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   Odds are that you already perform communism in your daily life with total strangers.

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     Because Communism is built off of mutual aid, solidarity, and voluntary cooperation. Someone who is so selfish that they choose not to help those who aren't in their immediate circle of friends or loved ones would be very out of place in a Communist society, one where helping those who you may not know or benefit from in any way will likely be a regular occurrence.

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     > “Because I am a vile creature and am willing to let others suffer when doing so increases the likelihood that myself and those I care about, in an intimate personal sense, will not.”

     Why is this incompatible with communism?

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     > “I won't be in what is a critical need from a stranger.”

     We are constantly in critical need from strangers.

     > “I have to live with my own selfishness, distasteful as it may be, as I try to make decisions that will most benefit me and my own.”

     Why would communism be incompatible with your selfishness?

     > “" the poor will always be among us" is a reality we must all navigate.

     Poverty is a social relationship, not material deprivation, and is in no sense universal or permanent.

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     "Why would communism be incompatible with your selfishness?"
     > Because I am a vile creature and am willing to let others suffer when doing so increases the likelihood that myself and those I care about, in an intimate personal sense, will not.

     "Poverty is a social relationship, not material deprivation, and is in no sense universal or permanent."
     > But acutely present and not something I've yet heard a way to actually deal with, given that I'm not particularly unique in the above.

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     No doubt I probably do perform communism in my daily life with total strangers but, and apologies Coyote (he has a reply asking for personal funding if you are interested), I won't be in what is a critical need from a stranger. I have to live with my own selfishness, distasteful as it may be, as I try to make decisions that will most benefit me and my own. Offensive as it may be personally, though a hell of a mic drop Coyote, "the poor will always be among us" is a reality we must all navigate.