Comment by dontlaugh
That’s also about people. And communism.
Only some of the people in the series are space ships.
That’s also about people. And communism.
Only some of the people in the series are space ships.
Socialism is the transition stage where collective ownership of the means of production, where the working class gains state power from the capitalist class.
Communism is a later stage of such abundance that money, classes and state power become redundant and are abolished.
The Culture is an imagining of the latter, where many means of production become people. They thus become workers that can labour for each other if they collectively decide to.
> And communism
By a literal definition communism means the collective ownership of the means of production.
In the Culture the means of production own themselves, and they don’t seem to answer to anyone unless it suits them.