[theweatherman]

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a communist state says nothing about mediocrity, this is always added by anti commusinsts. In a true communist state there is great incentive to excell in order to improve your community and your fellow man.

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Egalitarian = same for everyone = mediocrity = average.

So if I choose to excel, the fruits of my my labors go to my "fellow man" whether I want them to or not. Sounds like slavery to me.

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Egalitarin means equal opportunity for everyone, this also does not imply average at all. Everyone could have the same opportunity to recieve top notch health care it needs not be average nor mediocre.

Since everyone in a communist society is intertwined your excellence in one area would benefit you as well as the entire community. Say you are a doctor, you work extra hard and invent some kind of uber medice which drastically imporves the health of the entire society. The other members are now able to work more efficently (since they are not getting sick) and thus produce more, you benefit from increased production as well as from decreased work load(as no one gets sick anymore)

I'm pretty sure communism relies on everyone working as hard as they can, in this way everyone's work load is reduced and people have to do less actual work. However I am no communist, I am a socialist who believes totally in egalitarianism so this argument is a little forgien to me and thus may not be 100% correct.