RAF,
Roger, roger, as we say in radio.
I'm on an 80-meter net at present, in a group of some 25 other stations.
I really think Communism has no future -- nor past -- on these salty shores!
Too work-intensive, meaning the Meetings! ;-)
Of COURSE Communism is a tyranny. Only way it can get a leg-up.
When we look at "governments", let's all *always* ask ourselves the question:
"WHO _*DECIDES*_?"
Let that be my epitaph. ;-)
w/ Cheers, and wishes for
Good health, Brothers/Sisters,
--Joe
(I say "Brothers/Sisters as a Buddhist, not a Commie)
> R A Fonda <rafonda@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
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