Real socialism has never been tried!!
Because it runs out of other peoples money..
SECOND AMENDMENT
When the citizenry get rewarded for not creating or producing wealth, pretty soon there is no more.
It hasn’t failed....N’ynet!
It hasn’t had enough time to succeed. /s
Chiefly because it fails to take into account human nature!
Communism and all its’s children,Fascism,Progressivism,Marxism, Democrat Party etc etc, are Ideas whose birthright is hatred.
Hatred of others that have more than them, hatred of business, hatred of people of other races and especially the “inferiors”. They hate the sick and infirm (useless eaters).
The one thing they covet more than any other is POWER, pure POWER, to rule over other people.
Although I’m sure you understand the problem, many do not.
A Communist believes that true equality CAN be possible and IS possible, with everyone sharing the work load, the food, their possessions, and everything. If life really worked that way, it would indeed be ‘Paradise’.
However, in REALITY (the one thing the true Communist can’t adjust to), people have this God-given thing in them called AMBITION. Ambition in it’s ‘good’ form drives people to make things and do things for the betterment of mankind. Ambition in its ‘bad’ form, also known as ‘greed’, makes people do things for the betterment of themselves. Humans are hard-wired with this.
To those who are greedy, a Communist society is excellent. As they rise to positions of power, they tell the people “I’ll be in charge until we get to that place where I am not longer needed. When we achieve True Communism, I will take my place among you all”. In the mind of any rational person, they KNOW, deep in their heart of hearts that there is NO WAY that person will EVER step down. In fact, they will attempt to gain more and more power until they have power over ALL.
Lenin knew this, Stalin knew this, and every leader in the Communist world knew or knows this. Some were more open about it than others and didn’t even bother to disguise their naked ambition.
Sadly, the ‘average American socialist/communist’ (or the average American who CHOOSES to stay ignorant about what they believe) has swallowed the idea that equality is possible. Those in the American socialist/communist elite keep telling them that, even though they know it not to be true.
And so it goes.
It is a system that cannot work and never will. It is based on moral relativism, which eventually twists itself into an Oligarchic Totalitarian buddy system where the ruling class gets all the royalties and the base population gets bread crumbs and watered down porridge.
Revolution is the norm from which this failed system has generated over the past 500 years or so. Chaos and anarchy are the guaranteed outcomes.
Real socialism has never been tried!!
Because it’s against human nature!
Human selfishness.
In a perfect world with perfect people who only thought of others and never of themselves, communism would be ideal.
But in the real world people who work extra hard or take risks want to be rewarded, and resent those who slack off and do nothing but demand to be taken care of.
I hope when the new folks take over that they seriously take on the job of telling us, one by one, what was wrong with WHAT obama and his cronies did and WHY the way they did it was wrong. We need to have pointed out to us the way things are supposed to work since apparently not many people know, or remember, or care.
If we can't get things back on track this time around, we are in BIG trouble.
Now is the time to educate the public on why the founding fathers did things the way they did. They would be aghast at the way Congress does things these day. They would be aghast at what the president and judges can do these days when congress doesn't stop them but actually helps them change our laws and even our Constitution.
Who will be the leader to take on this important job?? It better be someone who is a very good communicator.
because it is
anti-life
anti-human nature
anti-requirements for life proper to a rational being
anti-dictates of reason
anti-demands of reality
anti-justice
anti-morality
anti-integrity
A visit to any former commie country answers the question, no commentary required. The only reason the academics and pols here are all about communism is they’ve never seen it up close nor have been the object of its attentions. Its either by stupidity or malice that they push it.
I have first hand experience w/ RO and can say it will take at least a generation to completely throw communism off. The young kids get it, none of them want to be commies.
“Why Has Communism Failed?”
The real question is: Why does Communism fail and get resurrected, again and again, only to fail again and again and why do so many people forget the piles of dead bodies left behind by Communist swine?
IMHO
Why they fail?
**** The forces of economics and human nature are omnipresent, some simply choose to ignore them.
All of these centralized thinking forms of running an economy, society, and national government eventually smash up against reality. Eventually the reality of human nature and the forces that really drive an economy grind all of these forms of state controlled economies into dust. People are corrupt, power hungry, lazy, sexual, shortsighted and greedy. Capitalism exploits human nature for society and the nations benefit. Likewise in a centralized economy you end up loosing innovation, initiative, culpability, service, choice, pride and ownership. What you end up with is what all other government programs in this country have always become, a good example is the VA, Social Security, nearly any city public tranit system........ Capitalism pushes for maximum efficiency, drives innovation and punishes corruption and stagnation.
People advocate socialism because they are naive and idealistic, unless they are a sociopath like Hitler, Stalin, Mao. Those that follow the road to socialism, like those that bought into this national health care reform (until they read the small print!) is the great lie, a free lunch. But eventually “reality” sets in and once people really see the consequences, once they feel what it really means to have a social health care plan, they won't like it, and that's where we're at today.
Such a system is better for the people, AND the things they own.
Nothing gets abused quite as much as something that is common property. No incentive at all to take care of it. No incentive for innovation or hard work. Economically a command economy leads to idiocy like feeding bread to pigs.
“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.” A Russian explains how Communism works, or more accurately, why it doesn't actually work and how they don't actually get paid.
Fundamentally, it's a violation of the basic laws of thermodynamics.
Systems tend toward chaos unless energy is added. Collectivism is effectively a heat pump, pulling energy out of the system instead of putting energy in, until the entire system implodes in a chaotic collapse.
Not to mention it runs counter to every aspect of human psychology. It is, literally, a classic mental disorder.
"...These two world views [Christian theism vs naturalist, impersonal matter or energy shaped by impersonal chance] stand as totals in complete antithesis to each other in content and also in their natural results--including sociological and governmental results, and specifically including law.It is not that these two world views are different only in how they understand the nature of reality and existence. They also inevitably produce totally different results. The operative word here is inevitably. It is not just that they happen to produce different results, but it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring forth different results..."
- Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto (1981), page 2.