Socialism and Communism will have the appearance of being a highly advanced form of capitlaism
Capital will be so efficient and streamlined and automated
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need
This should come as no surprise
Communists do not aim to “abolish” capitalism or the state, they aim to “sublate” capitalism and the state
Marx’s “abolish” comes from poor translation from German when it should be “sublate”
The sublation of capitalism is even higher efficiency
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