re: The Structure of Capitalism...

Capitalism has its exploitations and disappointments, but what it ensures to anyone who is resourceful, disciplined, patient, not given to the gratification-now syndrome that they can earn enough to sustain themselves and their families - and even the possibility of "becoming rich."

Communism demands full adherence to oppressive authoritarianism, robs man of his basic desires and aspirations to be self-sufficient and to own property and make it work for him both as an abode and a revenue producer.

Ownership of private property has always been an outrage to the doctrinaire Communist.

Why it took the King Bolshevik Stalin to execute pogroms, fire-bombings and mass starvations to get his country's farmers to accept the collectivization of their farms.

But Communism in itself is a lie, an unworkable attempt at Utopia.

Just about all of its Founders - Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky, Bernstein, Plekhanov - admitted that first, it could only be successful in strong capitalist countries.

Therefore, admitting themselves that it had to co-opt through violence what others have achieved through their resourcefulness and work ethic to make their bloody ideology succeed.

So in effect admitting to the subservience and inferiority of communism to capitalism.

Based solely on the callow expectation that in such advanced, successful capitalist societies there would be more of the discontented and exploited.

That didn't work out as they planned either.

It didn't work among the proletariat whom they so much hoped and depended upon that they would willingly offer themselves as cannon fodder for the Revolution.

Another miscalculation. And it hasn't worked anywhere since.

Am sure you're another one who has somehow convinced himself that you've got the revisionist version of it that will work this time around.

Here's an excerpt from one you'd be proud of - C. Wright Mills a marxist purist - who looked adoringly at Bolshevism, but lamented its failures - which provided even more evidence of the chronic tendency of communism to fail, since Bolshevism was the very essence of Leninist-Marxism:

Much of marxism after Marx is an attempt to explain why the wageworkers of advanced capitalist societies have not generally become proletarianized, much less performed the act of proletarian revolution.

But with bolshevism, this is not the central point, if only because bolshevism as theory is not generally about "advanced capitalist societies" and as practice it does not occur in such societies.

It is about a backward, predominantly agricultural society that is autocratic as well as pre-industrial.

It is also a search for ways to further activate the process of proletarianization, and so the advent of socialism in political ways.

And as a successful revolution, bolshevism became the point upon which all other marxian movements in all nations have had to focus.

All marxists have had to confront it in every way and this is, of course, as we shall see, still the case today.


So what query logically follows?

Why should I or any sentient being opt for an ideology that even its Founders didn't have faith in, even admitting that it is subservient and inferior to the system that upsets it the most.

Rather than capitalism which has brought us the modern conveniences, allowed man to realize his utmost aspirations, has dried more tears than it caused, has even gotten us to other planets.

Aren't you late for your Antifa meeting.

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Commies don't work anyway

What the frick would you know?

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An old friend spent time with some high ranking Russians as the USSR was falling apart. They knew it was coming.

Soviet workers liked to quip, "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work."

If a Russian saw a long line, they would join it not knowing was at the other end, because not matter what it was it was something they needed.

Russian factory managers who wanted small nails would set the quota by the count. If they wanted large nails, they would set it by weight.

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No, I'm an anti-state communist, an anarcho-communist, not in favor of states even existing in the long run.

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The only good communist is a dead communist. Get fricked, pinko.

Nope. Just means you overvalue yourself and/or skills

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Are you saying capitalism has been proven to 'work'? What exactly works about it?

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You sound like someone who grew up in a capitalist country. My wife grew up in a socialist one. Would you care to let her tell you just how wrong you are?

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Capitalism means you get paid less than you're worth and contribute - the rest goes to the bosses. Smash capitalism!!

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Who decides what your labor is worth?

If no one is willing to pay you what you think your labor is worth, what does that tell you?

Thank God capitalism gives people the reality check they need.

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Risking 100% of their personal income that the owner will manage it well and execute well enough to afford paying the employee...

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I'm sure one of our government political bureaucrats could do it better. Government efficiency works so well!

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Nah, don't want to exploit people.

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So in a business where all the workers own the means of production, how do you handle it when one person clearly makes better well informed decisions than every other moron that thought this business model was a great idea?