| Sodfather is totally correct.
Certainly if one needs to make a dispassionate discussion of "governments" socialism and communism should be on the list. After all, one needs to see failure and negative examples before one discusses governments that are viable and WORK!
But, really, what kind of "ass" would imagine that such governments COULD work? They are ENTIRELY against human nature. In fact the sophist, Marx, imagined he could jettison human nature and remake it in the glorious revolution of communism! Absurd. Stupid! And, in the end, murderous.
If one bothers to actually READ Marx's philosophy, as opposed to just looking at his government plans, one sees his desire to destroy the essential truth of human nature and create a "new man". Human nature CANNOT be recreated. It is what it is. It shall NEVER change.
Man is greedy, Selfish, Evil, Dangerous, suspicious, hateful and violent. He is also filled with passion, often kind, frequently joyful and often optimistic. Marx's stupiduty imagines that the negative characteristics of man do not exist and that his positive ones can be redirected from within (self interest) to the state.
When all is said and done the ONLY way Marx's ridiculous ideas can become fact is for the government to grind it's iron boot heel on the necks of the people and to oppress them so bad that their human nature, in fact their very spirit, is destroyed. But, even so, this is an impossible task in the end. |