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(Dadadadada!!! DA DA!! Charge!)
Wow lots has happened since I last posted here. And as you probably guessed I have lots to say.
The thing about Communism, which Dramnek is saying in a different way, is that it can only happen as a natural progression from capitalism and it requires a complete change in the mindset of the people involved. Capitalism is founded on greed/self interest (delete as you see fit) and as such that has been the basis for our minds for quite some time now. Our whole lives are governed by the principles we live under and as such it changes our minds in an attempt to make us accept what is really a destructive system.
Capitalism promotes one class of people against another. You can say that this is fair as people effectively decide which class they are going to be in,but that only works if everyone starts from square one. Which they blatantly don't. The overwhelming majority of society work for the benefit of others as it is the only way for them to live. They are wage slaves, or the proletariat. They are a class of people created expressly by capitalism, with an interest in destroying the very system which created them. That is the irony of it in my view.
So why is it still around? Because people still don't realise their own power. It is almost second nature to accept that communism is completely impossible and that man is naturally greedy. Capitalism assaults all other ways of life and then points and laughs when they fail. The problem with capitalism is that it is entrenched in people's minds more than in the physical world. But it is my sincere beleif that eventually people will realise that there is another way to do this.
As for why it hasn't worked elsewhere. It is fairly obvious from the arguments above. Because capitalism has to be overthrown by the working class it has a tendecy to cling on in people's minds if it is instead overthrown by the "representatives" of the working class. In Russia there was no strong workers movement to speak of. The country was dominated by a largely illiterate peasant population with the ability to hold the government to ransom. That is no way the kind of condition that a revolution is going to survive in. From square one the government had to resort to oppression and murder. If they had waited for a proper workers movement to have a revolutin with then things might have been different for Russian communism.
Also I should point out that communism is supposed to be a global phenomenon, which might explain its failure when applied in single countries who still have to maintain a capitalist economy to encourage trade. Just a thought...
Dramnek, just as an aside, your sig gets weirder everytime I am on here.
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