The concept of Communism/Socialism and if it could work...

Well, just like any class society, a Marxist-Leninist society would have prisons. In Russia those were gulags. And they were labour camps, and they were not pretty. But that was because they were prisons in the 1920s-1960s. Just about every country in the world used prison labour until the 1960s.

This is the long way of saying that Marxism doesn't have a stance on prison labour. While most MLs would probably agree that a society would have prisons, what they would look like would depend entirely on the class relations within that society. So prison labour could as easily be abolished as it could be commonplace.

But that's not the fun answer. I'm giving a philosophical, modern Marxist answer. And the modern Marxist answer is that communism doesn't really make sense in DnD, since it's a philosophy that only really makes sense in a post-industrial world. So it depends then, what are you trying to do with this? Do you want to evoke the old school Soviet imagery, or the ideals of collectivism?

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