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Quote by: Objectivist  Communism overlooks the fact that individuals are the source of everything good in this world. There is no such thing as a collective brain or a collective body. Another person cannot think for you. Another person cannot live for you. But that is what communism tries to accomplish.
Communism doesn't work because it is in conflict with reality. |
Yet would people from an eastern upbringing view that as a negative?
When raised in a non linear end result way of thinking the actions of the individual can seem of less importance that the whole group. A society can take on more worth than any single unit within it.
Even the view that individuals produce the results can be seen as the society they live in educates them and allows them to achieve things.
Communism only comes into conflict when it runs into those raised in the belief that the single individual is the greatest unit of existence.
To those of us in the west I think this seems alien because we have a more self centered society. We desire a form of government that allows us to express our own ideals and not be forced to go along with the flow.