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Originally Posted by Catfish
although you chose your own or Rand's ideas of what communism is.
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Neither. The words I dressed it in at this opportnity, have been used many times before, by many others. Churchill for example used someting comparable.
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It is just human nature that socialism and communism have never worked, and always led to dictatorship, poverty and misery.
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Indeed. Any ideology that is set up against the very nature of man, that ignores it, and violates the basic essence of what motivates man, is doomed to fail. One could as well command man to stop breathing in order to control CO2 emmissions. The goal may sound reasonable. But still, it will never work.
And governments will never know what people will want to do the next moment, what their ideas will be, their drives, their real or imagined needs. As complex, if not more, is the action on a free market - billions of decisons anbd motivations and interests and skills and abilktiiues and offerings beeing balanced against each other every day. As if by magic, the market, if left to itself, balances that, and straightens out the ups and lows. But beware of a bureaucratic genius claiming to know it better and being able to forsee what the market needs, and what should be wanted, and for what price! We better kill such a rotten mind immediately, or get our sprinting shoes on and run, run, run as long as we still can, for they are trying to prevent us from escaping their rule.