Communist Party of Equestria 137 members · 30 stories
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Are we sure Communism as we know it is useful in an Equestrian context?

Cutie Marks seem to blow a good chunk of it wide open. Ponies always seem to get the booty doodle/special talent/whatever that guarantees them a livelihood, and those destinies are distributed exactly right to carefully limit the supply for that particular skill set, guaranteeing workers can demand a living wage and fair conditions. Of course, the balance is finely kept; there's no sign of economic damage through a shortage of a certain type of skilled worker. It can be assumed the very economy of the nation is controlled through this self correcting magic.

Further, mass mistreatment of the working classes as exists in real life can't happen under genuinely Good, immortal absolute Diarchs. It would go against the Sisters' very nature to allow poverty and exploitation to exist, positioned as they are in the setting as avatars of good, incorruptible* Vanguards against evil. Should any employer be found forcing children down mines, Celestia would probably throw him in the sun or something.

The class system is absolutely fucked though. There are more ponies than Twilight out there with her skills and knowledge, yet it was only her privileged life of elite schooling and close relationship to the ruling class that gave her the resources to achieve alicornhood. If she was born anywhere else, she'd have none of it.

You could argue fate placed her there as it placed her booty doodle on her, but fuck any fate which also gives someone else that immense potential and then puts them in the middle of nowhere. That's the kind of garbage which happens in real life, it has no place in a world of magical destinies.

It seems, to me, that applying the same frameworks that we apply to our own world is pointless. Would ponies themselves have an equivalent to our left wing? Maybe. But I don't know that the problems of their society have enough impact for them to form one.

(* yeah we know nimmymoo blah blah)

3248406 don't forget they have an aristocracy.

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