Not too complex at all. Simply keep the economy nationalized so we don't have corporate ***** seizing power and dominating our lives. GOVERNMENTS HAVE TO MEET PROTOCALS. Scared of a socio-fascist dictatorship forming and doing the same thing as the corporate pigs? LET THE PEOPLE STEP IN. (IE: Impeach the ******* and elect someone who can do the job without being a greedy sack of ****)
The greater wealth doesn't provide to all. Just the social elite. Sooner or later corporate pigs prevent the trickle down by axing minimum wages, cutting corners in safe, sanitary working conditions and pushing out cheap products at a high price. This we all know is the exact fantasy of every libertarian nutjob out there.
Since that goon Hugo hasn't replied yet...
The thing was, eisan was asking you to defend marx's ideal system.
Ideal. Throughout history communism has abysmally failed. People have taken communism from its true form, and mutated it because they were they were the ultimate - the dictator. Anyone may start off with good intentions. ****, I think communism is a pretty good idea, but only in its ideal state. The fault lies not in the system, but in the people. With that much power, and millions of people bowing at the point of your finger because you're a dictator, the power would get to ANYONE's head. It doesn't matter who you are. If you had millions of people, an entire economy, and lavishes in your very grasp, you'd be willing to let them go after the country stabilizes itself? Because in communism, in its true form, the dictatorship will ideally have dissolved.
Earth has never actually seen a communist government, because at no point in history (that I know of), has there been a dictatorship that has willingly dissolved. Sure, the people could try and overthrow the dictator, but there's two flaws, a) a new leader would probably arise from the rebellion because society would need a new figurehead to help re-stabilize. It's just natural progression to have someone lead/organize a rebellion, and even more natural for them to assume complete leadship again (thus, going byebye of communism) b) the dictator would already have the country under control in such a fashion that he'd have his own brainwashed military to save him.
Now, aside from the fact that communism is just so *** damned ideal, here are some other flaws...
- try putting North America into a democratic state. How many people would work from the good of their heart to make an effort to be a doctor when they are paid as much as a garbage man? Where is the motivation to better oneself if there are no rewards? The Western World has learnt that for hard work, you get a cookie, and for lazy work, you get a welfare check.
- people have naturally evolved with a socio-economic ladder to guide them. Though most people will claim that it "sucks", how many people actually think they could thrive with no competition? No variation?
- experiences will be limited to that which the society will allow/provide. It won't provide the same opportunities.
- the economy will be at a standstill and non-comparable to the rest of the world economy. Because things are mass controlled, they will not be good enough to compete, their technologies will be behind. There's no free market for competition to better what is available, so everything has to come from a government-controlled, non-experimental environment.
Basically, with what you're given in today's world, you can't make communism. Not unless you forcefully and en masse breed the desire for known freedom and democracy out of people, and make them ignorant and desireless of and for the past. You'd be hard-pressed to find a big enough rebellious group to subdue an entire global population of people, because unless you have the whole world under seige, there is no way people are going to be ignorant of what else is going on in the world.
