I found the question come up on both communist and anarchist subs, and the difference in responses was quite striking.
As a longtime PTSD sufferer who self-medicates to the hilt just to do simple things like fall asleep or leave the house, the idea that I would either lose access to, be forced underground, or prosecuted for my recreational habits terrifies me.
I understand the rationale is in a functioning communist state, I would no longer feel the need for those drugs. Does it follow the science of recreational marijuana, psychedelics, ADHD, anxiety, depression, etc.? Or is the ambition to ween everyone off? And does that apply for all manner of distraction and entertainment as well?
I imagine it would just be uploading to Soundcloud as your final option, unfortunately, which is one shitty thing about communism: you see it with the above comment that implies everyone should be doing art, which ignores that 90% of people just don't possess the creativity for good art. They can be great engineers, scientists, etc., but my friend who thinks "never break my heart" is a deep line ain't never gonna write Ozymandias.
The traditional leftist argument ignores that there are already sites that you can upload to "without need of financial incentive": they're called webnovel sites, and no adults read them because 99% of them suck & there's absolutely no curation nor even external attempts to sort through it, precisely because it's so unrewarding. I doubt that would change under communism, but it doesn't matter because my economic needs outweigh my artistic ones: one doesn't actually need to make the free art argument.
Anyway, labor voucher where my mouth is, read my work Urasaria Academy, see if it's 99% or 1%.
Is not the whole damn point of eradicating capitalism to free us from the perverse commodification of every aspect of human life? Like I don't know about you folks but I thought the whole goal is to live in a world where we can create art independent about whether it is good or not (and I mean the idea of objectively good art is pretty sus), but entirely because its enjoyable to create.