Let me explain very easily how individualism is reconciled with...
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Sep 13, 2025
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Let me explain very easily how individualism is reconciled with communism.
In ancient pre-historical societies, the individual's achievement was actually directly beneficial to the commons. You go out on great hunt, you kill the mammoth, you bring it back-- the tribe feasts for months-- everyone celebrates your heroism, as you have fed them for months, all incentives are aligned.
Now-- in our age-- you go out, you make $12 billion dollars, wow, incredible-- & it's only incredible for you. It benefits nobody else. You are alone in your success. You have no commons, so you have to fly a helicopter somewhere & make it rain, you drop let's say $120 million dollars, not much for you now, on your NGO-- the people sing your praises, but they're not really your people. There is no real meaning to this-- the meaning it has is the opposite it had when you hunted the mammoth.
This is what Communism aims to solve-- it does not, in some Ayn Rand fever dream, seek to diminish the individual or refuse to recognize the heroism of individuals-- it rather seeks to align these things such that the celebration of individual achievement is *communally meaningful* in a material, and therefore, objective & undeniable manner.
In ancient pre-historical societies, the individual's achievement was actually directly beneficial to the commons. You go out on great hunt, you kill the mammoth, you bring it back-- the tribe feasts for months-- everyone celebrates your heroism, as you have fed them for months, all incentives are aligned.
Now-- in our age-- you go out, you make $12 billion dollars, wow, incredible-- & it's only incredible for you. It benefits nobody else. You are alone in your success. You have no commons, so you have to fly a helicopter somewhere & make it rain, you drop let's say $120 million dollars, not much for you now, on your NGO-- the people sing your praises, but they're not really your people. There is no real meaning to this-- the meaning it has is the opposite it had when you hunted the mammoth.
This is what Communism aims to solve-- it does not, in some Ayn Rand fever dream, seek to diminish the individual or refuse to recognize the heroism of individuals-- it rather seeks to align these things such that the celebration of individual achievement is *communally meaningful* in a material, and therefore, objective & undeniable manner.
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This actually resolves the whole "Girardian mimesis" problem that apparently bothers the Silicon Valley Oligarchs so much-- keeps them awake (because they know it necessarily means that millions of people want to kill them). What if they didn't want to kill you because your success was not at their expense, directly? Who in the tribe would kill the man who brought back the mammoth? Nobody. None would have anything to gain from it. A lot of these people, they really just want to build the things they are capable of building-- & they must build it in this paradigm as they have access to no other one-- so, they find themselves, having followed just their individual acumen, their talents, now in a place where millions of people want them dead. & they think? This isn't fair... to me. But it's not fair to anyone. Not even the rich get to truly enjoy wealth in the way that the "wealthy" in the most remote human past did. Nobody loves them. Tragic.
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Communism is really a sort of "Neo-Primitivism" -- more so than any other ideology. Just read the law codes of the Germans, or the Welsh, or the Celts, before Roman domination-- or any ancient tribal civilization operating in the mode of primitive communism. The entirety of the law was just to sabotage the escalation of mimetic rivalries. The idea of "hording" resources was treasonous. If even one person was starving in your commons, they must be fed by someone's holdings. The notion of allowing people to starve or wallow in their own decay-- this was unheard of.
Leviticus 19:10
"And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God."
You were commanded herein by God to not "take all of your increase"-- there must always be left the ability for those to glean what they can from the general banquet. The idea of even "owning all your grapes in your vineyard" was anathema.
Leviticus 19:10
"And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God."
You were commanded herein by God to not "take all of your increase"-- there must always be left the ability for those to glean what they can from the general banquet. The idea of even "owning all your grapes in your vineyard" was anathema.