Laeserin on Nostr: Communism is when people eventually lose interest in building things because they ...

Communism is when people eventually lose interest in building things because they have no resulting ownership of the thing or tangible personal reward for building the thing. That reward doesn't have to be money, but it should be money or something more valuable than money, like social status, personal comfort and luxury, or attractive mates. But communism never results in rising social status for producers. Quite the opposite.

Communists don't get to define what capital is or capitalism is. Adam Smith predated Marx and Smith was drawing upon historical sources with his description of the different kinds of capital.

All communists did was declare that there isn't any reason to connect the capital with the capitalist. That you could sever the capital and redistribute it, with net-positive results for the wider society. This is simply not true. Communism is painfully inefficient, so capital becomes a consumption good or is left unused and rots. Communism destroys the capital.