When will the world realize, people have to be ruled, Democracy is a failure.?

Question

Every modern country that is over 500 years old started with some form of Despotism. It brought many countries to glory because a single leader making all the decisions is the most efficient and effective way to manage a country. The governments of today are far to complicated and difficult for most to understand. People have to be ruled and a strong willed, intelligent leader that answers to nobody could solve so many problems instantly that nobody would suffer. Karl Marx is a genious without equal. He HAS all the answers to todays problems with a simple, yet effictive method of governance. The revolution is coming.

Answer 1

Karl Marx was a genius, there's no doubt about that, but his idea was one of world unity not oppressive governments. Thank Joseph Stalin for that one. He was so power hungry he killed many of his best friends to get on top. Plus, he murdered countless of his countrymen! I don't want to be ruled by a man that can point to me say, "he dies" and no one lifts a finger to help me. Socialism is the only way to fly, not Communism. That's what Russia would've been if Stalin hadn't ex-communicated Leon Trotski.

Answer 2

I think you should go away and read Karl Marx properly because he never said anything about people needing to be ruled by a single leader. Marx abhorred the slavery and wage slavery of the vast majority of mankind. Marx's central aim was to bring the masses to an independent class consciousness, to free them from the dominant, unconsciously internalised ideology of the bourgeoisie so that they could build genuinely independent political movements that would be able to lead the people to a new form of social organisation - communism.
He was certainly a very influential thinker whose ideas have influenced a broad spectrum of social and political movements, academic disciplines and society as a whole.

Your idea that people have to be ruled by a strong leader is more akin to the Nazis Fuhrer prinzip or to feudal ideologies of the divine rights of kings than to Marxism.

My guess is that you are a frightened adolescent or at least a very young man who likes the idea of some glorious infallible leader taking away your responsibilty for the world you live in and leading you seamlessly to a social utopia that unfortunately never has existed and never will. Even a genius like Marx would have changed his thinking about that if he had lived long enough. His theories were not created all at once and forever, they changed over the years of his life and would no doubt have gone on changing had he lived longer.

As to the revolution, perhaps it is comimg, but first we will have to deal with our implaccable rulers and the capitalist class they represent. Make no mistake, the state of the opposition to the handful of Corporations that do rule the world (rather in the way that you so admire) is so poor that the revolution is going to be a long time coming. With 'marxists' like you around that need not surprise us!

Answer 3

Only for the moment.

At present, not enough people have the self-confidence or the willingness to take responsibility for their own lives. So, we need a government to keep things organized.

But the hope is that as we evolve as a species, we might reach a point where neither controlling other people nor being controlled by others would be appealing.

For an example of such a society, read "Voyage from Yesteryear" by James P Hogan. It explores a future society where there is no government, and it works very well.

Answer 4

Ok....if you knew anything about communism, you'd know that it doesn't work. It didn't work in the USSR and it will never work because not all people are willing to succumb to authority completely. Do you understand that the living standard in the US was higher than in the USSR during communism. Why? because democracy works. The US is the most successful country in the world. Why? democracy. People lived poorly in communism. You don't understand the beauty of democracy and the freedoms it brings poeple. Yes, communism would be the ideal rule for people, because classes would be eliminated. It doesn't take a genius to understand that it is against human nature to completely submerse themsleves for the government. Everyone wants to be the best, and that's what capitalsim allows. Democracy is the most successful rule of all time, and you can't deny that. Our standard of living is one of the best in the world. Totalitarianism is a failure, not democracy.

Answer 5

No form of government is perfect, but if you have a single leader that makes most of the countrie's decisions you risk a lot of things, like the leader may be a total genius and bring 50 years of peace, economic stability and good things to his country.....but someday he'll die and his successor might be a total idiot and start war and screw up everything. In a democracy the government is kept in check by the three branches, this way the president (executive branch)might be a total idiot, but the other branches of the gov. will keep the system from total failure. All governments have their good and dark sides.

Answer 6

communism is even worse though, because this one ruler doesnt give as many rights, and most leaders will attempt to give themselves more money. Also, there can be no one striving for money becasue everyone gets the same pay. A lazy dude who works 1 hour a day will get as much as a programmer or construction workers. Whats point in woking hard if you're going to get the same money anyways?

Answer 7

there is always a bright side and a dark side to leaderism... in a dictatorship or communism, or others like those, the ruler typically is not the right man for the job. (hitler, stalin, castro, kim jong-il, saddam hussein). in a learderistic society, there is typically poverty and the leader does not give a flying **** in spade about the citizens. most of the leaders of countries such as you are thinking were arrested and executed due to war crimes. the communism in china is falling apart. they have adapted a free enterprise system in the two largest cities and it is sure to expand. dictatorships and communisms cannot sustain themselves. they are both a good idea. but practically, they fail.

Answer 8

The problem is not the type of government, but the application of the ideals. Humans always look for what is best for themselves, not the whole. As for Karl Marx, Israel's current form of government is Socialist under the labor party. God told them that imperfect humans were unable to to rule themselves, but they persisted and had to learn the hard way. If you truly believe in God, than you know that he will destroy all forms of government and replace them with a Kingship with his son on the throne, with 144,000 appoint overseers for 1000 years. After that, it is not know what will be done with them.

Answer 9

i know we all think that marx started this business, but there are actually others who considered this notion long before this. in his 1516 treatise Utopia, Thomas More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property, whose leaders administered it through the application of reason. there are others like rabelais and bernstein who weighed in on the topic.

the point is, these ideas have undergone massive changes based on the age, the ruling body, and other socioeconomic factors. your concept of communist rule is based on the idea of one guy, when in fact, it is a compilation of ideas reaching back to (some say) plato's republic. perhaps you should investigate certain aspects of your topic a bit more before you form such a staunch opinion.

and no, i'm not hot on communism. i've just read a little about it.

and from what i know, it doesn't work.

Answer 10

having one ruler is not effective and Marxism is an overly Utopian idea. there is nothing wrong with that, however, the is no person alive that could be the center piece for a system like that without it turning into a dictatorship. it has been proved time and time again that communism is as ineffective as any other form of government.