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Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha
Communism also utilizes monopolies to maximize tax money. Thus leaving the market with the most inefficient allocation of resources. There is actually no advancement in technology, and communism actually does work for short periods of time, but everyone becomes poor due to the government monopolies and no new technology is created so they eventually begin to lose their export market to countries that have more advanced products.
Besides, economists have never run their own communist country, nor would they try, so you don't know whether or not they would succeed.
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Their is no 'tax' in a socialist society, tax implies wage-labor and the capitalist state confiscating a part of the productive labor of workers (that little portion of their labor value which they receive as a wage). In socialist society everyone has access to the full product of their labor.
You might ask: But how is that possible? Why would someone individually want to have all they produce? Society wouldn't function if that happened.
Well of course that is correct, which is why socialist society is based on need, a worker who produces 10 pairs of shoes or example certainly doesn't need all 10 pairs to live comfortably, yes? He would keep a few pairs for himself, and make whatever the rest of what he produces available to the community. Now you might say, what is the incentive for that shoe-maker to make his shoes available to the community, well in return the rest of the community would make all it's products available to him. It's a mutual arrangement between every individual producer and every other individual, so it works in specific relationships individually (between the shoemaker who wants a hat and the hat maker who wants shoes), and collectively.
Current barter economics distort true value of labor, while removing this distorting barrier socialism lets every individual producer have access to the products of his own labor individually and other of everyone else collectively. Socialism is the ultimate combination of personal and collective interests and the only way for workers to have freedom over their labor.
The only role for a 'state' or 'government' in a socialist society is to stop individuals selling things, so that every individual has equal access to the products of modern society.
Thus in socialism the 'economy' only has one real block in the way of satisfying the people, and that's the block all human society on this earth has, and that's resource scarcity and the limits of industrial society - ALL other limits are artificial. Capitalism and wage-labor are artificial limits on the capacity of human labor to make the lives of everyone better. Resource allocation is the key, in the world today their is far enough industrial productive power for EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING TO LIVE COMFORTABLY, but they do not because of capitalism.