Communism would be great if human greed could be kept out of the equation. Capitalism is based on greed. Capitalism would work wonderfully if greed could be controlled, but as you see, controlling human greed is not a simple matter. The world and America of today is hung up on our RIGHTs. This situation with Covid has shown some ugly …
Communism would be great if human greed could be kept out of the equation. Capitalism is based on greed. Capitalism would work wonderfully if greed could be controlled, but as you see, controlling human greed is not a simple matter. The world and America of today is hung up on our RIGHTs. This situation with Covid has shown some ugly characteristics that many of our fellow Americans have. Time will tell what forces will prevail.
Communism, real communism, does not work in large societies. Real communism has worked in very, very small hippy communes, and possibly in the Israeli kibbutz's of the 1960's. Where a group of people decided to live together sharing the work and resources for the common good. Communism does not now, and never has existed in any country on Planet Earth. Those countries that claim to be communist are, in fact, dictatorships. They work as authoritarianism has always worked for the good of the ruler and his buddies, to the detriment of the working class, They may call each other comrades, friends, brothers, but in truth they are a more rigidly class society than even Great Britain. Capitalism as Adam Smith described is a good way of sharing wealth IF and only IF it is carefully regulated and controlled, As Adam Smith explained GREED is a common barrier to good healthy relationships in any group of people. Under FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower we saw Capitalism at its best. But as greed crept up regulated capitalism went up in a mushroom cloud. From 1980 on, as ordinary Americans. sated with "things", ignored the greed and made themselves 'feel better' by belittling, shaming, and harming any one else in our society that didn't conform to the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant "norm" they had set up to assure themselves of their superiority. (Like any human being is 'superior' to any other human being)
Communism would be great if human greed could be kept out of the equation. Capitalism is based on greed. Capitalism would work wonderfully if greed could be controlled, but as you see, controlling human greed is not a simple matter. The world and America of today is hung up on our RIGHTs. This situation with Covid has shown some ugly characteristics that many of our fellow Americans have. Time will tell what forces will prevail.
Communism, real communism, does not work in large societies. Real communism has worked in very, very small hippy communes, and possibly in the Israeli kibbutz's of the 1960's. Where a group of people decided to live together sharing the work and resources for the common good. Communism does not now, and never has existed in any country on Planet Earth. Those countries that claim to be communist are, in fact, dictatorships. They work as authoritarianism has always worked for the good of the ruler and his buddies, to the detriment of the working class, They may call each other comrades, friends, brothers, but in truth they are a more rigidly class society than even Great Britain. Capitalism as Adam Smith described is a good way of sharing wealth IF and only IF it is carefully regulated and controlled, As Adam Smith explained GREED is a common barrier to good healthy relationships in any group of people. Under FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower we saw Capitalism at its best. But as greed crept up regulated capitalism went up in a mushroom cloud. From 1980 on, as ordinary Americans. sated with "things", ignored the greed and made themselves 'feel better' by belittling, shaming, and harming any one else in our society that didn't conform to the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant "norm" they had set up to assure themselves of their superiority. (Like any human being is 'superior' to any other human being)
I have no disagreement with your opinion and observation.