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Is Communism good?
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Yes 375 66.25%
No 191 33.75%
Total: 523 votes
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D.Ork Bimboolean
Aug 26, 2016

Democratic Socialism with some well regulated markets and luxury capitalism doesn't sound that bad as the go to model for the current world.

The most important trick seems to be having an accountable, transparent, and well balanced(in terms of powers/oversight/adaptability) government. Especially in a world where you are constantly fighting off internal and external powers who all want a piece of whatever you got and will happily use every nasty tactic in the book to get their fingers into the pie.

Once any country, organization, community, or union develops cancerous closed cabals, consolidating the means and strings of power beyond the eyes and reach of the system its screwed. The people can't unfetter themselves without unreasonable effort and/or violence and then it doesn't matter what the label of your system is. They can be vulture capitalists, military juntas, corporate mercenaries, puppet governors, or loving Negan.

Communism's place seems to be in a future point for humanity when things like labor, markets, even money don't really make much sense anymore since technology has made such things obsolete. That sounds pretty far fetched and utopian, but its becoming harder to deny the power of automation. Human labor only has so much utility and nothing is stopping the growth technologies which not just make production scale into obscene quantities, but also taking over the managing aspects of the running and decision making as well.

D.Ork Bimboolean fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Jan 24, 2017

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