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Old 03-26-2008, 08:59 PM

Re: communism

A 14-year-old that doesn't for once think communism is just absolutely the shit? Thank raptor-jesus.

However, your dislike is rather simplistic, and does not grasp the real reason why it does not work (as the inequalities and conflict as seen in Soviet Russia and Animal Farm is not necessarily caused by being commies). The problems are all in the economics:

- the economy is centrally planned - meaning the government decides what will be produced, rather than the whims of the market. No entrepreneurialship required, which does not result in increased productivity or lower prices that entail competition for the consumer's money.
- people being "equal" is not realistic. A doctor should not earn the same pay as a factory worker, and by doing so, this discourages hard work and diversification of labour, as being lazy nets the same results.
- as such, it depends on people being inherently good (as someone like Rousseau would have you believe). In reality, humans are more or less the opposite - everything we do is for personal gain of some kind (a more Hobbesian notion). While communism depends on people being good (and thus diverting from human nature), capitalism allows room for our natural greed, and even thrives on it.

Mention that shit and A++ for you.
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