Should America become communist right now for a better future?

Question

I don't really see U.S.A as a great superpower now because China and India are rising both ecomonically and and educationally. If the United States doesn't change it's political and educational system soon 10-50 years we would be just another third world country. Truthfully I want America to be on top and stay on top.

Answer 1

There has yet to be a functional government that was actually communistic, and very few socialistic ones that lasted more than a couple of years, no matter what they advertised themselves as being.

I'll take free enterprise any day, over socialism, communism, capitalism or fascism all of which have the unity of government control of business as a shared sin.

Answer 2

Not sure why becoming communist would make a better future for us. It didn't help anywhere else and when free markets opened up in Eastern Europe, the economies there bloomed.

China and India are certainly doing great right now, but both have a way to go to reach the US in GDP.

As these countries progress, the US is also growing and is very stable. But with these countries becoming powerful, does that mean the superpower status of the US will become non-existent? At some point, all great powers rise and fall. Here is a list: Assyria, the Macedonian Empire, the Greek City States, Rome, the Mongolian Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Turkish empire, France, Spain, England, and the Soviet Union. And those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head. The US will fall or at least begin to decline in prominence as well. But I don't see that occurring soon. We really are too powerful, too innovative, and too rich.

Look, the greatest revolutions in economics, medicine, and technology since the industrial revolution occurred here. Sure, certain things occurred elsewhere, but not the greatest mass of discovery and innovation.

You worry about education. I don't. Our problems are isolated. It's true that our children score lower on tests than kids in other countries, but we have more immigrants that other countries to education. Japan has very little immigrants and is a very, very homogeneous country. Teaching the great mass of people there is much easier than in a place like the LA school district where kids speak over a hundred different languages and where we still have to deal with racial inequalities that cause educational problems. If you just look at tests, you'll think that our kids are lazier or not as well educated. But the vast middle class still performs well and is able to move on to higher education and then to build bigger and better things. This is not to say that we should not do better in educating the underprivileged.

You worry about our economy. I'm not. It's still humming along. Don't mess with it, but, while we don't see the same growth rates as China and India, why would we. They are in the Industrial phase when growth rates are huge. We are in the post-industrial phase. One would not expect our growth rates to be as large as a percentage. Of course, if you just look at China's growth rate as a percentage versus our growth rate, then you see a huge disparity. If you look at actual dollars of growth in GDP, the US still tops China in growth every year. Moreover, China's growth is fueled by demand for consumer products abroad. China's biggest trading partner at 21% of all exports is the US. It's third biggest is Japan at 11%. As such, China's growth is limited by the demand for its products from the US and Japan. Japan is going through a major population slowdown, so it is unlikely that Japan will ask for more products from China. And if the US becomes a third world country, China's growth will grind to a halt as the demand from its biggest trading partner would cease.

Remember that this isn't a horse race. All of these countries are interconnected and the world's economic growth and security is very much connected to the health of the US economy. If the US goes down, the world will suffer greatly. It will recover after a while as it always does, but the world, as much as it might hate us, has a vest interest in a healthy and powerful US.

Answer 3

Yes, but this is the price of globalization. More people will have access to wealth as the world markets become democratized.

However, china is becoming more a manufacturing based economy while the US is a service based and technological economy.

A service based economy is less subject to the wild fluctuations of the economic cycles of bust or boom. While a manufacturing based economy suffers more and must deal with massive lay-offs during the bust periods.

While Chinese and Indian engineers are better at brute computation. American engineers tend to be better at deep problem solving and are motivated by better management and salaries.

China still has a lot of problems with their stock market. Companies aren't required to be as transparent with their financial transactions as US companies.

The Chinese are still denied access to many basic freedoms that Americans are allowed.

Unless China becomes completely democratic and capitalistic and has more than one ruling party they will never succeed us.

Answer 4

communism pretty much goes against every part of the "american dream" and with china, their communism was good until it started taking away their rights, such as religious freedom. they are slowly getting it back but you also have to realize that both china and india have very different views that are ingrained in their society then we have in western society they look at life and material wealth alot differently then we do. and the usa will never been a third world country because we are already fully developed and industrialized. and i dont think its possible to go backwards...

Answer 5

That is a great idea seeing how it worked so well in China, The USSR, Viet Nam. Cuba, N Korea, E Germany and all those other incredibly poor countries.

Answer 6

No. Democracy is the best. Democracy fosters a nation's economic growth and raise the population's standard of living, only if democracy is gaurded and applied properly.

To be honest, it is best to consider that America's political future in the global arena is somewhat uncertain, judging from the way its managing itself in our world.

Answer 7

I'd rather just be a pure and true third world country than a 'communist' nation that is just actually a third world nation with an identity crisis...

Answer 8

No. Although it would take care of people on welfare because in Communists countries everybody HAS to work. Aside from that I don't see it.

Answer 9

no way our 2nd ammendment would quash that notion in a second and a civil war would ensue. Thus democrocy for the people by the people would still be in business.

Answer 10

we are able to purely prevail if our u . s . a . has disciplined stable and not "utak talangka" or brag different human beings right down to stand up on the society our officers think of roughly their money capital. they overvalued the supplies on development or supporting the folk the only thank you to get the philippines in bigger classification. like japan they have disciplined officers extreme morale and commemorated. the only factor brags the philippines down is corruption. philippines is wealthy in organic materials and blessed with elegance of nature yet its polititians are corrupted and Shelfish.yet in communism its extra worst merely like in joseph stalin's corruptness he killed extra of his human beings in ww2 than hitler tho. famine in North korea and russia in early 1920-40s. and there will be extra conflict if a rustic exchange into communist. i merely desire the philippines my u . s . a . upward push and be fulfillment merely like different worldwide places in the worldwide :).