In capitalism, there are socioeconomic classes, but in socialism and high communism, there are no socioeconomic classes. There are no haves and have-nots, exploiters, and exploited, people that have food and others who don't, people who have a home and people who are homeless, people who own land, and others that don't or couldn't own land even if they wanted to. All of the consumer's primary needs for survival are recognized as human rights. Food, housing, healthcare, education..etc, are provided to the individual by society (the collective). Lands are owned and managed collectively. The state plans the economy (the production and distribution of goods), in cooperation with the worker-elected heads of industries and production team leaders of worker-cooperatives. Production in socialism isn't for the purpose of private profits or the private accumulation of capital, it is rather to meet people's needs. If technology is advanced enough, and indeed today it is, each individual can have a very high standard of living.
Everyone in a socialist society can have a home or perhaps several homes, with some land. Everyone will have a means of transportation, both personal and public. Everyone of course will have plenty of food, access to healthcare, and education, and a job in a field they choose to work in. Every member of society that can work will work, a certain number of hours weekly. That work will become less and less laborious as technology advances. Since we work to support the system that is providing us with a high standard of living and to help support our needs, and not for wages or money, there is no fear of technology taking our jobs. Technology is seen as a tool to make production less laborous or let's say, human labor intensive. Our goal is to have technology do as much of the work as possible. What I just described now is socialism, which is the process that leads to high communism.
High communism, which is the objective of socialism, is when the individual consumer (you), is capable of producing everything he or she consumes without anyone else's assistance or input, thanks to technology. The individual consumer has complete control over the means of production or the process of producing consumer goods and services like food, clothing and even eventually healthcare as well. I embedded videos in a previous post, showing the technology that will make that possible in the future. When each individual consumer has access to that technology, the socialist state becomes superfluous. That doesn't happen overnight, it's a process. There is no more use for a state authority to centrally plan and lead production, because each individual will have the technology to produce everything they consume and use. The functions of the state, with its elections, law enforcement, all of that is reduced to the level of the local community soviets or people's councils. The councils can cooperate with others, but the authority or power of coercian is decentralized hence there is no large state aparatus.
Anyone can leave and live anywhere with their nannotechnology, if the elected officials of a community council become overbearing. You just go "bye bye" and that's it. You don't need anyone, all human relations become 100% consentual. That's what technology is going to allow in the not too distant future.
A community governing body or soviet, can be organized to manage the robots, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, self-driving vehicles, in their maintenance tasks for public properties, like public transportation, public hospitals and educational institutions, assuming they're still needed. Technology will eventually get rid of even public hospitals. You'll be able to treat yourself medically with technology and educate yourself as well. This is the objective of high-communism, which is complete personal autonomy and control over the means of production. You personally own the means of production. Socialism is the process that leads to that.
Capitalism will get in the way of that, due to its socioeconomic class structure and system of production. It requires a capitalist that is pursuing private profits, through the exploitation of human wage labor. The capitalists in a capitalist society are the pillars of society and the wage labor is the foundation upon which they rest. So when you have technology that replaces wage labor, the capitalist will create a type of techno-feudalism, where they exclusively own the technology of production, and legally control it, not allowing a worker-cooperative or any other individual or group (the public, the state or government) to use it without paying a hefty fee to the capitalists. Human progress will be undermined because the capitalists recognize that if technology advances to a point where wage labor isn't needed anymore, being replaced by technology, that will be the end of markets and hence capitalism. They lose their power and privileged social status. That's why so many billionaires are now talking about giving everyone a UBI or "Universal Basic Income". They have to conjure up fake paying consumers and an artificial market.
When technology replaces wage labor, the whole edifice of capitalism crumbles. Like I just mentioned earlier, human wage labor is the foundation upon which the pillars of capital rest. You eliminate the foundation and the whole building collapses. So that's why the capitalists want the government to hand everyone a monthly check to artificially create paying consumers that will buy their products. UBI is capitalism on life support.
Socialism and high-communism is the solution to high technology replacing wage-labor. You no longer produce for a profit or for money, you produce to meet human needs. You can create a very advanced society, providing everyone with a high standard of living, thanks to technology. Socialists aren't afraid of technology, we welcome it, because our mode of production isn't based on wage-labor. Labor and wage labor are two different things. One is waged, another isn't.
The future of human production is eventually high communism. We began with primitive communism, tens of thousands of years ago when we lived in tribes:
Life first took the form of singular celled organisms. It then evolved into multicelled life, as in coral reefs, plants, plankton, invertebrates, fish, and many other animals. These animals evolved to form communities and likewise, the human animal also evolved and eventually formed its own unique communities. Human society is born and evolves into civilization, and it's up to the majority of people to decide what's the best way to organize their labor and the production of goods that they must consume. As technology advances, it will become apparent that we can do much better than capitalism, a system of human exploitation that only exists to primarily serve the needs of a few at the great expense of the many. With the advancement of technology, wage labor will be significantly reduced and eventually eliminated hence creating massive unemployment and the collapse of capitalism. The solution to the end of capitalism due to advanced technology is socialist production (the socialization and democratization of production), which produces all of the goods people consume for the sake of meeting human needs rather than generating private profits. Socialism and high-communism is the future of human production.
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