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Turned? Have you ever heard of the Rockefeller and Morgan families?

You then just have to figure out how to stop, preferably without killing any life that may have already evolved there.

just 40 light-years from Earth

The word “just” is doing a lot of work here.

If you’re looking for an actual self interest element, they may be planning to start a new company selling a related product, and doing this creates some amount of goodwill.

Your impression is basically the Trotskyist view.

Stalin himself answered your question in an interview with an American reporter some time ago.

Yes , you are right, we have not yet built communist society. It is not so easy to build such a society. You are probably aware of the difference between socialist society and communist society. In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed. That is why wages, and, moreover, unequal, differentiated wages, still exist. Only when we have succeeded in creating a system under which, in return for their labour, people will receive from society, not according to the quantity and quality of the labour they perform, but according to their requirements, will it be possible to say that we have built communist society.

You say that in order t o build our socialist society we sacrificed personal liberty and suffered privation.

Your question suggests that socialist society denies personal liberty. That is not true. Of course, in order to build something new one must economize, accumulate resources, reduce one’s consumption for a time and borrow from others. If one wants to build a house one saves up money, cuts down consumption for a time, otherwise the house would never be built.

How much more true is this when it is a matter of building a new human society? We had to cut down consumption somewhat for a time, collect the necessary resources and exert great effort. This is exactly what we did and we built a socialist society.

But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/03/01.htm

The confusion is between communism as an economic system and communism (more properly, Marxism-Leninism) as a political system.

Economically communism is a classless, stateless, society.

Most Marxist-Leninist states take the position that transitioning to that instantly is impossible, and you need to build the material conditions for it by transitioning through capitalism (be that state capitalism or some other form) to socialism to communism. The Communist Party of China for instance has a goal of achieving socialism by 2050.

That’s a very simplified version anyway, and some (Trotskyists mostly) disagree that a transition period is necessary.

They aren’t state owned, they’re the largest private company in China (by number of employees), and have had plenty of issues with the authorities there.

Warhammer 40k, pre 8th edition. It’s a massively deep setting full of stories that are told by unreliable narrators.

> search engine gives generative AI answer

> It cites it source, so can’t be that bad right?

> click link to source

> It’s an AI generated article

Oh no.