Communism VS. Capitalism ?

Question

What do you think, which is better? Why?

note: not stalin's 'communism' but true comunusm...

Ok I see that none of you knows what communism is.

Communism is a system without government, without money without laws. You just go to work, don't get salary, then go to a super market and get all the products you want without paying. I think that in america people have been frightend of communism by their governments. There was no communism in Russia Yugoslavia, or the othr eastern european countries. There is no communism in China, but monarchy. Communism can come in certain countires, but in the whole world. Communism can't come by revolution, but by evolution. You don't get it. Ok doesn't matter just forget I asked

All of you think that Communism = Monarchy

Answer 1

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production.
Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are mostly privately owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a free market.

When these basic concepts are tried in reality they are modified by the societies using them.

Capitalism is efficient, human, automatic.
Communism is artificial, inhuman, inefficient and contrived.

Answer 2

first, communism and capitalism don't compete.. democracy and communism compete.. socialism and capitalism compete.

democracy and communism are ways of government.. capitalism and socialism are how you handle the money and property.

noted on stalin.. stalinism was nothing like what communism was meant to be.. but he showed communisms greatest problems.. the system is way too susceptible to corruption. also, there is no incentive to make people want to work hard since they try to use pure socialism. Democracies allow us to vote out corrupt leaders... and in that way are more resilient to corruption. Pure capitalism would squash the average buyer.. so no one actually has a pure capitalistic society.. they are all at least slightly regulated by the government (socialism) so in the end the best government in my opinion is a democracy that is mostly capitalistic with a small amount of socialism in the balance.

Answer 3

Communism takes away any incentive for anyone to try and produce anything. If all the rewards from my hard work at my job went to the state for the good of "the many", I could not have my nice house, fresh groceries, my pickup, or any of a number of nice things about living and working for myself and my family. So if all the rewards of my work go to the state and the state provides all for me, why should I work when the state provides for me with the efforts of all the suckers that put their all into the system for the good of the many. I have a lot of incentive to work for the good of my family, but not everyone else's families.

You make communism sound like utopia. Someone has conned you but good.

Answer 4

Karl Marx was an idealistic non realist when he wrote Mien Comp which is Communism in its purest form. In your wildest dreams it sounds like pure heaven but in reality you will always have a few selfish souls who want to be better or put themselves above the others. The Alpha male is always so very competitive. Capitalism allows that competitive spirit to be productive and flourish. In so doing it also makes way for low lifes to exist.

Answer 5

The community can do all it wants to meet the needs of it's people, the problem is there are individuals who will want to live better than the rest of the community. It's human nature to compete for more, more, and more, we are greedy by nature its a survival mechanism to acquire more than you need. Mankind will have to adopt some sort of communism if there interested in long-term occupancy on our planet, a storm is coming.

Answer 6

capitalism:
Three men are take a job painting an 8 feet tall 24 feet long wall and will be paid when the job is done. When they finish, they move on to take more jobs and earn more money.

communism:
24 men are assigned to paint a wall 8 feet high and 24 feet long, 17 years later, the wall is still not finished, They still get their allotted rations and no one has seen them for 10 years.

True story of my trip to East Germany in 1985.

Communism can't work if their is just one person who won't pull their fair share of work. A colony can't survive if 1000 people try to live off the labor of 10.

Answer 7

I think the mixed economy that America and the rest of the first world countries have today is the best system. It took a democratic government to stop private corporations from using child labor, abusing workers, scamming consumers, and polluting the environment.

Private enterprise by itself does not guarantee that every child regardless of the social class he was born into will get educated. Democratic government, on the other hand, has helped millions of people through public education, state subsidized and owned universities, student grants, subsidized loans, GI Bills, job training, head start, and other social programs.

Answer 8

Considering the record of the communist systems and their clear lack of progress in most cases. Capitalism is much better for the people. Communism is good for bees or ants, not for intelligent life forms.

Answer 9

I think Capitalism is better, since it's been shown to work, and nobody's ever gotten Communism to work. At some point a reasonable person begins to think that maybe there's a reason it hasn't worked yet.

Answer 10

Capitalism is not what we really have.

ParEcon seems like a better alternative in a lot of ways.

But nothing trumps human nature, which probably prevents all three from ever working.