[Marxism] Communism and socialism

[Eli Stephens]

I'm going to throw out a question for discussion on which I definitely don't 
have the answer: As I understand it, "communism" is only possible under 
conditions of material abundance. It used to be axiomatic that there were enough 
resources, the problem was one of distribution (the rich having too much, the 
poor too little, e.g., grain stored in the U.S. while people elsewhere go 
hungry). But with increasing resource shortages, not just oil but water, and the 
current and future world populations, perhaps the possibility of material 
abundance (at least for a significant portion of humanity) is precluded. Would 
that mean the old definition of "communism" has to be thrown out, or re-thought?

Again, no answers, just questions.


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