What do you think of communisim? Utopia? tyranny? or whaever? and why?

Question

What do you think of communisim? Utopia? tyranny? or whaever? and why?

Answer 1

I think that communism is flawed. It would suck to have everyone given the same thing no matter how hard they work. The slackers of the world would find it utopia, but the hard-working people would hate it so much.

*BTW, I would hate it. I fall on the hard-working side.

Answer 2

In theory the principals of communism I think are very utopian, but in reality most cases turn into these socialist despotic dictatorships. In a democracy there are (supposedly) checks and balances that try to keep things remotely fair.

These are based on the individual freedoms that an individual has, where as in most communist states the position of the individual is expected to conform to the optinion of the state.

Sensorship and open sedition laws are in opposition to a truely democratic system and once presonal freedoms have been taken away, the reality of a dictatorial communist state vs a dictatorial democratic state is that at least the communist one is built on the principal of protecting the common good. In a democratic state, if the political process fails there is virtually nothing to maintain it's structure.

Answer 3

Life is completely absurd. Every particle of it would move you toward some experience or other, and yet all experience conceals the ultimate message of the necessity for transcendence or freedom from experience. That one must attain freedom from something that is unnecessary to begin with is utterly absurd. Why bother with it to begin with?

Enlightenment is to Awaken from the seriousness of experience. It is not to despair or to destroy oneself. Despair is serious, and so is suicide. Self-indulgence is serious, stressful effort is serious, discipline is serious, interest is serious, knowledge is serious, death, sex, food, everything is completely serious. This movement or tendency to survive, to continue in independent form, is profoundly serious, and it is also absurd because it must be transcended. Enlightenment is to be restored to Divine humor, to realize that nothing is necessary. No experience is necessary. You can either become distracted by experience and repeat it, or you can transcend it. One or the other. If you have transcended experience, then it is no longer necessary. In that case, whether or not experience continues makes not the slightest bit of difference to you. Experience will come to an end with death in any case.

We are under the incredibly absurd illusion that there is an objective world "outside" Consciousness. There is not a shred of truth in this presumption. There is no world independent of Consciousness. The world is a modification of Consciousness, a play on Consciousness. It has no independent reality and no necessity. It is just possibility. What Consciousness does in terms of possibility in any moment is the drama of the seriousness of existence. When it Awakens to its true Position, which is senior to phenomena, then it is full of humor and there is no necessity to any experience. There is only Enlightenment, Divine Freedom.

Answer 4

Communism - 100 million dead - seems like a crappy deal over the long term.