hypermind wrote:
there are many forms of communism, i dont think all are necessarily unpractical. communism is the political term for materialistic egalitarianism. this can go two ways: the totalitarian or even fascistic direction; or the liberal or even the more anarchistic direction. the last would resemble utopia, but has potentially as much problems as the fascistic version, but there has to be a way this would work. this one is indeed fragile, as anarchy on a large scale is obviously a bad idea. still there are anarchistic communities that have proven to work, so there has to be a way. also anarchistic forms of communism arent necessarily truely anarchistic. but else just stick to the liberal democratic version.
fascism is obviously out of the question.
Communism works ONLY if people truly believe in it.. much like anything else, you cannot force people to give up what is theirs.. So the second you have some people against communism, it no longer works.. It would also infringe on personal freedom as you'd be expected to give earnings up as a written rule, not 'unwritten' ..
The best form, right now, is Libertarian.. No government, only personal drive running the country.. Most problems are derived from too much government involvement.. But for such a drastic change to happen we'd need either another World War that would collapse governments (terrorist attacks on all governments) or somehow create a 'chaos..'As well, a teaching in meditation (people are going to hate me for constantly involving it but it simply works, think of it as exercising your arm only replace 'arm' with 'mind')
*chaos would allow everyone to get the bent up frustration of 'following written rules out' of there system..
30 Sep 2006, 8:31 pm
