalist ops like zerowaste initiatives or freetrade coffee might be a global good: by showing that exploitation is what keeps prices low and that low impact creates high cost we could wean the global north off of many of its excesses, or at least tie them to luxury rather than staples.

I mean, I agree that a global revolution would impede a lot of first worlders' access to luxury goods. The specifics seem sketchy. Beet sugar accounts for 20% of world sugar use, was widely produced in USSR and was (and is) just another agricultural product, not associated with slave-like conditions. I don't see why other luxury good can't be produced without exploiting the workers and distributed fairly.

You're obviously entirely correct, but people aren't ready for that level of realism lol

It's very strange to me that we all understand that everything capital does is for the benefit of the capitalist class, yet, as soon as we look colonialism, some of my comrades go back to falling for the capitalist propaganda that this exploitation was done on our behalf, for our benefit.