The same is true for capitalism too, though.
If you work in your own little company or if you are self-employed, then the “mission” of your work might be important to you and a source of motivation.
But if you work in a huge corporation, hardly anything you do actually matters. If don’t perform at 100% and instead slack off, there are other people doing the same work. And if everyone slacks off, then they just hire more people. And even if the whole department underperforms, there are other departments that rake in the money.
And whether the company thrives or goes under, your input as a lowly grunt wouldn’t have made a difference anyway. Even as a mid-level manager your input wouldn’t have made a difference.
Years of my work at my job can be wiped out with one email from the CEO.
Literally the only difference between capitalism and communism when it comes to that is whether the CEO wipes out my work or the state.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Most communists didn’t use farming as their primary food production. A majority were hunter gatherer societies. Agricultural nations like Catalonia are the exception.
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And yet over here it is exactly what happened. So we have 3 years during a civil war, and 60 years of a failed state.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Huh. It’s almost as if all the various alternatives to capitalism couldn’t be lumped into one… Revolutionary Catalonia was Anarcho-Syndicalist, so about as far from the soviet system as possible.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I don’t believe your country was ever under communism in the last two thousand years. I think you’re actually from a former USSR state. Not even Stalin ever dared to claim that the USSR had achieved communism, and he was an arrogant git who would have said it if he’d had a shred of evidence.
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No true scotsman fallacy. I could say that no country was under ideal capitalism so you can’t criticize it either. You have to look at reality, not make believe nations that never existed.