We're made to think that communism is some anomaly dreamed up by the Devil Man Marx but it is really quite old. The relationship between a mother and her child is communist. When the baby cries and it needs to be fed, she doesn't ask what the baby will do for her in return.
Capitalist relations seem to form when there's a breakdown in trust, and people don't want to deal with each other. Perhaps after the old collective dies.
There's nothing wrong with capitalism in a hostile environment in which you don't trust people.You simply make the exchange and move on.
But if you want to be able to love and trust people, you'll want to go communist.
Take that classic motif that is repeated in drama and comedy: the couple or two friends develop a schism and section off the room, declaring each his or her own private area.Then it arises that there are things across each line that the other needs, and the two traffic back and forth until the tension is dissipated and they dispose of the line and come back together.There is a moral there: yes individuation can develop in times of distrust, but the division creates tensions that are unsustainable. We are too closely connected to each other and the earth to be able to divide ourselves from anything and distinguish ourselves as separate, for a protracted amount of time anyways, geological or not. Eventually it all must come back together.
But then labels themselves...communism, capitalism, they're only really good for analysis and thinking about certain natural phenomena. The labels themselves are acts of separation that necessarily exclude information. Someone may identify with one of the other term emotionally because they have a stronger tendency towards either idea. But really each of us has a mixture of both tendencies within. It is up to us which tendency is strengthened and which is suppressed at a given time.
The other danger is that if one chooses a given label like one chooses a team, which of course I'm guilty of, one risks creating a dichotomy and the resulting "us and them" division. It seems to happen of its own accord in practice. Sometimes it can't be resisted and sometimes it can. It is good to be conscious of at least.
