ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]

Nah, its even actively harmful / wasteful imo. Under socialism and communism, with society controlled by the workers, it will be difficult to make people do tons of mining, smelting, transport, etc, polluting their land and waters and destroying wildlife, just to allow some scientists far away to do fun rocket building and flying around

The union army sent captured confederates west to build railroads, kill buffalos and shoot natives during the civil war, as an example of how they were on the same side as settlers

the more i read about history the more convinced i become that ‘fascism’ (merger of economic and political power for bourgeois ends) is the default state of capitalism