Why is it that communism, practiced on anything other than a small scale (such as Jewish kibbutzim or tribal societies), seems to inevitably lead to authoritarianism?
2007-01-19 05:22:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because it is too easy to gain power through corruption. But the real failure of communism is the fact that there is no incentive to work harder, and more benefit in doing nothing.
2007-01-19 05:27:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Communism has never really been implimented so it has never failed. The reason why socialism always fails is because of two reasons: Every place in the world where socialism is there will be an American plotting to destroy it. The second reason is that socialism is being implimented incorrectly, it attempts to make all wages and property and everything exactly the same. The goal of communism should not be to make everything exactly the same, the goal of communism should be defined simply as any system of prohibiting the individual from having the ability to compromise the rights of the society while prohibiting the society from having the ability to compromise the rights of the individual. Modern capitalism allows the individual to compromise the rights of the society and modern socialism allows the society to compromise the rights of the individual. So both systems are completely wrong and both systems are failing, it just so happens that socialism corrupts a little faster than capitalism...
2007-01-22 13:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Communism is based on a "classless society," a society in which everyone is equal and there are no real "leaders." Everyone is supposed to share everything with everyone else, and no one is supposed to be better than anyone else.
This, of course, is impossible. A true classless society cannot function, because any society - no matter what type - must have some type of leadership, and in order to be a leader you have to be "different" than the rest of the society, meaning "better." The Soviets took the idea of communism and corrupted it into what everyone thinks of whenever you mention the term today; North Korea, China, and Cuba have done the same thing. In those "classless" societies, the leaders live in luxury while the people live in near poverty.
As the old saying from the Peter Principle goes: "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely." A leader in a communist society has just that - absolute power.
2007-01-19 05:29:10 · answer #3 · answered by Team Chief 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They consistently demand a atheist agenda. People the World over enjoy believing in a spiritual aspect of life. Communism removes this.
Socialism on the other hand consistently does not force the Godless agenda and works well "IF" they have a source of money. Norway has a form of social Monarchy that has an elected congress and a traditional King. With all the North Sea oil money to boost the economy the system works very well.
Go big Red Go
2007-01-19 05:33:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because its never been seperated from powerful banking figures that operate above the system imo ... its the same for other forms of govt, but communism is custom-made and tailored to be taken advantage of by large banks... they are an outside controlling force that makes a situation for the leaders like they are in the drivers seat but someone else has control of the wheel ...
2007-01-19 05:28:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...nature of man...
But why do people keep asking about Communism? It's dead and gone and everyone knows that now. A little Socialism wouldn't hurt anybody, but Communism?? I don't think anyone will ever try it again. (Unless the Chinese take over the world. Which, given the way the US is mucking things up, might happen...)
2007-01-19 05:31:26 · answer #6 · answered by Joey's Back 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As an economic system, any attempt (even if well intentioned)
to make everyone in society middle class inevitably makes
everyone poor. It stifles creativity and hard work.
2007-01-19 05:26:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Every idea fails its up to people to rethink the idea then try again this has not happened yet with communism it's been one why of doing it
2007-01-22 08:41:48 · answer #8 · answered by mat67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just shows you that there is no uniform standard of living; it is very boring to wake up every morning to the same monotonous routine day in and day out.
2007-01-19 05:28:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the worker bees always fly off to greener pastures, where they can earn a fair wage for their hard work.
2007-01-19 05:27:20 · answer #10 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋