The main left-communist argument against AESS seems to be that they still have wage-labor and commodity production. I have a few qurestions about this:

  1. Can they be abolished instantly, even in poor or middle-income countries?

  2. If not, what concrete steps can AESS take to slowly eliminate wage-labor and commodity production?

  3. How would things like resource allocation, and estimating efficiency of production, work in a socialist society that no longer uses money?

  • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I mean i would say it would have to depend on the material conditions in each case. what works in spain will not work with US will not work with china will mot work with russia. its gotta be materially based and each citizen in a different country has a different relationship to the base

    • weshallovercum [any]
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      4 years ago

      Ok, so taking the US as an example, suppose a revolution happened and a DotP was established, would you support immediately abolishing money, wage-labor etc or in a gradual way. And what concrete steps would you take in the gradualist position?

      • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        you’re jumping so many hoops with assume we have a revolution and then we have a DOTP. how? under what conditions? I don’t have the answers you want sadly, im not smart enough to forsee how itll play out because we just are that far away from any substantial left change. hate to use that as a cop out but its the truth. we need to build new theory that takes into account the structure of neoliberal core country based in consumption and never ending expansion.

        Im saying we shouldn’t come into a analysis of how to restructure the US economy without first having a materialist understanding of US and our relationship to base. revolution isn’t cookie cutter imo and removing dogma when deciding how to approach any country is vital.