Do you agree that Communism is the best system? just not for humans?

Question

humans r innately greedy and selfish.

how can u form a utopia when everyone wants more and want more for themselves?

but ANTS on the other hand prosper from communism. They thrive on this system for millions of years longer than the dinosaurs.

So capitalism is good because some of us can have good lives while some live in misery but to really better as a civilization and as better individuals...we would eventually have to be like ants. Think about the greater good not just urself....be Communists and happy.

And eventually..everybody would have a very nice house to live in and all would have ps3s as the nation prospers. Then 200 yrs down the road...everyone will have their own jets.

Do you agree that Communism is the best system? ideally of course

PLEASE READ MY ENTIRE POST BEFORE POSTING. these 3 answers i have is most unsatisfying

Answer 1

I agree that in the perfect ideal circumstances, Communism is the best form of government/economics. Karl Marx was a brilliant philosopher, and if all his conditions for society were ever met it would function brilliantly. However, a perfectly ungreedy and peaceful population is required, and one small flaw can throw it all off.

But I think the idea that everyone would get a private jet with communism is highly unrealistic - everyone would simply be happy and that's the bottom line.

Communism in general gets a bad rap because of the horribly violent and supressive governments that tried to get there. They got to Socialism - the stage before Communism in Hegel's dialectical model - but were gotten rid of before they achieved it. Mao and company tried to get there with the Five Year Economic Plan 'Great Leap Forward' but it failed miserably because he only tried it to get there before the Soviets, and China as a whole was not ready.

Apologies for the history lesson, but bottom line is that I agree with you.

Answer 2

No it is not. Humans are naturally competitive, greedy and want to be rewarded for hard work. All things gotten rid of for the "greater good" in communism. Forcing humans to forgo these natural desires, then imprisoning or executing them for speaking out against it is the most unjust system. And the oppression comes naturally with communism since you also have to remove religion from the public, which people will fight, then be imprisoned or executed for. Marx may have had a few decent ideas and goals, but the untold human suffering that resulted from people using his ideology should never be allowed to happen again. And no, everyone would not have a nice house with ps3s, as my parents often told me, money does not grow on trees. Why would Sony produce some 300 million PS3s if they don't get paid for them, and if you even think the government could your crazy. Everyone would not live in nice houses, we would all live in our dingy little apartments, exactly the same as our neighbors, so that we could be close to our slave house, I mean job. Individuality is good, suppressing it, as you do in communism is not good for people, and thus communism is unjust. Ideally, forcing humans to operate in a bizarre social experiment for the ya yas of some dictator don't really strike me as being good. Communism seeks equality through thievery, confiscation and poverty, Capitalism seeks equality through opportunity.

Answer 3

I would agree with part of what you say, but you don't want that, so excuse me for agreeing that communism, blah blah blah. What I don't understand is how the corporations will be helping me. Corporations are not all ears to hear about what I need. The corporations are acting on a paradigm of yesterday, and the world is changing faster than the corporations can adapt. When I look at what corporations are doing right now, and at my individual needs and those of most other people, the benefit seems to go to fat cat executives at the top of the corporations, and no one else in particular.

Answer 4

True communism can't work. Human nature wouldn't allow it, and doesn't. There will always be someone in power with 'more'. Communism crushes innovation, creativity, ambition and motivation.

Capitalism may seem like an 'unfair' system to some, but it seems that most of those I know that feel that way are unwilling to work harder to get further ahead. They want handouts. In a capitalist society it is up to the individual person to succeed or fail.

Answer 5

It seems to work well for ants, termites, bees, wasps, and other hive/nest creatures.

I fail to see how such a system of expendable components could work for humans, though.

I'll take a system where the individual has the power and rights and freedoms, and not the system where the individual is considered a cog in the collective, expendable and must make himself subservient to the will of the collective.

Answer 6

Well communism just doesnt work. So whether its the best or not isnt really worth worrying about.
And seems to me Ants are in a matriarchy. Like many insects , the queen rules.

Answer 7

Ideally, it is the best government.

However, the perfect system requires a perfect leader. Unfortunately, no such person exists.

Cheers,

Ipip12 ~The Maple Leaf Forever~

Answer 8

No. Communism and capitalism are economic systems, and each have their problems. They are not forms of government.

I prefer capitalism because I have a chance to get rich.

Any system which requires war to expand is bad.

Answer 9

For ants yes, humans no..unless we become ants. Communism makes you wait in line for hours in need of food, clothes.. there will always be "the differend"..the outsider ..waiting ..or being excluded from society in either case.

Answer 10

ants have no desires themselves, they just obey their programming, which is to do whatever task they have been bred to do in furtherance of the nest. if humans were genetically wired the same way, communism would be the best way, it would be the only way we could operate. but we are not ants