WORLD WORLDWIDE AUSTRALIA - news journal UPDATE - (en) Australia, Ancomfed: Picket Line - What is communism? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Communism is our goal, the endpoint of the process that destroys

capitalism. It means abolishing class divisions, wage labour, and the
state. Communism is about transforming the entire structure of social
life, dismantling the capitalist system in its totality. ---- Capitalism
isn't just an economic system. It's a system of social control that
reaches into every part of life. It controls time, labour, and survival
through markets, wages, and coercion. Under capitalism, people must sell
their ability to work in order to live. Under communism, we will
restructure life around solidarity, self-determination, and collective
access to what we need to live and thrive.

Under capitalism, things are produced as commodities to be sold for
profit. A capitalist does not make a chair because people need to sit,
but because it can be sold to make money. Today, everything is
commodified-our food, our homes, even our social lives.

Communism abolishes the production of commodities for profit and
replaces it with production for human need. Decisions about what and how
to produce will no longer be driven by the pursuit of individual wealth,
but made collectively by all workers in the interests of everyone's
well- being.

Communism also abolishes the compulsion to work that is built into
capitalism. Under capitalism, we have no choice but to sell our labour
to the bosses, or else face starvation, homelessness and poverty. In
communism, production is planned for human need, not profit, so work
becomes a free choice- a contribution to the social whole rather than a
condition for survival.

This is not a utopian fantasy. It reflects a basic truth: we already do
the work that keeps society functioning. We build and maintain
everything- yet we don't control any of it. Capitalism depends on our
labour but excludes us from power. Under communism, we take back that
control and decide ourselves what work gets done. No more luxury
apartments while others sleep outside. No more wasted labour producing
junk while real needs go unmet. Instead we engage in necessary work,
shared and planned together.

Communism isn't a childish dream where everyone becomes kind, generous,
and wise. It doesn't depend on some ideal human nature. It will involve
average human beings doing average human things: getting tired, making
mistakes, being selfish. That's fine. Communism does not require morally
perfect humans. The point is to build systems that don't rely on
domination, coercion, or profit to keep running.

People are shaped by the systems they live in. Capitalism trains us to
compete, hoard, and treat each other as threats or obstacles. It
isolates us, then sells connection back to us as a product. It rewards
dickhead behaviour. But people are also capable of care, solidarity, and
courage. At the moment, capitalism distorts or suppresses these
capacities. Communism builds on them instead. It starts from what
already exists: the fact that we cooperate every day, at work and in
life, but under conditions we do not control. The contradiction is that
while production is collective, ownership is private. Communism resolves
that contradiction.

Communism has not been tried and failed. What's failed is trying to
build socialism through top-down party-states while keeping capitalist
structures intact. The idea that communism equals authoritarianism is
Cold War propaganda. Communism is when the state no longer exists, not
when it does more things.

Struggle reshapes those who fight.

Communism is not a better-managed version of capitalism. It's a
completely different world. Not one where factories have new owners, but
one where the concept of ownership itself is no longer the basis of
power. A world where life is organised to meet needs, not to create
wealth for a few. A world where people are not reduced to tools for
extracting profit. We've seen glimpses of this world in revolutionary
Spain where millions of workers and peasants took control of the
factories and the land, abolished money and decided their future
together. Our task is to bring this vision to completion.

This vision is necessary because capitalism is not sustainable. It moves
from crisis to crisis, extracting everything it can from people and the
planet. The ruling class has no plan for what's coming. There is no
benevolent version of this system waiting in the wings. No reform will
make it humane. Communism is necessary.

Communism won't happen spontaneously or inevitably. We have to build it.
Capitalism will not disappear peacefully. The capitalists will fight to
survive. Communism requires revolution: planned, organised, and fought
for. The working class is not just a victim of capitalism, it is also
the force that can bring it to an end. There is no perfect roadmap, if
communism is the horizon the path is only made by walking. We will build
the future through our struggle, by learning, adapting, and organising
in real conditions.

This struggle is not only a means of resistance-it is the ground where
the working class transforms itself, and where a different kind of human
being begins to take shape. It is where the working class becomes
something more than a workforce under exploitation. Struggle reshapes
those who fight.

That's why building class power matters now, not just to prepare for
revolution, but because revolution is made through struggle itself. It
is how the class becomes revolutionary. Fighting back is the way we
become conscious of our own power. In the course of struggle, the
working class becomes something more than what capitalism allows: it
becomes the agent of its own liberation.

https://ancomfed.org/2025/09/what-is-communism/
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