On 12/12/2012 8:00 PM, Joe wrote:
Communism will never catch on in USA
I hope you are right, not that I am a fan of the status quo or think /it/ can prevent collapse of the over-populated technostate. I just see a communist tyranny as another burden of misery that people don't need to impose on themselves.
Currency debasement is the last resort of failed (or stealthy) revenue-enhancers. It's a-happening.
Perceptive; and it is a stealth tax on the working people and middle class: the rich can actually profit by it, through shrewd investments, and the poor will be partially protected by benefit indexing.
there is no "confiscation". ... the State owns the means of Production, and the workers receive the proper portion of the fruits which the Planners (Dictator and Committee) can apportion
Point taken, but it is still tyranny, and there has to be one great orgy of confiscation to initiate it all, taking land and other assets from those who start out owning it/them. Nor do the workers do so well; remember, "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us"? And everyone ends up poverty stricken, except the party bosses and their cronies. I think envy will entice people to support it, and eventually widespread hunger and destitution will drive people to what seems the rational allocation of diminishing resources. When I interact with people who think it is a great idea I find myself thinking that they deserve to experience it, so I suppose it will be 'good enough for who its for'. As I said before: nothing I can do about it, for or against, and nothing I /need/ to do.
I'll be /gate gate, paragate, parasamgate/ by then anyway.
