No, capitalism and communism are fundamentally different.

This isn't about automation, it's about community.

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Technology creates community. Always has. Agriculture, tools, science. Politics is downstream from culture but what people fail to add is that culture is downstream from technology. We build things and then create a story around then in order to integrate them and pretend that culture created them. This is why so many people's last names stem from old work occupations. Society is only interested in you as far as your are useful to it. Technology is extremely useful and a good technology will force society to lie to itself and change just to adopt it. Automation will do the same thing. You'll see people who were anti communism go full entitlement as soon as there is no need for their labor anymore.

Communism really isn't about community though. Communal community isn't. It's about the abolition of private property above anything else.

The reason it never gets past the totalitarian shithole phase is because after some humans hoarded all the power and disempowered everyone else, guess what, they don't want to let go of it.

Communism always leads to violence, unless it's small scale and voluntary opt-in. Think about it, how are the commies gonna abolish private property? By expropriating everyone's stuff.

Do people generally want to lose all their possessions and accumulated capital? No they don't, and for very good reasons.

So they must be forced to do so, and predictably violence follows.

It is no surprise then that Communism tops the charts for genocide and mass-murder by a very large margin.

I'm not arguing for communism, I am understanding why some may be drawn to it.

We have a real lack of community and community support in the modern world. This puts a hole is people's lives and I understand why they would want a different, more supporting structure to the world.

I understand.

I am saying that the ideology that ends up killing millions of people every time is probably not the way to get there.

Agreed.