Comment on Anti-Communism by leandrotr
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"Stalin wasn't real communism WAH WAH, now let's talk about how great of a system is to accuse non-communists of treason and nazism with no further evidence."
I wasn't talking about stalinism though.
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I know what communism is. It's a philosophy of economic equality, internationalism, anarchy, and worker's self management. It is inherently a nice idea. However, it has historically either:
A. Caused a food shortage
B. Led to horrible dictatorships like those Stalin, Mao, Castro, the Kims, and even Lenin ran (this is, most of the time what happened)
C. Resulted in invasions partly due to a lack of a well trained militia
Additionally, collectivism cracks down on individualism, so such a society where everyone is the same would inherently "drop the hammer" on success and individuality because it needs everyone to be the same, and yet the community would need to do so, not the government, and when the government does it, we get something like the Soviet Union.
A. Caused a food shortage
B. Led to horrible dictatorships like those Stalin, Mao, Castro, the Kims, and even Lenin ran (this is, most of the time what happened)
C. Resulted in invasions partly due to a lack of a well trained militia
Additionally, collectivism cracks down on individualism, so such a society where everyone is the same would inherently "drop the hammer" on success and individuality because it needs everyone to be the same, and yet the community would need to do so, not the government, and when the government does it, we get something like the Soviet Union.
That bit about individualism vs. collectivism is why Marxism of any kind will never work in a country like the US because the country was founded on the principles of individualism, not collectivism. The only kind of the Collectivism that exists is the phrase - All Men Are Created Equally. Other than that nod to God(another thing Marxism doesn't like), the country driving force is the efforts of the individual, not the whole.
True that. Collectivism could probably work in smaller communities in the hundreds or even thousands, and if the people are the types who want to work as a group and not on their own, but other than that, no no. Not in one of the big bad countries like America.
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Absolutely. 
see, how come people think its hard to understand BOTH sides?
Because so many people, from all the different sides, are stubborn fools who are more concerned with their own ideology than focusing on what is actually true about the world. Beware the visionary I always say.
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