Posted: Sep 13, 2017 7:20 am
Well, your last couple of posts were juuuuust skirting around the "no true Scotsman" fallacy in regards to communism. If not directly falling into them. The point is, it just doesn't work when people try to put it into practice. It WAS put into effect in Russia and China, it just didn't work because fascism... and frankly, if you try communism, you get fascism. I tried to explain why, but with too few details.
Here's a better solution: you (or anyone else, really) try to figure out a way to give everyone equal access to everything everyone produces without a system of mandates and distribution in place.
I think "everything being run through and distributed by the government" is too much central power. Capitalism relies a lot on private enterprises and, by extension, the concept of private ownership. Even then, the government often has to intervene to keep things (relatively) fair. Communism doesn't rely on private ownership of anything... everything is public-use. So how do they make sure that everyone has equal access? There needs to be a central authority to guide who gets how much, when, and how often, otherwise the "equality" that communism promises can't exist. The selfish nature of humanity leads to hoarding, to rackets, and to all that manner of things unless there's a force to keep it in check. But the central authority itself is subject to that nature, and since every resource in the country has to be directly managed by the government to assure that everything is kept "fair"... do you see the problem yet?
That is, it involves mass distribution according to government mandates.
Does it? Citations?
Here's a better solution: you (or anyone else, really) try to figure out a way to give everyone equal access to everything everyone produces without a system of mandates and distribution in place.
What constitutes to much central power?
I think "everything being run through and distributed by the government" is too much central power. Capitalism relies a lot on private enterprises and, by extension, the concept of private ownership. Even then, the government often has to intervene to keep things (relatively) fair. Communism doesn't rely on private ownership of anything... everything is public-use. So how do they make sure that everyone has equal access? There needs to be a central authority to guide who gets how much, when, and how often, otherwise the "equality" that communism promises can't exist. The selfish nature of humanity leads to hoarding, to rackets, and to all that manner of things unless there's a force to keep it in check. But the central authority itself is subject to that nature, and since every resource in the country has to be directly managed by the government to assure that everything is kept "fair"... do you see the problem yet?