Socialism and EqualityOne of the main arguments against communism or even socialism is that the state would force everyone to be identical--same clothes, same skills, same everything. In this, our contractors are wholly wrong.Communism is entirely about liberating the individual from the shackles of self-oppression and capitalist oppression.Oppression of the self comes from the disenfranchisement that stems from the differences of the social classes; those with everything, those with some and those with nothing. We all feel it, every day. The rich and the powerful who cruise in their jets to their summer homes they don't need, their lives a comfortable existence withdrawn from material suffering--a life of vapid plenty. Then there's the petty-bourgeois that many communists find themselves in; our lives are comfortable in that food is rarely scarce, but we sell out bodies and minds on the capitalist market to survive. If we refuse than we die. The throngs of the proletariat that constantly find themselves
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