Communism in theory vs in practice
Communism in theory vs in practice
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If it's not the CIA it will be a coup from some smart ass****e high ranked in the military/party.
Humans are to greedy to live in a socialist peaceful world.
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That doesn't make any sense, though, greed has a larger impact on Capitalist systems as its the main mover and driver.
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Yes, exactly! For all the noxious effects of greed, it drives competition which drives evolution.
Even if a utopian communist/anarchist society were able to stabilize on its own, it would inevitably be overcome at some point in the future by a more competitive society that had martially evolved beyond the utopia's understanding.
Whether its right or wrong has no bearing on the entropy of it.
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Marxists are anything but utopian, and I think you’ve bought into the just-so stories of bourgeois ideologues like von Mises, Hayek, Rothbart, and Greenspan.
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To the contrary, competition eliminates its own existence, eventually all markets will coalesce into large trusts that can be publicly owned and planned.
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Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.
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Not exactly, it's increasingly disappearing in favor of monopoly.
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The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.
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Competition can't be eternal, otherwise monopoly wouldn't exist.
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Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn't mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.
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It's not about being temporary, production becomes so complicated and wide-reaching that it must become planned and publicly owned.
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Have you considered a world where power is based in social welfare instead of capital?
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Would be nice, but it just never going to happen.
We've been there already.
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So no, you haven't.
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