• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Communism simply represents any societal system of workers directly controlling enterprise, instead of its being controlled by private owners.

    When enterprise is privately controlled, wage remuneration to workers is resolved entirely by the profit motive of private owners.

    The employment relationship carries no deeper motive or essential virtue, as you have suggested. It embodies no natural directionality that “takes into account uniqueness, results, and innovation”.

    Under private enterprise, all is subsumed under profit, and all that is not profitable is discarded.

    When workers control enterprise, they may distribute the value of their product however they choose. No power prevents them from ascribing value to the attributes you have identified as meaningful.