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Taking everyone's possessions is not a fundamental tenet of Communism.
by Talanes 7y ago
Taking everyone's possessions is not a fundamental tenet of Communism.
- SkyBelow 7y agoBut it is more of a derived consequence. Maybe not all of their possessions, but enough that you don't enable people to engage in free trade and capitalism.
- yters 7y agoThe concept of communism is in the name. Individuals don't own property. Everything is common to all. Hence, the need for force against those who want to individually own something.
- oldsklgdfth 7y agoThere are communities at different scales. The employees in a company form a community. The community of employees owns the company, aka worker owned company. The profits of the company are distributed to the community. This is a core idea in communism, everyone has a common stake.
- yters 7y agoSure, on a small scale, where everyone buys into the concept. However, communism as a political ideology is a large scale, forced concept. This necessitate totalitarianism.
- Talanes 7y agoIf you're not willing to learn anything about the ideas you want to critique, why are you speaking up? Making arguments about something based entirely on the name of the thing is a six year olds game, you can do better I'm sure.
- yters 7y agoI've read the communist manifesto. The concept and reason for its downfall is all really obvious, and you can understand easily from the name why it is going to necessitate totalitarianism.