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RReagan · #1 (**permalink**) 06-13-2007, 04:43 PM

My problems with communsim are extensive. I was recently asked what I had against communism. I realized that I have not worked hard enough to become THE anti-communist here. So I would like to make it clear why I hate commies and encourage some civilized debate. I can't promise I will be too awfully friendly, but I will TRY to be civilized.

The Problems with Communism:
I realize there are some holes in it.

I. State Control of the Economy

The government must control the systems of production. That is an essential element of Communism. There are a huge number of problems with this. Problem number one is that the government will become overburdened. The government will be forced to raise taxes enormously to increase its growing size. This is in defiance of the communist prinicple of helping the people. It will take all of the people’s money. Also, when a state controls the economy, there is no competition among businesses, which encourages lower prices and higher quality. Also, a small group of people that decide what can and can’t be sold can make mistakes. How would they know what the people want? When they say that more cheese should be sold over bread, how are they sure that the people need more cheese? If they don’t, that means that there is a ton of cheese being produced that no one needs, while needed bread is growing smaller in number.

II. State Control of the People and lack of Democracy

Communism has little support of democracy, and views it only as a stepping stone to Socialism. There are also a number of problems with this. This defys a humans natural need to choose. If humanity had not needed to choose, why could we? And the fact that the people can not have a say is the one thing that will destroy a communist country (it is ironic that this is the same way it came about): revolution. People can not voice their dissatisfaction with a regime, cannot do anything about it except revolt against it. Democracy also will alow the people to make the coice of how they want to be ruled. It is the humane thing to do, allow people to chosse how they want to be ruled, not to have an unwanted regime forced on them.

III. Utopia: Not possible

Communism attempts to create a utopia, by elimination of classes. This is a completely ridiculous idea. The very idea of a utopia is ridiculous. If people are given power, there is going to be corruption. This is an unfortunate, but realistic, aspect of politics. And that corrupiton is going to destroy the idea of a whitehouse. And anyone given as much power as a communist dictator is going to abuse that power. Abusing that power is going to lead to abuse of the people; thereby, the destruction of a utopia. And if a leader gets into power and manages to put a country on the path towards a utopia, there will be a leader who will eventually bring it off of that path.

IV. Dictatoship of the Proletairiant

The idea of giving an entire group of people power over another, regardless of the ratio, is complealty ridiculous. I support rule of majority over minority, but not compleate control. This is basically saying that capitalists are a completely different species which must be wiped out; they are humans too. The peasents and workers are just as corruptible as capitalists. I would like to use the Cultural Revolution as an example. The red guards, as the proletairiant, were given compleate dictatorship over the capitalists. This led to the ruining of thousands of lives, many innocent, and killed millions. It completely destroyed China for a very long time. Any group of people given unchecked power over another group, no matter the ratio, is not ever a good idea.