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While socialism/communism were good excuses to concentrate enormous amount of power and dictate every aspect of people's lives, the ideas were never the problem
by zzzcpan 9y ago
While socialism/communism were good excuses to concentrate enormous amount of power and dictate every aspect of people's lives, the ideas were never the problem. It's just those concentrating wealth want you to believe otherwise, so they can keep get wealthier and wealthier. It's not that hard to help the poor without a dictatorship, the system is already in place in every country in the world, just one small law and there will be no more homeless, poor and unhealthy, only slightly annoyed and less rewarded rich.
- tengbretson 9y agoThats an incredibly unfair comparison. You're judging communism based on the merits of its intentions and ideas, meanwhile condemning capitalism for its failings in practice.
- pzone 9y agoOh of course. Next time when we implement socialism, nobody at all will be interested in concentrating power and abusing it for personal benefit. How silly of me to think that might happen for the hundred and first time after a hundred times in the past.
- uoaei 9y agoPeople will always do this. The goal becomes to leave the power in a democratized space, as socialism dictates. When labor members own their fair shares of the companies that are interacting on the market, they will make decisions socially and profit proportionally. Exploitation in its current form will be greatly reduced. Naturally any economic system bears its own unique issues to contend with, but these can be addressed in time for what seems at this point to be a net improvement in inequality.