| I might as well open the subject as an official topic, so we can debate it in one place instead of waiting for Adams to bring the subject up, on dozens of topics. (lol)
These are the most moderate list of rules for Communism that I could find. Feel free to make suggestions:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to the public.
2. Heavy progressive income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralizing of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with a state capital.
6. Centralizing of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
7. Factories and production owned by the state and cultivation of wastelands.
8. Equal liability of all labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combining agriculture and manufacturing industries; abolition of distinction between town and country by a more equal distribution of the population.
10. Free education for all children in public schools.
Now the prevailing concepts of labor are those of capitalism and socialism. I suppose I will stick to the form of using socailism economicly and Communism in ideology. Socialism judges the value of labor as being worth the amount of effort put into it, regardless of the usefulness of the product. Capitalism allows the market to set the value of labor, what the group is willing to work for determines the pay for the individual in that field of labor. While leaving the price of the item up to what the consumer is willing to pay.
In an ideal society were everyone was honest, and demanded to pay what a product was worth to them, either system would work, or even no system at all. So it really comes do to which system has the grossest failures. I will try to exaggerate the problems with both systems in equal measure. (lol)
Industry and Economics:
Capitalist problems tend to be higher level problems. Companies pretending to have a shortage so they can jack up a price and then flood the market at that high selling price, setting up phoney companies that attract investors and then running away with the money, and that sort of thing.
Socialism has the opposite problem. Labor is subjective, unless you pay a second person to keep track of the first worker and a third to watch him... Therefore it is easy for the worker to simply sit around and do nothing and simply claim he is an idiot, since being totally incompetent does not affect your pay. Then, of course, there are many things that people will simply stop making because the labor required to make them is not worth the price, and researching another process is not something that socialism does...
Enough to start with I hope... |