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Originally posted by Barry the Sprout:
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Originally posted by B_part:
Communism holds freedom as central? then why are ALL communist regimes dictatorships? Since 1917 I haven't seen a democratic communist regime.
Yes, you might object they weren't true communists, they all misunderstood the Holy Kapital by Marx. Then I ask you, doesn't the fact that all of the communisrt revolution failed to be true communist mean that communism is an impossible form of government?
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Communism does hold freedom as central, whether or not you think it is workable with that in mind is another matter. I think yes, a lot of people think no. It'll be a long time before either of us could posssibly be proved conclusively right on the issue I think.
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Private property is one of the basic human rights:
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
(excerpt from the universal declaration of human rights)
Communism wants to deprive people of their private property - hence it CANNOT hold freedom as central.
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Originally posted by Barry the Sprout:
I think a communist revolution will work
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It cannot. It is not an evolutiomary stable strategy. In a communist regime the redistribution of riches ensures that you will get the same thing, no matter if you work for it or not. You will get no reward for improving anything.
Hence there is no reason to sweat - as long as they pretend to pay me, I'll pretend to work.
Eventually the whole system collapses on itself as ALL the communist regime's economies did. Do you know why during the first years of Lenin's regime, the years you regard as true communism, only then did the USSR enjoy a true improvement of life? That's because Lenin himself allowed market economy for agricoltural products... quite ironic, isn't it?