What are the negative aspects of communism?

Question

mind you, in its extream form. not russia at all. everyone is equal. no poor. no religion. everyone works for everyone's benefit.

Answer 1

I think you must first start with a realistic view of human nature. We are not equal in our ambition, our drive, our motivation, our will to succeed and to become everything we are possible of becoming. Some of us are less energetic, have low motivation, less ambition, low energy, small drive, and care less about self improvement and success. Some of us are outright lazy and others are even criminal in nature. If you are one of the ones with the high drive and ambition you will not have it long if nothing you can do will do anything but make you equal with others who have to do nothing to be equal to you. Communism has failed in Russia, Europe and China because of the lack of incentive. It is what is called a command economy. Someone has to tell you what to produce instead of your ambition and personal incentive finding ways to make a buck or many bucks by yourself. The reason that all of the communist areas mentioned above have switched to a capatalist form of economy is for the very reason stated. It unleashes tremendous ambition and incentive to succeed in producing goods that in turn produce wealth and well being.

To say there is no poor in communist societies is foolish. The fact is that some of the greatest famines in the world have taken place in Russia, Poland and China under communist rule. To have no poor you must first have a society that can produce enough food, clothing and shelter to care for the population. No communist nation has ever been able to do thiseven adequately. I visited East Germany, Hungary, and other eastern European countries right after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were pitiful compared to the rest of Europe. And that is why they failed. They could not produce enough goods for their own people.

Now lets' talk about corruption. You may think a capitalist country has corruption but it was and is rampant in all communist countries. The communist party is still large in Black Africa and Black Africa today is probably the most corrupt of all areas in the world.

Religion is unrelated to the issue of communism vs capitalism. In many cases religion has been a positive force in raising the level of living among peoples. Certainly the Protestant ethic of western Europe and subsequantly the U.S. and other former British possessinons motivated the greatest production system in the world i.e., capitalism, to change the world and create a great middle class. All of the great religions have held to the principle that helping the young, the aged, the infirm and the poor is a good thing. True, there are negative aspects of religion but these have little to do with whether a society is communist or capitalist.

So if you think, in your dreams, that communism is possible, it really is not, because force would have to be used to make people equal and then they would never be. The persons weilding the force certainly would not be equal to the rest of the people. Read Geroge Orwell's Animal Farm if. If you have read it, read it again. Also 1984 is still a must. My personal opinion: opportunity is more important that equality. Opportunity to succeed, opportunity to use my skills, my motivation, my drive. my will to succeed, is what creates the possiblty of a happy and fulfilled life. and not a notion of equality where the laziest, bum criminal will be able to have what I have with out working as hard as I like to work.

Answer 2

It's never actually been tried as there's never really been a communist state. Country's that call themselves communist are not really communist, they are (were) generally fine examples of state capitalism. So, without there ever having been an actual communist state, no one can really tell you what the negative aspects are.

Greedy people and Ayn Rand worshippers might tell you that not being allowed to accumulate piles of useless junk is a negative aspect...

Answer 3

No one owns property ,so that's means what ever you own would be taken away. You'd probably be sent to work camps . separated from family and friends.And since there's no incentive to work[ you get the same whether you bust your butt or do practically nothing].production for everything is cut way way down.so were talking food shortages on a regular basis

Answer 4

Because there are none whatsoever, unless you're the type of evil fuckign scumbag who thinks totalitarianism, slavery, forced famines and the most genocidal system of government ever devised are positives, which it seems you would, pig.

Answer 5

Ask the Cubans or the Chinese.
Who wants to work any harder then the next person for the same benefit.the end product is low production and poverty for all.

Answer 6

there is NO negative aspect of communism. Simply the best ideology ever in this world. Ideology is aspect of life, but not your live.

Answer 7

Everything you said is Utopia. I live in ex-comm. country and know that communism is bad.
People were getting poor and president and his comrades rich.

Answer 8

Like every other sytem, it's great in theory but troublesome in practice.

Answer 9

Every single one of them.

Answer 10

Control........

You are right, communism is what the Bible teaches, but leaders have no control over themselves. They have to do it their way...!!!