Communism never really existed because it always required authoritarians to run it. While idealistic in its conception, it completely failed to take into account the fact that humanity is at least as selfish as it is either empathetic or idealistic. The communist suppression of individual initiative and thus the personal rewards gained t…
Communism never really existed because it always required authoritarians to run it. While idealistic in its conception, it completely failed to take into account the fact that humanity is at least as selfish as it is either empathetic or idealistic. The communist suppression of individual initiative and thus the personal rewards gained thereby reduced producers to virtual automatons, a form of existence not possible unless it is mandated and controlled by force, and even then the current of opposition was always going to make the society too unstable for long duration.
Capitalism, on the other hand, has hardly failed precisely because it greatly rewards the personal intuitive that communism suppresses, although its predatory nature and its regular, savage depredations along with its inherent inequality keep roiling society with jealousy and grievance. But there are too many at the top of the food chain with great incentive to maintain it. and they have too great a capacity for control of the political scene through the power of financial influence and collusion for any kind of failure.
Communism never really existed because it always required authoritarians to run it. While idealistic in its conception, it completely failed to take into account the fact that humanity is at least as selfish as it is either empathetic or idealistic. The communist suppression of individual initiative and thus the personal rewards gained thereby reduced producers to virtual automatons, a form of existence not possible unless it is mandated and controlled by force, and even then the current of opposition was always going to make the society too unstable for long duration.
Capitalism, on the other hand, has hardly failed precisely because it greatly rewards the personal intuitive that communism suppresses, although its predatory nature and its regular, savage depredations along with its inherent inequality keep roiling society with jealousy and grievance. But there are too many at the top of the food chain with great incentive to maintain it. and they have too great a capacity for control of the political scene through the power of financial influence and collusion for any kind of failure.