#+title: communism cannot be a rolling back of the clock

When discussing nearly anything as it pertains to accomplishing [[file:20200707205056-communism.org][communism]], a few
things must be borne in mind:

- There are now over 8 billion people on the planet. Mass death is unacceptable
  in a transition.
- To prevent mass death, we cannot simply wind back the clock on a lot of
  things. Industrial society, for all of its very serious and genuine faults,
  cannot be immediately rolled back.
  + This is especially true as it pertains to [[file:20210127223303-agriculture.org][agriculture]]: transitioning to a
    communal agricultural program overnight would lead to mass death

The goal of the [[file:20210522185957-transition_period.org][transition period]] therefore must be to balance these things: we
must actually take steps to transition to communism while preventing mass death
and maintaining approval of the masses