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If the communist end-game is a fully automated, post-scarcity economy, why do they run berserk whenever a company automates labor? (self.EnoughCommieSpam)

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[–]sgtlion 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seems obvious to me, but I could be wrong.

The end-game of Communism is automation for the benefit of everybody. When a company automates labor, they're removing movements of wealth to poor people, and concentrating wealth towards fewer, richer people, moving away from the ideal end-point of equality.

Communists wouldn't object if the wealth created by automation of those jobs went to the people who were now out of work and need some income. But, well, that doesn't, because that would basically be communism.

[–]KrampucheaDirty Commie -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

As the other user noted, automation under capitalism is harmful. It puts people out of work and makes it harder for people to live a good quality of life, and decreases the purchasing power in the market as a result. This reveals how antagonistic automation is to capitalism - while automation should be a liberating force, under capitalism it becomes harmful as it means people lose jobs that they need to earn money, and also cuts into the consumer market which means there is less purchasing power and so an increased risk of economic crises. Under a different mode of production, communism, automation could be a positive thing, and liberate individuals from drudgery. Under a mode of production based on commodity production, however, it's a bad thing. Really it reveals how antagonistic wage labour is to the developing means of production - only the abolition of wage labour can make automation a force for good.