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Interesting fact: Β Gene Roddenberry was a socialist.Related content
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I guess I don't know communism all that well- I know it aims to create a classless society in which ownership of everything is shared by everyone- but the many over the few sounds distinctly utilitarian.
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Or at least, the means of production must be collectivized before property is abolished completely.
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Which seems less than doable.
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Immediately, yes, but it's a gradual evolution.
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You're right on most of that, except the "common ownership" refers to the means of production, rather than all property.
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Yep, but it's a byproduct of the dissolution of property. Individual rights are based on the right to own capital. When humanity itself is seen as an end over and above valorisation of the rich, Spock's word will be made flesh, as it were.
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I don't quite understand, I fear.
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Considering how much it shows up in Star Trek...
Damn, this is going to be a hard blow for some people.
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With any luck it will. Β That's essentially the point.
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Interesting, yet few here in the West would share spock's sentiment.Β
Hell, he was always the coolest character on the show
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Without a doubt. Β
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