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< Marx would argue that socialism guarantees nobody is unemployed if executed properly, thus eliminating the need for unemployment benefits
That's wrong and also literally what

I like him quoting a desperate order issued by Lenin probably during a moment of crisis in the civil war and saying this is some type of official policy for the socialist future. It's literally the equivalent of us quoting some brutal order issued by capitalist governments during wartime and saying this is liberal-capitalist dogma.

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lol, "How come Japanese Americans are free to live wherever they want when one of the tenets of liberal capitalism is putting them in internment camps?"

It's close to the mark imo Engels did write that work would become man's prime want under communism. Although you can argue their ideas are compatible with NEETmunism or whatever I wouldn't say their vision of communism did away with work completely. Rather it would be essentially voluntary and done for individual and social satisfaction and not a mere burden undertaken for economic need. He did see the need for a fund for those who can't work in Critique of the Gotha Program too.

I don't think the writer is too far off the mark there won't be any unemployment under the first stage of communism. NEETs and Hikis certainly aren't going to be given the freedom to live at the expense of working people and I don't think it will even be an option until a higher phase of communism.

Also maybe the US today and Lenin's Russia are not the same but most of the world is extremely poor and much of it is closer to Tsarist Russia in terms of living conditions then S[weed]en.

Liberals are only "ok with the idea of communism" up to the point of it actually being a thing.

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It's called a transitional program you fuckwits

He's right on the money. Of course, were they to have a properly socialist program, he would attack them twice as hard because of it.

lmao

Survival of what exactly? Once you compromise every issue you've successfully killed yourself and not survived.