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Communism is the work, to me, of rebels disliking the way things are on the basis that capitalism is essentially a form of a pyramid economy where the place is dictated by luck, i.e. into what social class or culture you find yourself in.
The premise is to create equal citizens working for a common good - equal wages. In paper its alright. But it is the product, to me, where someone's thought process has been cut short.
We are born on a scale of luck. Our history is FACT, by that I mean a product of nature. And nature carves out both diversity and favours the fitter. We are like the cogs in the machine. We produce work to finish the plan. To do this well, workers need incentive and inspiration.
Now, with natural leaders, or independent doers, it is somehwat natural (for some) to promote the idea of everyone working to a common goal. However, those wiser than their own wills realise that society isn't naturally like this. To work and to keep us alive, we have to have competition. Without this our desire burns up and this promotes laziness; or what I would call sterility.
The focus is on winning, rather than losing. Communism naturally helps the weaker. To me, I would always side with capatalism because it clearly makes us work. Those who fall by the wayside I really feel sorry for. To me, I can't be a harsh capatalist because of that. It is a weakness in reality. That feeling is the motive behind communism - but one ultimately, that lets heart rule over the truth.
I constantly remind myself of being a kid and seeing the guy go down in a ferrari and me wanting one. I didn't see that as greed then; I naturally saw it as a desire. And that is what we should all have the freedom to feel - take a look at the posts in this forum where people compare cars. If this were a true communist society - there'd be one post with one car. That's about as fun as a graveyard in winter.
Communism to me is essentially leaders leading a people but pretending not to be. Capatlism is the same but the leaders don't pretend. And on that basis, there is more truth in capitalism. Its just a shame that it has been focused too much on personal wealth rather than personal gain.
On the other hand you have to favour small goups. Competition works to keep things diverse and maximises individual achievement. And so I see the downside of a mcdonalds in every country!
Strictly, I should compare communism with democracy, and on this note I'll quote Churchil 'democracy is the worst form of government; except all the others that have been tried'.
You might do well to pick two or more countries, one democratic and one communist say and compare and contrast their history, economies, societies, culture, national demographics, economic wealth, miltary strength and then make a conclusion. Be careful if you only pick two countries on being fair - I'd suggest chosing by similar natural resources, geography, and population density.
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