Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death
by Someone on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:10PM
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"in the sense that the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society"
That startup failed almost immediately and pivoted as a dictatorship. Calling the USSR communist is like calling Nintendo a playing card company.
Communism seems to work better for ants, bees, and termites. It also might, sort of, work for small groups of humans (extended families)
I think that explains why all communist 'startups' with over, say, 1000 people fail very soon.
Socialism has the same problem to a lesser extent. "Everybody has the right to get something" scales to larger populations than "everybody should get the same". Very few people would knowingly let their neighbors die of hunger, for example, but extending that to "come and have what we eat" is a step too far.
That startup failed almost immediately and pivoted as a dictatorship. Calling the USSR communist is like calling Nintendo a playing card company.
Communism seems to work better for ants, bees, and termites. It also might, sort of, work for small groups of humans (extended families)
I think that explains why all communist 'startups' with over, say, 1000 people fail very soon.
Socialism has the same problem to a lesser extent. "Everybody has the right to get something" scales to larger populations than "everybody should get the same". Very few people would knowingly let their neighbors die of hunger, for example, but extending that to "come and have what we eat" is a step too far.