To save the poll from influence, I will spare my opinion for the time being.
So, is communism possible in the USA?
If you go back to, say, 1 million BC, you would have found that everything was free - you just needed to access it.
dunno 'bout you I'd rather not go back to, say, 1 million BC we had only just begun walking uprightIf you go back to, say, 1 million BC, you would have found that everything was free
Envy and Power-Lust? No. Collectivism is about selflessness by definition. That's like saying, "We shouldn't teach kids to share, that'll lead to envy and power-lust." What is so uncivilized about sharing?
Only the rich acknowledge it. It's a war the left is hell-bent on waging. Class-envy is a terrible thing, but it's human nature. People see what they don't have and they want it. They don't see what it took to get it and most sure as HELL don't care about doing what it takes to get it, but they still want the reward. That's why we have police and court systems and prisons. Without them, many of the have-nots that lack the work ethic to achieve the rewards they wish themselves also lack the decency not to act on their baser impulses. The prisons are full of people that fail to follow such rules and are unable to resist the temptation to steal what they want instead of working for it like everyone else.
communism is a great system, if applied to relatively small population groups of like-minded individuals. The problem comes in when you try to apply it to a society comprised of hundreds of millions of people.
This is not a free country, to start a business you have to be an "accredited investor".
It is basically just a financial threshold. For individual investors, you need a net worth of $1 million (alone or with spouse) OR annual income of $200,000 (or $300,000 in joint income with spouse) in the two most recent years, with an expectation that you will continue to earn that this year.
Most people don't have that kind of money.
To save the poll from influence, I will spare my opinion for the time being.
So,is communism possible in the USA?
A lot of thing are 'possible' in the USA.
But most of them will never happen.
Communism is one of the things that will likely never happen.
Who is going to vote it into power?
Think about it.
Why worry or even think about something so unlikely?
If the Constitution is not upheld at all then anything is possible, but I think that it would be more likely that a Fascist Regime would be more probable than a Communist one.
A lot of thing are 'possible' in the USA.
But most of them will never happen.
Communism is one of the things that will likely never happen.
A lot of thing are 'possible' in the USA.
But most of them will never happen.
Communism is one of the things that will likely never happen.
Who is going to vote it into power?
Think about it.
Why worry or even think about something so unlikely?
EVERYTHING was free. Including your neighbor's stuff. All you needed was access to it, which might have meant killing him or his whole tribe. Consider water resources, like rivers and streams. What if I want to farm on it? What's that? YOU want to farm right here? Well how do we solve this dispute? Fine, you stay here, and I'll move up river... and then dam the river to divert the flow of water to my brother over there. What? You didn't like that either? Well then, what do we do about it? Have laws? And people who enforce them? But then, how will they eat if they're out enforcing the laws and not farming? What? We give them a little bit of our food so they can spend their time making sure I'm not messing with you?
And so on. Property rights are what separate us from the beasts.... especially those having to do with land and natural resource exploitation.
Communists are amost never "voted into power". But I agree a Communist takeover in the US is very unlikely.
And the point of going back to early property was to point out that private property isn't natural - it, in all it's wickedness, is a human institution. It was created by rulers, and should be abolished by subjects.
They try to use political correctness to change the labels but reality is indeed a stubborn mistress.That's why they call themselves "progressives". If they called themselves "Communists" they know they'd never get elected.
It was a natural consequence of society. Without private property, we would all be killing each other over physical position - space - and who gets to occupy it.
Tell me, what happens when a collective farm just so happens to be next to a river that a power plant "needs" to be on? Which family gets the boot? Which farm gets demolished to make way for "progress"? How is this solved without private property rules? Or take a mine, for example. A person wants to dig gold out of the ground in a particular place, and someone else wants to do the same thing on the same spot. How do you resolve this conflict?
No but Hitler wasCommunists are almost never "voted into power".
Communists are amost never "voted into power". But I agree a Communist takeover in the US is very unlikely.
What? To your first example, the farm gets precedence, because it owns that plot of land. And what do you mean by "which"? There's only one farm. To your second: the previous owner sells it to whomever of the two they choose.
A group owning a firm doesn't change the fact that land is (often) owned.