Comment by jojobas
2 years ago
The theory might or might not have worked if the leadership wasn't hell-bent on converting the entire world into their ideology by military force.
Which it kind of had to do lest their citizens noticed they live in abject poverty compared to other countries.
So in other words the crappy economic theory drove the militarism, lest the population recognize the fallout of the theory for what it was?
Sounds like most economic theories that are implemented around the globe today to me.
There are shades of grey, and then there's jet black.
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It's not obvious that the militarism wasn't primary to the theory. World revolution won't make itself.
Well, to be fair, the idea was abandoned back in the 1930s.
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The article presents a beautiful, self-contained, anecdotal but representative example of why communism never worked, doesn’t work, won’t work, and wouldn’t work in your imaginary parallel spider-man universe scenario.
Is there a way to read what I wrote without getting that I'm not a fan of communism at all? There shouldn't be. I have enough family anecdotes of how bad it could be. Also I hope you meant to say "...except in your imaginary..." cause in this one it definitely didn't.
It's not really about communism, though.
You'd have to be blind not to see parallels under capitalism. Employees cannot profit from inventions and improvements, so they don't engage in them. Improving efficiency means budget cuts and animosity from under performers.
This might not be true for smallest companies, but those don't really drive the economy.
We can say with certainty that capitalist economy has a feature of an invention/idea implementation of which is funded, and pursued by motivated people with the goal of becoming rich (often known as 'startups'). Sometimes they succeed, and give a push to economy, or science. No equivalent exists in communist model.
Except employees do in fact benefit from innovations and improvements, and most inventions and innovations of the past 100 years come from capitalist, not socialist, countries. To the contrary, soviet orgs paid set awards for "rationalizing suggestions", and without the market value control 99% of them were of course bullshit.
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