I’m gonna be making glasses. I’m already collecting bottles for materials.

When the intellectual cadres of China were sent to the country side, these wereactivities to bring culture, science and technology, and medical and health care to the rural areas.

When the intellectual cadres of the West get sent to the country side, or wherever, it will be for the purpose of casting away illusions.

Sometimes I wonder whether these chronically online internet leftists are just spoiled suburban kids that don’t have the social skills to become influencers and merely turned to leftism because they are too poorly socialized to take the next step.

The same thing I’m doing, but to actually improve people’s lives rather than make money for some dipshit.

leading discussions on theory

I thought these guys hated theory? Also, leading? Sounds authoritarian …

making clothes from scraps and making lattes whenever needed

Do these people think that the economy in higher stage Communism will look like a loose collection of arts and crafts projects?

To answer their question, I’d probably be the garbage disposal man…

Making lattes? So they grow coffee, dry it, and roast it. I fear they won’t have much time for the other stuff. Agriculture tends to be a fulltime job.

I often do wonder what I would do. Maybe I will become a carpenter again and start building homes or something.

Anyway, yeah this just seems the person thinks that we will all live in small communes in which we only know harmony and peace and songs and fun instead of a real world with real problems.

I have come to believe that the accelerationist Nazis and the communal anprim communists have both played to much Fallout and just want to live in the wasteland.

Without further context, this kind of thing just seems to me like an exercise to get people to imagine a better future. And remember, some people are very stuck in a mindset that a better future is not possible and that the current way is inevitable and always has been.

I also disagree with this framing:

These people are why communists are seen as a joke.

I don’t think communists generally are seen as a joke, first of all. In my experience, the detractors tend to either frame them as frightfully efficient villains or woefully inefficient idealists. But even the most vicious anti-communist rhetoric seems to acknowledge on some level that communists have been impactful historically, even if that rhetoric frames it as a negative impact. There may be a distinction here between communists and communism, where the 2nd is more what’s framed as idealism and the 1st as the villainy.

Second, the wording here is “leftist commune” not “communist society”. Those who use “leftist” to describe themselves, at least in the US cultural context where this might have derived from, can range from “I want universal healthcare” to, well… ultras. There is a lot of ignorance and newness to communism within that, and being a little naive about how things are going to go isn’t necessarily the same as having firmly held views that insist we can “jump from how things are now to fully automated luxury gay space communism within a year, if only people push hard enough on being principled and not revisionist.”

I would love to bake, cook, garden, and paint. The thought of doing labor for the good of the community and not for the benefit of capitalists makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Honestly I would do whatever was needed of me that matches my skillset or if being educated in a needed field was an option I’d do that. I don’t mind if it’s not a glamorous job or anything, if I’m legitimately helping to build communism I’ll do basically whatever.

OOP’s answer is a bit silly, but the question is good… The answer that I want to give right now is “translation, subtitling/captioning, recording audio descriptions, language teaching for teenagers and adults, and something related to linguistics” — so, literally just the things that I already want to do with my life, and I can imagine many ways in which these jobs are vital for society.

…But it’s like, if there’s only limited spots for these jobs, because there’s a more pressing need for people to find other jobs, and jobs in this society are assigned based on objective merit and formal qualifications above personal interest — then I would be perfectly happy to work as something else, and only fill in for these preferred jobs when there’s a shortage in one of them, or perhaps “chiming in” during my time of rest.

All things considered, I feel like I could probably work most jobs on some level, provided that I’m given adequate training and the jobs are made accessible — which I’d reckon would be the case, since this would not be an economic system that needs to marginalize certain groups out of the workforce in order to sustain itself, nor would it be an economic system where overqualification is an endemic feature.

So I guess the sky’s the limit, then.

I’d like to use my physics degree for something good

my job will be to shoot down anarchists