Communism was hardly "haphazard change, for change's sake alone." Millions of people were completely convinced that it would be a positive influence.
And millions of people were completely and utterly wrong. There is a lesson to be learned there.
The fact that they were mistaken is a very weak case against favoring tradition over change.
A century of abject horror and hundreds of millions dead is a "weak case" for favoring caution over blind leap style "progress?"
You sure about that?
No one ever changes things "for change's sake alone". No one thinks to themselves, "I just support the idea of change, without regard to what we're changing or why". That's a nonsense mantra that privileged people like to toss out in order to further demonize the people they're oppressing by attacking their motives. It's absurd. Again, do you know any actual history, or have you met anyone who wasn't just like you?
Sure they do.
Granted, they'll usually try to dress it up in some form of emotionally resonant garbage or another.
i.e. "This is for justice!" "This is for equality!" "This for human progress and a better tomorrow!" Etca.
Regardless however, the gist of things usually boils down to the fact that a certain idea is "flashy" and "new," which causes hordes of overly idealistic and impressionable people to flock to it against their good sense.
Again, a lot of the time, that turns out poorly.
Keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day it will be true.
Keep your head in the sand. :shrug:
I've already provided several examples where it was true.
Le sigh... Because of course the act of trying to feed everyone is a terrible and horrific idea and anything less than absolute success means that the correct course of action is just to let poor people starve. You have no grasp of the complexities involved in any of this. All you seem to understand is "Commie things bad, America things good".
And here you simply prove my point! :lol:
For the sake of "progress" and overly idealistic "good intentions," they needlessly monkeyed around with something that worked just fine to begin with. In the process of doing so, they created a system which didn't work,
at all, and wound up killing tens of millions of people instead.
Rather than cop to that mistake, the "true believers" doubled down and relied upon force to
make the general population bow to their will, killing yet more people.