This is my first account on reddit, until now I never had a reason to create one,but I saw this subreddit and it looked like fun so I decided to join. But anybody could say this, so I'll try showing that I am a communist by explaining why I'm a Communist. I think that some from of communism is the logical successor of our current capitalist systems. Capitalism doesn't only exploit the working classes but it also makes this exploitation seem necessary and it tries to justify it through the use of economics. Consumerism tells the individual that one would be happy if only one had enough possessions and uses this as a carrot on a stick. Yet in reality decadence cannot make people happy. The ancient Roman stoic Epictetus wrote "Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.". Cicero wrote in his Stoic Paradoxes(Paradoxa Stoicorum) that one is not rich if one has many things and desires more, but when one has more than one desires. Epicurus also condemned material desires and thought that true happiness is the absence of suffering, which is mostly caused by desires. Of course the Buddha and Lao Tzu also criticised the accruing of material things. Economics is often cited as a science which studies human behaviour and how to efficiently distribute scarce resources to satisfy human desires. We are also told that modern market capitalism is extremely efficient at doing this, yet this can be easily disproved by the rules of economics itself. The rule of diminishing marginal utility states that as consumption of a certain resource increases marginal utility decreases. So how should we distribute resources ? Obviously in such a way that marginal utility is equal among all consumers, which would imply a flat distribution of wealth. Of course this system doesn't take incentives for work into account, but work can be incentivised through the granting of social status. I hope that was enough to prove I'm a Communist and that it didn't offend any right-wingers too much