Socialism and Communism will have the outer appearance of being a highly advanced form of capitlaism
Capital deployment will be so efficient and streamlined and automated when it’s deployed according to the needs of the people
From each according to their ability, To each according to their need
Communists do not aim to “abolish” capitalism or the state outright and replace with nothing (as the anarchists advocate), they aim to “sublate” capitalism and the state into higher forms
Marx’s “abolish” comes from poor translation from German when it should be “sublate”
What does sublate mean? It means to transform into a higher state, to abolish its old way by qualitatively transforming into a new way, a phase change, from liquid to gas
The sublation of the state is where all are active participants in the administration of all of society such that there is no “government” but instead self-governing masses of people
To regulate capital for exchange-value is far less efficient and thermodynamically exploitative than to regulate it for Use-value
If we measured capital’s exchange-value efficiency, all of that’s collapse if thanks to competition
The next phase will be about human wellbeing which is what Marx meant by “use-value” of a good
Can only be achieved if you have Economic Sovereignty