I'm a bit too tipsy right now to give your questions the answers they deserve..or
maybe its the other way around and I'm so
tipsy that I may give you exactly the answer that statement deserves hee hee....
But at any rate, I don't see having to pay taxes as someone STEALING anything from you.
I'm also certainly not 'outside' capitalism, since my place in Trinidad society would
be one of the Comfortably Middle Class,
and thus I know all too well the benefits of capitalism and wealth, and more so the
striving for more wealth in one's
personal and professional life.
Also, with regards to Communism I believe I stated that it sounded good on paper, but
fell apart in practice. You agreed with
this when you wrote "despite all claims to the counter", recognising that this was not
how it was supposed to be, and not
what was stated.
This is the core of communism, on paper:
"Above all, it will have to take the control of industry and of all branches of
production out of the hands of mutually
competing individuals, and instead institute a system in which all these branches of
production are operated by society as a
whole -- that is, for the common account, according to a common plan, and with the
participation of all members of society.
It will, in other words, abolish competition and replace it with association.
Moreover, since the management of industry by individuals necessarily implies private
property, and since competition is in
reality merely the manner and form in which the control of industry by private
property owners expresses itself, it follows
that private property cannot be separated from competition and the individual
management of industry. Private property must,
therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all
instruments of production and the
distribution of all products according to common agreement -- in a word, what is
called the communal ownership of goods.
In fact, the abolition of private property is, doubtless, the shortest and most
significant way to characterize the
revolution in the whole social order which has been made necessary by the development
of industry -- and for this reason it
is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand."
I'm not an American, so I really couldn't care about your long struggle against those
in Russia etc. etc. as some example
that all communists are wicked, evil creatures who should be bombed to hell and back.
*shrug*.
I see admirable things in the Chinese society, the only surviving ruling communist
regime that impacts the world at a global
level.It is a completel different culture indeed, but as with everything else there
are things to admire, and things to be
learned from such a culture, qualities that those in the 'west' can do well to emulate.
And no I'm not talking about the restrictions to freedom, and the human rights
violations that the Western media constantly
promotes and pushes as though this is the be all and end all of Chinese Culture.
To me Communism is a failed political system, which sought to provide for all the
people in society according to some common
good and common goal. The result of this..of course, was Dictatorship, putting control
of the nation not in the hands of the
people as originally stated, but in the hands of a very few in government. And with
dictatorship if those in power are wicked
and self centered, the result will be wicked and self centered.And hence Communism
failed in practice to provide equally for
society as a whole.
Just as Communism sounded ok on paper, so does Libertarianism...and just as Communism
failed in practice becoming something
that was totally reprehensible, so too would Libertarianism.
I'll answer the rest directly tomorrow after I've slept these boddingtons off.
-Gle
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