cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix/p/449273/food-is-literally-rule
Food is literally rule
Edit: Could you please chill it with the taking everything so bloody seriously? It’s low-hanging fruit leftist agitprop from c/196. It doesn’t aim to be coherent with the very letter of Marx or whatever leftist group/cult-leader you prefer.
Sure, but even if the land is held by the commons someone has to do the actual farming, someone has to bring that food to you , someone has to build the road and the truck that makes this even possible, someone needs to feed you with a spoon because you don’t want to work.
Congratulations in this scenario lots of people need to work, except for you.
I think there’s a mismatch of definitions here: The original post probably means “wage labour” when they wrote “work”. It’s in the second paragraph.
The earliest civilization in Sumer actually had people working in the fields bring grain to “temples” and then the “priests” redistributed the food for everyone, and when they saw this created lots of surplus, they figured out that not everybody needed to work the fields, and those who didn’t could do other stuff. Like build the city, make cool metal shit. But the food remained in common - until city-states invaded each other to collect “taxes” (grain) because they saw that the other city’s land gave better grain. And then kings and priests decided who was allowed to have a field (and worked in them). And then people who “owned” that land decided to have others work for them. But it didn’t start that way.