I'm down with the dictatorship of the proletariat, but fuck off if you're coming for my ketamine, 2CB, DMT, salvia, cannabis, etc. Everything I've read into and history's precedent tells me it's a pretty clear ban on everything.
And no lazy, bullshit responses like, "Well if we're in a communist utopia, I think you'll find there will be no need to take mind-altering substances, which clearly only exclusively exist as a response to captitalism."
Curiosity, spirituality, and exploring the unknown will exist in perpetuity. I just wonder what limitations will be impressed upon society.
Leftists that unironically advocate for blanket bans on all substances rub me the wrong way.
This is a (very very very minor) one of reasons I'm an anarchist and not ML
cannabis use is not intensely criminalized in DPRK and a large portion of workers in North Korea choom tf up
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marijuana-in-north-korea_n_4067341
Yeah that's pretty nice, I like that policy imo it shouldn't be criminalized at all but that's a start
This is less about AES but more about people who talk about what communism should look like and say drugs are threat to the workers and the state or w/e
there should be massive cultural education around these things, the scare tactics center mostly around America's janus-faced influence in global policing & propping up certain right-wing narcostate regimes over others. Opium trade for instance was always something our Taiwanese warlord & Turkish friends helped us out with.
but I am more apt to look at real effects of drug policy of former & present ML states. Georgia's anti-drug crusade of today is insane. USSR also never really enforced its anti-"narcomania" policy before the US' global anti-communist& anti-worker drug war. For instance, "drug regulation remained largely untouched in the Soviet Union until 1974"
I don't think people should be nodding off everyday on Fent, but we know from "Rat Park" experiment that individuals are less likely to fall into this pit of despair & dependence if there are real world alternatives to get those "feel-good" chemicals going.
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This is what I don’t like, I value personal freedom. I would say good education and support could deter addiction but I also don’t want it illegal to decide what to do with my own body.
Prohibition isn't mandated by ML ideology, but abstinence in the throes of revolution is obviously responsible so there's a reason why figures like Lenin and Mao advocated for it
Another one is: solidarity with our sex worker comrades!
However... under Communism, your sex work won't be tolerated.
sex work under capitalism & removed from socially necessary/productive & even reproductive intent very quickly becomes hyperexploitative, even if the individual sex worker claims to "enjoy" or find "fulfillment" from this work. self-exploitation is still exploitation
subjugation & exploitation often have little to do with workers' subjective "feeling" about their own line of work. and patting the upper middle class youth on the back who moonlight as dancers or sugar babies isn't even scratching the surface of prostitution's real connection to social dissolution & biting poverty in socioeconomically blighted areas.
sex work through state regulated channels or within larger intentional frameworks of social empowerment & shared destiny would be far more befitting of that idealized future. USSR approached this from many different angles, including "socializing" & regulating sex work for the poorest "victims". Additionally, explicit laws forbidding prostitution weren't added to Soviet legal codes until 1987, well into pro-capitalist Perestroika period
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