Socialism? Communism?

Question

Your opinion. It will never work. It is not right to use force on another to make them do what you want them to do.

Answer 1

I believe that the ultimate government will never be found. There is no perfect way to manage a group of people. But dictatorships are not the way top go. Democracy is the closest you will ever get to perfect.

Answer 2

Communism would work in a very small society, where everyone is willing to work for the good of the society. Many small communities actually are communistic where the resources generated by the community are distributed equally in the community. Communism only works if all members of the community or society are willing to work hard and share for the benefit of the community or society rather than their own benefit.

Socialism, on the other hand, is essentially government forced wealth redistribution, take from the rich and give to the poor. While this benefits the poor with things like health care, food stamps, housing, education, etc. it is paid for by the rich.

Answer 3

Communism doesn't work--the USSR spent 75 years proving that.

Socialism (which I DON'T support) is an entirely differentsystem, however--and in countries like Sweden has worked fairly well.

The technical difference is that communism abolishes the market and private property--and despit the nice-sounding theoruy, this ends up subordinating everyone to what can only be a dictatorship-since any real freedom is barred by the basic structure.

Socialism does not abolish private property (nor the market (i.e. businesses). It does include the ownership by the state of much of the productive sector--usually in the form of state-owned or joint state-private ownership. And many (not all) socialist states do have strong safeguards on civil liberties/rights--again, Sweden is a good example.

You could argue that the only reason such socialist economies work is the market (thus capitalist) dimesion of the economy--and I'll agree that's probably the main reason.

Answer 4

Depending on the country you are in, its social and economic circumstances, and the degree of oppression suffered by the population, socialism/communism/fascism/nazism may become appealling to a given society.

That is not to say that such alternatives are desirable. But when the "have nots" do not see any other alternative to solve their social problems using the system in place, a system that offers some sort of equity (at least in theory) is indeed appealling.

Does capitalism work? Well, obviously it has survived the test of time in the last 300 years.

Does it work everywhere in the world? Again, that depends. It seems to work in the OECD. But that does not seem to be the case in developing and underdeveloped countries, where the wealth distribution seems to tilt in favour of a few powerful families (this is called oligarchy).

For the underdog, if the system does not provide the basic necessities of life, anything but the system that oppresses him/her is something to strive for.

Unfortunately, history shows that once a system is overthrown by revolutionary means, a new elite arises and the underdogs continue being oppressed (save for a minority who subscribes to the dominant regime and "milks" benefits from the new system).

We could also criticise the ascend of new dynasties (like Castro, and the dude from North Korea)... but we can also observe the same type of trend in "democratic" societies such as the USA and Australia: EG Bush Sr, and GW Bush, Clinton and Hillary, in Western Australia: Richard Court (ex-premier), and his father, a former WA premier. Federally, foreign minister Downer, whose father was also high in politics in the past.

Answer 5

Force??? Who needs force? The left-wingers are willingly voting away our freedom. They have succumbed to the class envy syndrome fed to them by the Democratic Party.

Corporations (like Haliburton) are EVIL.

The rich got their money by taking advantage of others.

It's not fair that some people make more money than others.

Everyone should make the same amount of money, regardless of how productive they are or what contributions they've made.

Everything in life (especially healthcare) should be FREE.

Does all this sound familiar? I've spoken to many people from former Communist, Eastern-Bloc countries. Life SUCKED for everyone (but slightly less so for the Government stooges.) Their motto was: "we pretended to work and the government pretended to pay us."

This is why the Lib-Tard zombies, and other idiots vote for Democrats; they are losers in life with nothing else left to lose.

Answer 6

Forcing anybody into to doing something will always lead to failure (unless you drop 2 nuclear bombs on them or totally conquer them). The US never invaded the Soviet Union or China and now they both have very successful Capitalist economies & have more freedoms than they've ever had. Are they perfect Democracies, no, but democracies aren't 100% perfect & can have just as many problems as any other form of Govt it's Capitalism that keeps countries free.

Answer 7

i believe that communisim is ideal but i know it would never work. socialism on the otherhand i dont like. but the only way to possibly achieve true communisim is via a marxist begenning. the use if violence to acheive a communisit means. but in reality that is almost impossible. communisim does exist in small personal communities. although not 100% true it does exist. one large house with upwards of 30 inhabatents all pitching in equal portions for bills and sharing whatever they have is a reality. mostly done by small anarchist factions and underground resistance groups (go figure those exist in America).

Answer 8

well... what we think of as "communism"... of course not, but they are basically dictatorships with a few socialist programs thrown in for looks...

you have countries with democratic socialist systems now in Europe where freedoms are treasured, just like they are here... no one is making anyone do anything...

I think it can work in a democratic system that is educated and values freedom...

but it's hard to make any system work with an uneducated populous and no beliefs in freedom...

Answer 9

"It is not right to use force on another to make them do what you want them to do"

You mean like America has been trying to do around the world since the end of WWII?

Answer 10

It works all over the world in countries outside of the US. They are culturally different than us. We see it as oppressive and annoying. They see it as a natural way of life. Who are we to change their natural state of being? Survival of the fittest, right?