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True communism is impossible without perfect (i.e. morally incorruptible) people. People who hate on "capitalism" are often (I think) troubled by the behavior
by TimTheTinker 8y ago
True communism is impossible without perfect (i.e. morally incorruptible) people.
People who hate on "capitalism" are often (I think) troubled by the behavior of rich/powerful people. I am too. But the solution isn't to remove property rights.
- jstewartmobile 8y agoBoth are over-abstracted materialist belief systems of how society should function. The new religions.
- fallingfrog 8y agoI would have to disagree with that, because it's too broad. I would say it is true that you can't have a society with no feedbacks- in other words, consequences. Carrots and sticks. In capitalism, the most important feedback is profit. But profit as the main feedback path has obvious problems- it ignores human suffering and environmental damage and so forth. That's why pure capitalism can only exist as an abstraction. You have to put it within a very carefully designed legal system. Communism is the same way. A society where every product of industry is free, and nobody has to work, is obviously silly. However a communist society with appropriate consequences in place is completely plausible.
- throwaway37585 8y ago> a communist society with appropriate consequences in place is completely plausible Example?