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>Nothing about Communism as a concept requires massacring people. It requires either jailing or massacring people who own any property and don't want to give i
by logicchains 9y ago
>Nothing about Communism as a concept requires massacring people.
It requires either jailing or massacring people who own any property and don't want to give it up, and any people who choose to exchange goods and services with each other.
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- GVIrish 9y agoThe difference between jailing people and massacring people is HUGE though. I do think it's very difficult to get around the problem of people not wanting to give up private property when a society shifts into Communism. But in the future when/if automation can provide a very high standard of living with far less labor inputs, maybe it will become something viable in some form without massive heavy-handed coercion. I think varying forms of somewhat Socialist democracies will probably win out in the next century or so, but it's very hard to predict given that some potential advances in technology could dramatically reshape economies and governments.