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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by wordbank on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:56AM (#9505028)
The strongest argument against communism is "How could a man plan economy if he can't plan his todo list app without producing bugs?"

People tend to fail in simple predictions but communists and hardcore socialists still believe they can manually control systems of enormous complexity.

Number of failed communist regimes confirms they can't. (But these regimes are quite good at producing death and starvation.)

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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by copsarebastards on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:23PM (#9507600)
You seem to have conflated communism, an economic system, with totalitarianism, a system of government.

There are plenty of working socialist republics, and democratic communes are alive and well (albeit on a smaller scale).

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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by wordbank on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:13PM (#9509653)
Communism is a philosophy in the first place. It leads to a certain type of governing and managing economy. On practice it also lead into a totalitarian state every single time.
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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by copsarebastards on Friday May 08, 2015 @07:53AM (#9511022)
Communes and kibbutzes are almost universally democratically governed, so no it does not lead to a totalitarian state every time. That's a ridiculous claim.
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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by wordbank on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:32AM (#9511591)
Why do kibbutzim belong to communism? Communism is based on works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. You can't just attach a "communist" tag on every commune that has shared property.
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