I mean, come on, everybody working hard for everybody else. Sounds like utopia, right? Perfect society. Oh yeah, what about that people do what they want for their own benefit?
2007-08-05 09:07:43 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ideally Communism looks like paradise but reality is not paradise. Communism assums that everyone has the same zeal and intellegence. Unfortunately for Communists people are different. Some are zealous others are lazy and still others are somewhere in between. Everyone is supposed to be equal under a Communist system. Reality is some are MORE equal than others. It turns out to be dictatorship by committee rather than one person.
2007-08-05 09:48:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Communism is a pipe dream that can not succeed in the real world.
The free market is an equally foolish pipe dream. The right extreme is just as foolish as the left extreme.
The market system does not work efficiently without competition. Competition requires an evenly enforced, fair set of rules, which means regulation by a representative government. Just as professional sports establish governing bodies to maintain competitive fields, markets need governing bodies to remain competitive. This is the role of government, and it is based in our constitution. The U.S. government has been regulating industry since before the first time a train hit a cow back in the early 1800's, and cow catchers on trains became mandatory.
This is the historically proven method to success. All first world nations are based on market economies regulated by representative governments with social security safety nets for those who fall out of the system. It all has to be balanced to work.
S Korea, the latest nation to emerge from third world to first world status did so by developing strong unions, that cleaned up their corrupt governments. Unions/guilds created the market system during the Renaisance. A large number of our founding fathers were Masons, a society based on the concepts of unions.
Humans are social animals, and this is a huge part of our success. Good representative government and strong market economies go hand in hand. One requires the other.
2007-08-05 16:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by poet1b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Communism only appeals to impoverished nations that are told by their leaders that we can make your life better by taking money away from the very wealthy and giving it to you. This works for a while but the producers then have little incentive to work since they know most of their reward will be taken away from them. Then the people begin to wonder where is all the food, housing, and all the other stuff that was once available to them. So no, mass starvation should not be embraced.
2007-08-05 16:21:16 · answer #3 · answered by thetimbosley 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
History is littered with the wreckage of regimes that tried communism and failed.
What is interesting though is that generally, especially in the case of Russia, the people are better off after the fall of Communism then they were before the rise of communism.
If you fear communism you should do what is necessary to prevent the rise of communism's after life, socialism.
Socialists, are merely anti capitalist breast beaters with no plan but, their threat to your way of life is real. They have a way of whipping up the zeal of the so called have-nots who are ready to take what you have and make it disappear so that even they won't have it.
2007-08-05 16:35:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some communist ideals are good. Communists hang and shoot traitors and here in America we have not done that in a long time. We should start, and anyone who says an American loss in Iraq is a problem for them or their party is a traitor. Are the liberals in Congress listening...
2007-08-05 18:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've worked in a union most of my life, except for a few years.
A union is pretty much like communism in that we all get paid the same and get the same raises. And most of it's members are frustrated because of that. In the places I worked non-union, I found that peoples attitude and work ethic were much better than the union shops. There was something in it for them, a natural human condition. If I'm going to work harder than the next guy I want to get compensated accordingly.
2007-08-05 16:15:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
We may find out in 2009.
The Democrats are poised to take the country completely over in the next election.
And the Democrat Party has already been taken over by Left-Wingers, Communists, and Socialists.
These little "wanna-be commies", may find out they don't like being under Socialist Rule.
2007-08-05 16:19:00 · answer #7 · answered by wolf 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Native Americans allegedly practiced communism but not the Chinese or Russian kind.
It depends on the people
You have to study philosophy to get an idea.
I was told that Communism influenced a field called Socioly the study of societies
2007-08-05 16:15:55 · answer #8 · answered by American Dissenter 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Communism sounds great in theory, but it has never worked wherever it has been tried. With those odds, why should we want to embrace it?
Democracy stinks sometimes, but it has worked far better than any other system in the world.
2007-08-05 16:13:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That has to be the dumbest question I have ever heard. Look at all the communist countries now. People will risk their lives to get out of Cuba. They do it illegally for the freedoms we have now.
2007-08-05 16:12:53 · answer #10 · answered by bridge 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋