delete it all.
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Matthew (11th July 2020), skogvokter (11th July 2020), spade (11th July 2020), TomKat (10th July 2020)
Well not really, the two go hand-in-hand, that's the problem. The reason for that is: humans. The wider the bureaucracy (which communism requires to function) the more powerful the state becomes, and the more powerful the state the steeper the tilt towards totalitarianism. That's exactly what history has shown, time and again. I'm not critiquing the political, social, or the economic 'theory' of communism, merely the trend it follows to final conclusion, which is implosion - into bankruptcy, insurgency and revolution, or at the far end of the scale genocide.Posted by Justjane (here)
I think you’re confusing communism with totalitarianism.[COLOR="red"]
I think this is a very difficult discussion. Whatever merits there are "on paper" in the communist system, and there are some, they do not translate in reality. They just don't. The history proves it. Democracy doesn't work all that much better either, it too is different on paper than in reality, because of the exact same common denominators - invariably being elitism, the lust for power and the struggle for control. Our western democracies are waist deep in corruption, evil and greed. It's just a more behind the curtain type of totalitarianism. You may say then that capitalism is the problem. It isn't. It's still, and always, corruption, evil and greed in the system.
It was definitely not what the ancient Greeks had in mind when they formulated the first democracy, which they called "δημοκρατία", or demos-kratos meaning people-rule. For the first time it wrested power from the clutches of a despot, a king, and handed it to the people. I still believe it is the best model there is, having the most checks and balances to prevent abuse. Of course the 'elites' toil endlessly to navigate their way around those checks and balances and to stay hidden in the shadows -- but at least they keep to those shadows. We in the west have the very best of it compared to the rest of the world, perhaps the best in all human history, with the exception of ancient days when we lived in harmony alongside nature. In our modern, technologically sophisticated world, and with 7billion+ of us to look after, democracy - people-rule - is the best chance we have, if only the corrupt, the greedy, and the evil could be removed completely from the equation.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
~ Jimi Hendrix
De Christu (28th March 2021), onawah (10th July 2020)
If it fully arrives and takes over, I don't think the new corporate communism will go bankrupt like the early test models did by design ( kinda like a terminator gene to stop it getting out of control before the whole plan was ready for it ).
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De Christu (28th March 2021)