nigini commented on Slow Down by Brian Bergstrom
"As Zizek says here, communism is nothing less than the conscious attempt to reconstruct the commons—knowledge, nature, human rights, society—dismantled by capitalism.
It's not well known, but Marx in fact referred to the society to come, a society founded on the reconstructed commons, as one of “free association.” When he spoke of this future society, Marx seldom used the words “socialism” or “communism.” Rather, he preferred to refer to the “free association” of producers. The voluntary mutual aid between workers characterizing such an association is the ultimate realization of the commons."