Communism are associated with totalitarianism and authoritarianism for the same reason fire is associated with hot: pretty much every time that it's tried the same thing happens.
When the blueprint for achieving a stateless society includes creating an all-powerful dictatorship, and the next step is that that all powerful dictatorship is supposed to just magically disappear, that's just to be expected.
The problem isn't the social or the commune, it's the ism. There are lots of people who are perfectly happy with the current system which while flawed has led to the greatest improvement in material quality of life in human history for more people than ever before in history, despite the many and obvious flaws of that system. Therefore, to switch to a different system that insists it'll change everything you're going to need to use force to get universal adoption.
In my view, an ideal system is one under which people are free to choose how they want to live. If you want a commune you can do so without oppressing those who don't. If you want to create a workers cooperative you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't, and I'd you want to engage in free trade you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't. There have been eras when US had a similar system to this, but it's sort of unstable and eventually someone wants to make everyone else do their ism.
When the blueprint for achieving a stateless society includes creating an all-powerful dictatorship, and the next step is that that all powerful dictatorship is supposed to just magically disappear, that's just to be expected.
The problem isn't the social or the commune, it's the ism. There are lots of people who are perfectly happy with the current system which while flawed has led to the greatest improvement in material quality of life in human history for more people than ever before in history, despite the many and obvious flaws of that system. Therefore, to switch to a different system that insists it'll change everything you're going to need to use force to get universal adoption.
In my view, an ideal system is one under which people are free to choose how they want to live. If you want a commune you can do so without oppressing those who don't. If you want to create a workers cooperative you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't, and I'd you want to engage in free trade you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't. There have been eras when US had a similar system to this, but it's sort of unstable and eventually someone wants to make everyone else do their ism.
- replies
- 0
- announces
- 1
- likes
- 5