What Communism Actually Is (Not the Scary Version)

Here is the definition they never let you hear in school:

Communism is the belief that the things people need to live (housing, food, healthcare, energy, infrastructure) should be controlled democratically, not privately.

That’s it.

Not:

• “no private toothbrushes,”
• “no art,”
• “no personality,”

Just:

• no landlords,
• no bosses owning your labor output,
• no billionaire class funded by wage theft.

The core idea is stupidly simple:

If you make something, you should control the thing you made.
Not a boss, not a landlord, not a shareholder. You. The workers.

The horror!
The terror!
People having control over their own lives!
How un-American!
(A joke, but not a joke.)

So Why Does It Sound So Scary?

Because if people understood how simple and reasonable this is,
no one would tolerate wage labor.

So the story had to change.

They taught you that communism means:

• gray uniforms,
• bread lines,
• no creativity,
• gulags,
• dead joy.

Which is funny, because capitalism currently gives us:

• corporate dress codes,
• food deserts,
• destroyed arts funding,
• the largest prison population in the world,
• and generalized despair.

But sure.
Tell me again about “freedom.”

The Real Threat of Communism

Communism does not threaten “liberty.”
It threatens:

• inherited power,
• passive income,
• and the right of the few to live off the labor of the many.

Communism says:

“If your wealth comes from owning other people’s time, it is not earned.”

And the ruling class said:

“Kill it. Kill it with propaganda.”

So they did.

For 90 years.

The Punchline

You have never been allowed to evaluate communism.

You have only been allowed to fear it.

And fear is not the same as understanding.

We will fix that.