The problem with communism...

[gingermeggs]

My theory: Communism works just fine on very small scales, like families. And capitalism fails miserably in such a case. Siblings don't (or shouldn't) compete for meals from mom and dad.

yes your theory applies in real life, like american capitalism-
communistic for the rich- no risk investment- low taxes, banker bailouts, subsidies, medical care facilities and research paid for with taxes and tax law loopholes.
capitalistic for the rest of the commoners- high unemployment, low wages, no public health care, high cost of living and housing.

Wonder how sustainable it really is?
60 years on from its attainment of number one superpower status, it seems to really be headed to the shitcan. What will happen when other countries stop buy so many guns and bombs from the USA.

Still no answer to the corporate stranglehold on democracy worldwide, just a juxtapose ideological attack..........again and again!
Boring.

 

[Siddhartha]

...is that eventually you run out of other peoples' money.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...43R3JQ?docId=528bfa0f2dec4bf8a9c7132848ebfc0d



These people have got some nerve. It's their birthright that they get free health-care.

Arrogant bunch of folks. I'm proud to be an American, where at least some semblance of sanity still resides.

The US spent over a trillion dollars in the invasion of Iraq. Is that an example of communisim "spending other people's money"?

 

[Moonbeam]

The way I see it, there is absolutely no difference between onerous communism, fascism, theocracy, monarchy or whatever other form of autocracy there might be.

The more authoritarian the governance, the more imminent the genocide. The more powerful the government, the more certain that it exists at the cost of untold lives.

It is only the extent of a society's constraint on the power of government that determines if it is free or not.

You can make every excuse under the sun about how the intent is of benefit to mankind but I still wind up looking at the body count and cursing the cause.

The above would be very true in a world where leaders have unconscious self hate. They would project that out onto the people and they would fear them. This would cause them to want to have absolute control or power over those they govern. In a world like ours, where people are full of self love, as for example, you are, we have nothing to fear from government. One thing about a world where everybody hates themselves, however, is that the folk who are governed will project onto the leaders the exact same thing the leaders will project on them.