I have noticed a couple of posters here who are openly Communist. I have no problem with that. This is America, and ALL views should be heard. However, I have a question for them.

Actually, I like the idea of Communism....... In small groups, where ALL have agreed to share the wealth. This is the logic behind the running of a kibbutz in Israel. And for a household, or small community, Communism is not a bad thing. However, when you apply Communism on a larger scale, say, a state, or a nation, the logic of Communism breaks down. On larger scales, you are forcing those who dont want to share their wealth to share it. As the Soviet system showed, that could not be done without a massive police presence, and individual rights were severely restricted. And, in the process, as the state took over the management of Russia's production, you had essentially the merger of the state with corporate power, since the corporations became part of the state. The merger of corporate power with the state is the definition of Fascism. The abuses of power that you see in Communist nations are exactly the same abuses you see in Fascist states. In the end, there is no difference. When George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, he was writing it as a condemnation of Communism. The sentence that ends the book tells it all. It says that humans and pigs were sitting around a table and nobody could tell which was human and which was pig.

In the end, Communism works on very small scales, but utterly fails and becomes Fascism when people attempt to run nations with it.