A friend recently reminded me of this:
Marxists’ Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Marxism Doesn’t Work
Nov 13, 2002AMHERST, MA—The filthy, disorganized apartment shared by three members of the Amherst College Marxist Society is a microcosm of why the social and economic utopia described in the writings of Karl Marx will never come to fruition, sources reported Monday.
“The history of society is the inexorable history of class struggle,” said sixth-year undergraduate Kirk Dorff, 23, resting his feet on a coffee table cluttered with unpaid bills, crusted cereal bowls, and bongwater-stained socialist pamphlets…
Upon moving in together at the beginning of the fall 2001 semester, Dorff, Josh Foyle, and Tom Eaves sat down and devised an egalitarian system…the system began to break down soon after its establishment…
“I brought up that I thought it was total bullshit that I’m, like, the only one who ever cooks around here, yet I have to do the dishes, too,” said Foyle, unaware of just how much the apartment underscores the infeasibility of scientific socialism as outlined in Das Kapital. “So we decided that if I cook, someone else has to do the dishes. We were going to rotate bathroom-cleaning duty, but then Kirk kept skipping his week…”
After weeks of complaining that he was the only one who knew how to clean “halfway decent,” Foyle began scaling back his efforts, mirroring the sort of production problems experienced in the USSR and other Soviet bloc nations…
RTWT 🙂
The leftist utopia requires people contribute more than just smoking pot. It seems that even taking showers is too much effort for most of them. This reminds me of the roommate I had that was so lazy that when I went looking for my car washing bucket I found it in his room with a layer of used condoms in it.
The Marxist Utopia works when there are serfs and non-persons to do all the grunt work while the Inner Party debates the Dialectic, and the Outer Party battles over internecine purity.