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The collapse of the Soviet Union: explained. from https://existentialcomics.com/comic/383

alt="Description: a supermarket called "Communism Store: fetish free commodities"

Marx: "Hi! Welcome to the Communism Store, what do you need?" Rich customer in a top hat: "How much do oranges cost?"

Marx: "How much do they cost?"

Marx: "They cost the labor of the workers who planted the seeds and harvested the fruit!"

Marx: "They cost the time and energy of those who drove the trucks and stocked the shelves!"

Marx: "Here at the communism store we do not fetishize our commodities by imbuing them with the mystical property of price, which masks the human relations in the exchange of labor."

Marx: "In a true marketplace, commodities are exchanged by human beings for their use by other human beings, labor for labor. But Capitalism has distorted this market, and produces commodities purely for profit."

"Marx: "The true labor relations are obscured and commodities are taken to only having value in exchange, rather than their real use."

Customer: "Right...but how much does it actually...cost?" Marx: "Well, this is a communism store, so everything is free."

Customer: "Really....everything?" Marx: "Yep."

Marx: "In that case I'll take everything, including the store itself." Marx: "Uh...well..."

Customer: "Now get off my property before i call the cops!"

Description: Marx gets roughly kicked out, they repaint the sign to say: "Capitalism store: fetishized commodities"

Marx: "Hey, stop that! Stop doing capitalism!" Marx: "Damn you, bourgeoisie!""

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[โ€“] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

i think this is why rationing exists lol

[โ€“] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds more like an anarchism store. A communism store would be the same but the other workers involved and the workers down the road would be organised to boot out the bourgeois before they tried to take anything.