Is socialism against "human nature"?

Question

The idea that violence and war have always been part of human society may seem like common sense. But the historical evidence reveals a very different picture. According to the Rutgers anthropologist R. Brian Ferguson, "The global archaeological record contradicts the idea that war was always a feature of human existence; instead, the record shows that warfare is largely a development of the past 10,000 years."

As Karl Marx wrote, "Revolution is necessary not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the old crap and become fitted to found society anew."

BeachBum I agree...

Here is what the Russian revolutionary Lenin, argued in 1919 - Notwithstanding all the laws emancipating woman, she continues to be a domestic slave, because petty housework crushes, strangles, stultifies and degrades her, chains her to the kitchen and the nursery, and she wastes her labor on barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking, stultifying and crushing drudgery. The real emancipation of women, real communism, will begin only where and when an all-out struggle begins (led by the proletariat wielding the state power) against this petty housekeeping, or rather when its wholesale transformation into a large-scale socialist economy begins...Public catering establishments, nurseries, kindergartens--here we have examples of these shoots, here we have the simple, everyday means, involving nothing pompous, grandiloquent or ceremonial, which can really emancipate women, really lessen and abolish their inequality with men as regards their role in public life.

Answer 1

I would argue that socialism IS human nature.

I, personally, believe that testosterone is the evil of the world... it is the underlining virus/cause behind every single bad thing that has happened between societies, cultures and nations throughout the history of the world.

Think about it... a male will stand and argue against increasing the minimum wage with the argument that ppl need to make themself more competitive.... why does he feel this way? Testosterone has invaded his body making him competitive by nature... but what makes testosterone so evil is that it actually makes these males believe they are right and everyone else is wrong... it controls their minds... consuming them with feelings of superiority and a sense to acquire as much power as they can... to dominate... to WIN... and once again, all the while, everybody else that believes all PEOPLE are equal and it doesn't matter who wins or loses, etc... that we all have souls and just because you are born with money, the janitor that works 8 hours a day is equal to you.... we are wrong in the testosterone consumed mind.

Honestly, I am sick to death of having to pay for testosterone failures, war, crimes, prisons, social errors, etc... We, the women, don't commit the rapes, fill the prisons, pedophilia acts, theft, murders, start wars, etc... YET it is a man's world that I have to put up with and PAY FOR.

I know I am off on a tangent but this was actually on my mind because I noticed yesterday on television (my dish is down) that every network had a sport showing on it... was either golf or football. I ended up watching PBS all day. It got me to thinking that it is high-time we, the women, stop appeasing these testosterone beasts. We go to their games, their male crap stuff, yet ask them to.. say go shopping or participate in some female type thing... oh heck no...

It is high-time, the women stop letting the fathers of the world idolize their male children and demand of them to get to know their daughters and to treat them equally. We, as mothers, love our children no matter what sex they are. We love our sons and our daughters. A male will become his son's best friend in the world, name him after himself and proudly announce... this is MY SON!! Yet the testosterone in his brain blocks him from getting to know his daughter... not even attempting to take her places, etc... (I've just noticed this in society too many times)

Answer 2

I don't believe there is a historical instance of pure socialism that could be held up as an example to answer your question.

In theory, many have laid their scholarly reputations that it is utopia, but there has never been even the basic groundwork laid to make an educated guess.

Answer 3

Karl Marx is against my nature.

Isn't the last 10,000 years proof enough for you that warring and violence is part of human nature? Ask any mother and grandmother and they will probably tell you that it is part of human nature until they are persuaded otherwise.

If you are about to attack the Bush administration, then the argument is then about whether we have the right to use violence to defend ourselves after being attacked.

Answer 4

Wake up!!! The capitalistic jungle of American and British Zionism is the root cause against all evil and therefore against human nature!

Answer 5

It is against human nature. People don't like to share or give their money to people who don't deserve it. We all strive for ambition and we shouldn't have to hold down so everybody can be equal.

Answer 6

1) Socialism is against human nature.
2) Many archeologists & sociologists only "see" what they want to see. According to their worldviews, don't allow for war to be hard wired. Al they are really saying is that
A) there is no historical record of war in prehistoric time.
B) There are no records of large battles before people lived in large groups.

to both of those "observations" I say DUH!

Answer 7

10,000 yrs. ago mans main occupation was just to survive. Warfare was over food then. And they didn't write histories about it.

Answer 8

YES!!