Why is Communism a failure?

Why has Communism failed every time it has been tried?

  • Better dead than red.

    Votes: 16 84.2%

  • Communism is the very definition of failure.

    Votes: 15 78.9%
  • Total voters
    19
Sargun

Sargun

High Prince of War
Why is Communism a failure?  Please not that any responses that imply Communism is not a failure will be discarded.

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Communism fails because once the people inside see just how better off they would be with democracy, they start to riot and protest against the regime. Communism eliminates incentives for someone to work harder. In a communist country, it's either your work or you're killed. However, in a capitalist country, you don't have to work, it's just that life is going to be crummy. However, what makes capitalism much more different is that after you've worked hard enough to feed, house, and bathe yourself, you can still work more in order to live a much more luxuries life. It's that greed that propels people in a capitalist society to have a higher productivity than a communist society.

 
Ryan Miller said:
Communism fails because once the people inside see just how better off they would be with democracy, they start to riot and protest against the regime. Communism eliminates incentives for someone to work harder. In a communist country, it's either your work or you're killed. However, in a capitalist country, you don't have to work, it's just that life is going to be crummy. However, what makes capitalism much more different is that after you've worked hard enough to feed, house, and bathe yourself, you can still work more in order to live a much more luxuries life. It's that greed that propels people in a capitalist society to have a higher productivity than a communist society.
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No,

greed  propels people to screw over other people, most of them don't work hard just know the shortcuts to an inaspendable wealth, while other due to circumstances live in the streets ,

saying that all poor people are lazy bastard cats, is like saying that all Muslims are terrorist and all Jews like money, it is an hurried generalisation.

 
Ryan Miller said:
Communism eliminates incentives for someone to work harder. In a communist country, it's either your work or you're killed. However, in a capitalist country, you don't have to work, it's just that life is going to be crummy. However, what makes capitalism much more different is that after you've worked hard enough to feed, house, and bathe yourself, you can still work more in order to live a much more luxuries life. It's that greed that propels people in a capitalist society to have a higher productivity than a communist society.
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There's plenty of downsides to communism, but this isn't one of them. The communist regimes were all neck in neck as technologically advanced and productive as the capitalist ones.

Why does 20% of the country own over 90% of the wealth? It's because they produce more wealth.

Some are usurious - lend $10 mil get $11 mil back with no contribution to the economy. But outside of financial manipulation, people can't really make money without making wealth.

If you think financial manipulation is bad or these people are getting ahead with privilege, then you may well be a commie.

But for the most part they don't work hard because they want to have $3M instead of $2M. They work hard because of some larger goal. The world is not built on top of just people who build automotives to become billionaires, it's built by people who build automotives because they love cars.

And capitalism disincentivizes people who want to sit down and do research, because they need to get a well paid shitty job to pay off their student loans. But if you were a Soviet, you can sit down and research rockets and time travel.

With automation putting more people out of a job, I think a new kind of communism will appear - basic income.

 
LoganCoffey said:
Ummm, Corruption?
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As opposed to Communism, which never had corruption?  Stalin's purges would disagree.

Rin said:
There's plenty of downsides to communism, but this isn't one of them. The communist regimes were all neck in neck as technologically advanced and productive as the capitalist ones.

Why does 20% of the country own over 90% of the wealth? It's because they produce more wealth.

Some are usurious - lend $10 mil get $11 mil back with no contribution to the economy. But outside of financial manipulation, people can't really make money without making wealth.

If you think financial manipulation is bad or these people are getting ahead with privilege, then you may well be a commie.

But for the most part they don't work hard because they want to have $3M instead of $2M. They work hard because of some larger goal. The world is not built on top of just people who build automotives to become billionaires, it's built by people who build automotives because they love cars.

And capitalism disincentivizes people who want to sit down and do research, because they need to get a well paid shitty job to pay off their student loans. But if you were a Soviet, you can sit down and research rockets and time travel.

With automation putting more people out of a job, I think a new kind of communism will appear - basic income.
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"The communist regimes were all neck in neck as technologically advanced and productive as the capitalist ones."

I don't know, only one country put men on the moon.

Augustus Caesar said:
Hey leave me out of this, I have nothing to do with Communism, Rome was a Republic Democracy
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o/

Milord said:
My bad.
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\o

 
Sargun said:
"The communist regimes were all neck in neck as technologically advanced and productive as the capitalist ones."

I don't know, only one country put men on the moon.
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The moon landing was a hoax. I'm going to call on my defense attorney @Dabawss to provide memes that prove my point.

 
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