This article clearly presents how to create good communism.
About a communist society
Karl Marx coined the term communism. It presents a political and economic system in which the society owns the means of production and produces for the benefit of the people. He defined communism as "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." According to Marx and Lenin, communism is the final stage of socialism. In communism, all goods and services are available free of charge, whereas in socialism, they are not. This is the only difference.
The problem is that Karl Marx and his most prominent students, including Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro, ultimately failed to establish communism even in theory. Their work in the field is a failure from the beginning, and history has proven it. Marxism should not be taken seriously as a solution for humankind unless Marxists can scientifically demonstrate that their beliefs are effective.
I have concluded that the primary condition for building socialism and communism is the equal rights of people. Karl Marx thought the same, but failed to define them. Lenin initially intended to build socialism based on equal human rights, but his attempt encountered such difficulties that he ultimately relinquished the people's equal rights and assumed control over them. The rest of the socialist leaders followed suit. It was precisely where everything went wrong with socialism and communism.
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In the article Good Socialism, I have presented a breakthrough on how to build socialism based on equal human rights. Among other things, people will directly decide how much of their incomes they would like to assign for taxes. The average value of all decisions made by all individuals will determine the tax percentage that people need to pay. The people will directly allocate the tax money for the collective consumption of the people. This represents a fundamental policy change, as collective consumption can no longer deviate from the needs of the people.
To achieve communism, people will need to allocate all their income for taxes, doing so of their own free will. Then, all goods and services will be available free of charge to everyone. Technically speaking, if some people refuse to allocate their gross salaries for taxes, all individuals will still receive some income, and some goods and services will still be charged. This would still be socialism and not communism.
People believe that communism is not possible to realize due to the weaknesses of human nature. This is false. Money is an absolute necessity in a society that is scarcely supplied. The wealthy elite have raised the value of money much more than it objectively deserves because, by having money while people don’t, they have the power over people. Socialism will significantly change it. It will increase production and workers’ salaries, leading to increased consumption for everyone. In such a society, money will lose its mystified value. In a highly developed world, the money will lose value completely.
One present-day example shows that money may lose value in favour of new values. Singers used to earn money by selling their songs on the market. Now, songs are available for free everywhere. Today, singers don’t measure their success by the amount of money they earn, but primarily by the number of streams and likes they receive on social media platforms such as YouTube and Spotify. The more views and likes they receive, the more famous they are. It seems fame has become more valuable than money.
In socialism, open work competition will attract the best workers to every public workplace. The market will demystify the values of jobs and balance the need for all of them. Every job will bring honourable fame. Then being a famous singer might be no better than being a famous driver or teacher. Every worker might become equally famous. The work could become more valuable to workers than money. One day, the value of work and the abundance of production will reduce the importance of money.
Money serves several functions, including a measure of value, an exchange medium, and a store of value. Socialism will not ignore them. Money functions will be transformed into new forms, which will bring new values to people, such as fame. One role of money will most likely remain: it will coordinate production processes with the needs of people through direct democracy. It will determine people’s needs and coordinate production to satisfy their needs free of charge.
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The proposed political and economic model will enhance the efficiency and stability of production, introduce security and justice into the production and distribution process, and provide significantly higher consumer benefits to all members of society. By accepting it, and thereby ushering in equal rights and powers in society, people will become genuinely equal. They will realize the second natural law of society. Equal power among people builds harmonious social relations.
The new system will rid the people of authoritative pressure and give them the freedom to follow their interests, while at the same time guiding people to mutual respect. Such experiences will demystify the values imposed by authorities. It will teach people to live in accordance with their true nature, which will, in turn, free them from all types of alienation imposed by authorities throughout the history of humankind.
Furthermore, the system will teach people to set their needs according to their ability to satisfy them. This will realize the first natural law of society, enabling people to overcome destructiveness within it. People who permanently meet their needs are not destructive. The natural laws of society promise a natural, harmonious and highly prosperous development of society.
The new system will give people the freedom to discover their true values and learn how to align with their nature. They will begin to understand that work itself is a great value; individual to individual is a prime value, while goods will lose their alienated value. Once this is accepted, they would also understand that collective consumption is the most rational consumption. One faraway day, people will allocate all their incomes directly towards taxes, causing all goods and services to be available free of charge while establishing the most stable and rational democratically planned economy.
This is communism, the best social system possible. This is what Karl Marx desired but was not able to define - a flourishing society.
About the communist people
The new system will eliminate alienation and establish genuine relationships among people. It will overcome the antagonism between people originating from alienated needs, values, and actions. The highest value of the proposed socio-economic system lies in the possibility of creating natural and harmonious social relations that will form genuine needs and values.
People will have much more free time to dedicate to themselves, society, nature, work, the arts, science, culture, philosophy, sports, entertainment, and relaxation. Once individuals stop comparing themselves to others, they will come closer to their true nature and form a connection with the environment and society that suits their lives best.
Once people recognize the natural laws of humanity, they will not have to go anywhere in search for what they need, because all they need will be in their immediate environment, or even closer - in themselves. The most critical reach of the individual’s creation is themselves. People get to know and develop themselves, their ideas and feelings. The more they get to know themselves, the more capable they are of building harmony with the environment. The closer they can come to another individual, the easier their life can be.
Equal human rights are the most critical natural law of society. They will provide the best life possible, even to those who currently hold all the power. In communism, people will have the best chances to realize a long and good quality of life.
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Communism is the final result of equal human rights. It will bring freedom, justice, love, peace, wisdom, and joy for people unconditionally. Please follow these links; they explain how to achieve these goals. Additionally, I have presented the complete results of implementing equal human rights in the scientific book "Humanism - A Philosophical-Ethical-Political-Economic Study of Society's Development." This is the most important book ever written, and it will stay the most important book because it will eliminate social problems forever. It is available for free at the link above.
Finally, I wrote the screenplay Good Communism. The movie is fiction, but it is based on scientific principles. The script presents a preview of good communism and the bright future of humankind. It is a comedy that makes fun of people from today's world who accidentally arrive in another world, in heaven, which is, in fact, communism. The movie highlights the shortcomings of today's way of living and teaches us where actual values lie.