> Communism would be great if people would actually be good. Communism replaces a multitude of small, localised optimisation problems with a single, centralise

> Communism would be great if people would actually be good. Communism replaces a multitude of small, localised optimisation problems with a single, centralised, completely intractable optimisation problem, and at the same time destroys the very information required to tackle that problem at all. Communism cannot work on any but the smallest scale, and is utterly doomed when applied to any modern nation state. J. B. S. Haldane - himself a socialist - pointed this out as far back as 1928.* Whether communism is inherently evil or not, we know for a fact that it cannot ever work. > The laudable ideals of any political system will need to resist man's evil nature The solution to that is not to permit the government the ability to cause great harm to its citizens in the first place. * See "On Being the Right Size", an essay mostly on scaling in biology, but also touching on related subjects.