10 Reasons Why Communism Sucks

[INDIC]

What enjoyment?

You seem to have very jaundiced view of development. The problem with Koreans is that it worships whites, and by worshiping i means worshiping literally. This may not look problematic at first but the effect it has on Korean society is immense. Koreans are heavily into Plastic surgery, and not the one of harmless Botox injection type but serious surgeries like Lazrov limb lengthening procedure, just in order to look like caucasians.

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This is just tip of the iceberg. Their cultural meters, idols, and role model try to ape west ( specifically US ) in toto. Actually it is comical when a Korean tries to act more white than white.

It is a culture which may never be at peace with itself as it see itself as inferior and need acceptance of outsiders for having a self identity, Irrespective of how much money it has.

@Nihonjin1051 could shed more light on this matter.

I never knew these things.

 

[Steve781]

China and Eastern Europe did develop under Communism. Obviously in 1989 living standards in Eastern Europe were a lot lower than in Western Europe but they were a lot higher than they had been forty years earlier. China had also massively reduced poverty by the time Mao died.

 

[JanjaWeed]

10. It Doesn’t Value Creativity





The average person, as George Carlin once observed, is not particularly good at anything. The perfect job for such a person is on the assembly line. But regardless of the governments under which we live, we all have different aspirations. Some people are perfectly happy sweeping floors, but most of us—justly—want more out of life. Not only money, but fame, glory, and a sense of accomplishment. All of these require at least some creative thought.

You may want to be a poet or a painter, but these jobs certainly don’t pay the bills—and Communism views them as unnecessary and ridiculous. All that matters is building a super-powerful nation—and one of the first obstacles that must be removed is what Jefferson called “the pursuit of happiness.”




9. Forced Collectivization





The most notorious example of forced collectivization is the land reform carried out by Soviets between 1928 and 1933. It was thought that collectivization would maximize the use and potential of the countryside for urban and industrial needs. Russian industry was just taking off, and enormous quantities of food would be required for the workers.



Masses of resisting landowners—many of them small-scale farmers who worked their own land—died at the hands of executioners. The state’s requisition of crops, livestock, and farmland was paid for by the farmers and by the lower class in general, some ten million of whom starved to death in five years.



Exactly the same atrocity took place in Communist China, between 1958 and 1961. During this time, private farming was outlawed as it had been in Stalin’s Russia, and about 33 million people starved to death in possibly thesingle most destructive famine in human history.



8. You Have No Rights


Several of these entries are related, and the absence of citizens’ rights is at the heart of more than one. In keeping with the last entry, Marx advocatedten rules in his Communist Manifesto for the forced redistribution of all land and property for the good of the national community.



This is theft, from the citizens’ point of view. They are forced to join the new Communist government—whether they like it or not. This, of course, must be done with a “might is right” frame of mind: lots of men with guns show up and take everything you have “for the glory of the motherland,” as the Soviets might have said.



7. Reduced Incentives to Work Hard





Incentives—such as higher pay for doctors—are necessary to give people the energy they need to work hard in a difficult job.



When there are no extra incentives available—such as in a Communist state, where all reap an equal share in what some have worked harder to sow—the people in difficult jobs quickly lose their motivation. For example, workers would stop caring about how thoroughly they inspect the cars on the assembly lines, since it makes no difference to them either way. They are also likely to grow bitter at the government for failing to give them recognition when they do a good job. Revolts become a distinct liability; many a Communist state has fallen because of this problem of reduced incentives.



6. Militant Opposition to Imperialism





It doesn’t take much to bring the fury of a Communist state upon you; in fact, it takes nothing more than simply existing in a capitalist state. The Communist Manifesto advocates the replacement of all governments by Communist governments. This has almost always been put into effect internally: the Russian monarchy was overthrown, as were the Republic of China and the Cuban democracy.



But the threat is not merely internal. The US need not fear a Cuban invasion, but China is indeed a force to be reckoned with. It controls the second-largest portion of American debt, and though that only amounts to about eight percent, the number is rising. Should they ever call in America’s entire debt to them at once, America’s already depressed economy would be greatly harmed.


5. Indifference Towards the Environment





A Communist state will make up for its inefficient economy by doing whatever is necessary to produce crops and water. In the 1960s, the Soviet Communist regime diverted two important rivers for irrigation. The Aral Sea, which those rivers fed, has now shrunk to as little as ten percent of its original size. It used to be the fourth largest lake in the world.

The lesson: rather than letting the efficiency of capitalism into its economic model, the Soviet government chose to extract everything it could from the environment—without caring one bit about the health of that environment.

4. The Economic Calculation Problem



The relative success of the free market economy is a real-world refutation of Marxist economics. The latter never has sufficient information on the market prices of commodities, and therefore cannot properly ration the distribution of a nation’s resources.

The only reasonable criticism of the free market economy is the presence of monopolies, which can raise the prices of their products with little fear of reprisal. But monopolies are just like the central control a Communist government exercises on its whole economy; a true free market ensures that there be checks and balances on the price of goods and services.



3. The Class Struggle’s Going Nowhere


Marx founded Communist philosophy on the principle that class struggles have been, by far, the primary cause of all strife, wars, economic woes, and regime collapses. There are popularly thought to be three major classes of people: the upper, the middle, and the lower. The upper class has most of the wealth; the lower class the least; and the middle class plays the peacemaker between them, maintaining the hope and sanity of the lower class. Without the middle class, heads are chopped.



Communism itself does not erase the class struggle, as it proclaims, butkeeps it going. It does this because it is a government: there must be a group of people in charge, and it’s likely that this group enjoys its power. By maintaining their power, the leaders of a Communist state separate the population into at least two classes: themselves as the upper class, and preferably everyone else in the lower class.

Communist states have generally not featured a middle class—and its absence allowed for the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; the Chinese of 1949, the Cuban of 1953-59, and a host of others. All of these revolutions ended with the rise of a Communist state—and all of them were the ruin of their respective nations, because the Communists themselves became the very same brand of elitist upper class they had deposed.



2. Mass Murders


Communist rule may be directly blamed for the deaths of at least eighty-five million people in the twentieth century. Stalin alone murdered about twenty million, although other estimates range from fifty-three million to eighty million.

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia, and set out to establish a Communist utopia. They immediately committed genocide on their own people. At least two million were executed by brutally primitive methods in keeping with the Khmer Rouge’s anti-technology stance; many of the victims were murdered merely for wearing glasses. Intelligence was deemed a direct and serious threat to the Khmer Rouge.



And let’s not forget Chairman Mao. He may not have been as evil as Stalin, but he was the very definition of indifference towards humanity. His “Great Leap Forward” caused the deaths by starvation of forty-five million Chinese civilians.



1. Karl Marx Was Wrong to Begin With


Marx’s doctrine is fraught with faulty logic, loopholes, and unsolved problems. His idea of economics is based on the labor theory of value, which asserts that a car, for example, should cost more than a TV, because more labor is needed to produce it. But this is an oversimplification of the market.

Sam’s Choice Cola tastes almost identical to Coca-Cola, but costs half as much. The labor is the same, but people are happy to pay twice as much for the only difference: the brand name. The same holds true with medicine.



In the same way, tennis shoes can cost over $200 in the US, despite being made in China or Taiwan for only about $3–10. Why do they cost so much? Because the industries that own them sell them based on how highly they are in demand by the public. That’s why they have athletes endorse their products: to make them more desirable to the athletes’ fans.

This is expressly why Marxist Communism has caused the utter collapse of so many national economies: it thinks in broad strokes, and fails to tell one subtlety from another. This, first and foremost, is because Communism is not grounded in reality.

10 Reasons Why Communism Sucks - Listverse

@DRAY @INDIC @jamahir @SarthakGanguly @Jaat Rock @Chinese-Dragon @he-man @Luca 1

wow.. sounds like this article is based entirely on the basis of Communism practised by N. Korea. There have been socialist form of governance in other parts of the world too.. & this ideology still prevails in China & in few central American countries...but you can not allude all the above ten traits to any of these countries.. But in North Korea's case.. Yes, 10/10 & even worse!

 

[Neptune]

Communism is Russian. Vodka is Russian. Vodka is awsome so isn't communism to be awsome?

 

[jamahir]

10. It Doesn’t Value Creativity

1. yuri gagarin from communist soviet union was launched into space in 1961... capitalist indian establishment is destined never to launch one person by itself... better is for indian government to book tickets on the spacex company's dragon v2 space capsule, and lease a inflatable space station from bigelow aerospace.

1a. spacex is not the typical western capitalist company that exists to make money from useless things... in fact, elon musk does not have a "business model" for his plans for mars settlement... he has not floated spacex on the new york stock exchange.

1b. the western nations have seen popular protests against capitalism... the "occupy" movements in the anglo nations and direct-action in southern europe.

1c. just a few days ago, when the prime minister of present capitalist india, narendra modi, was on his tour of wall street ( new york ), in the same area were a few hundred "occupy" protestors... oh, the irony...

2. north korea has fine artists whose more prominent paintings are political in nature, but quite beautiful.

3. below is visit by the famous "syrian girl" to a unique war museum in damascus ( syria )... it was built by north korea and commemorates the 1973 syria/egypt war against israel...

@Syrian Lion have you visited this museum??

4. i myself am involved with a few others in design of a microprocessor which is quite unique... out of the three million indian it industry employees, have come how many microprocessors?

5. western microprocessor design has been influenced by the soviet elbrus microprocessor design.

6. there have been many fine films made and promoted in the soviet union... solaris, you will know... then "the stalker", despite it having a metaphysical theme.

9. Forced Collectivization

the one who produces, can consume... that is one of the socialist credos... it is fair and natural.

why should humanity tolerate parasites like priests, stock brokers, money lenders, astrologers etc

no human can own any natural resource like land and water... nor can anyone own food crop... it is natural for socialism to expect the citizens to contribute to helping grow food.

fine, in most socialist societies until now, the collectivization has not be complete... it shall be so in a near-future true communist society... money being removed will remove need for citizens to "earn a livelihood"... they will have "free everything"... therefore, it will be expected of them to contribute some hours per day to public work in a scientific society that has given them every facility... the remaining hours they do things of their interest ( as long as it is within bounds of socialism ).

8. You Have No Rights

wrong... you have rights to free water, free electricity, free housing, free medical system, free agricultural land ( in libya ), 20,000 dollars investment into your business idea ( in libya ), 60,000 dollars to a couple on wedding day ( in libya ), 1000 dollars every month to unemployed people ( in libya ), 5000 dollars for a child being born ( in libya ), justice, full rights to ladies, no homeless-ness...

in capitalist usa... ( Woman working 4 jobs to make ends meet dies while napping in car between shifts — RT USA ).

in capitalist india, 69 people died of hunger two months ago in the tea estates of darjeeling... people in india have to sell their kidney... we had a recent thread on the delhi "honor killing" case... today we have a thread on another "honor killing" case in india... rights, you say...

7. Reduced Incentives to Work Hard

what does "work hard" mean in capitalist societies?? wage-slavery?? to build a house in india, people take loans from banks, on interest... they spend the next twenty years in jobs ( wage-slavery ), trying to repay the bank loan... unable to contribute to humanity... capitalist india is now "suicide capital of the world"... congrats.

people who think of wage-slavery ( jobs ) as "work" are utter fools and should be eradicated... such people are slaves of money... they remain poor and transfer their poverty to their children... what is the wealth of the typical job-class person in capitalist india??

fool is he who thinks money system should continue... wake up, for this is 2014 ad and not 800 bc.

in a true communist society, contribution to humanity and satisfying one's own creativity and curiosity should be the only incentives to work... that is real work... "one who produces, can consume".

6. Militant Opposition to Imperialism

what does the article writer want?? slaves of capitalist usa government?? any person of true responsible nature will wage opposition to capitalism, by any means, big or small, local or global.

5. Indifference Towards the Environment

libyan jamahiriya has history's largest water supply project... the "great man-made river" project... meant to deliver water from under libya's desert to all cities in libya.

in india, the smaller cats are almost extinct... as are leopards.

usa military introduced cancers into iraqi population through depleted-uranium shells... google the pictures and vomit.

4. The Economic Calculation Problem

why should you do wage-slavery just to survive from month to month...

economics comes from money... true communism, when realized, will not have money system... all will be for free... so, no economics... problem solved.

3. The Class Struggle’s Going Nowhere

on what basis was that statement written??

2017 will bring the hundredth anniversary of the bolshevik revolution in russia... and jamahiriya direct-democracy removed the barriers of "class" in making decisions for the common interest of the masses.

everyone must participate in politics... there should be no money... these two things will remove the two things sustaining class oppression... (a). a political class that has monopoly over social power, (b). a wealth class that sustains the corrupt political class.

2. Mass Murders

mass murders carried out by capitalist western governments and puppets...

four million north korean citizens, 1950-53
two million iraqis, 1990-2007
200,000+ libyans, 2011-13
150,000+ syrians, 2011-13
afghans, 1978-1991
somalis, 1991
columbians
palestinians
many others

1. Karl Marx Was Wrong to Begin With

nonsense.

socialism and the ideal of the communist society are the automatic belief of any person with kindness for humanity... how can anyone stand silent when others suffer?? how can a single human race be allowed to have so many un-natural divisions??

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i have tried to respect what was essentiall a troll thread... i did my duty... now the readers must read these below posts of mine and state their objections or agreements...

1. The Worldwide Government | Page 3

2. proposal for a new division of south asia | Page 10

 

[Keel]

Fake democracy like India suck the biggest of all time!

China is not pure communism

India is not a true democracy

China wins hands down!



Going into 21st century, India still has a very long list of the worst social indices of the world.

One of those in the list is over 2 million small kids die of hunger or diseases in India each year as reported here

"The UN estimates that 2.1 million Indian children die before reaching the age of 5 every year –four every minute - mostly from preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea, typhoid, malaria, measles and pneumonia. Every day, 1,000 Indian children die because of diarrhoea alone."

India - Nutrition, Malnutrition - Diarrhoea - Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition & Malnutrition - Feeding practices including micronutrient deficiencies prevention, control of wasting, stunting and underweight

The report did not include the statistics of other age groups in India. Perhaps the UN wanted Indians or other people who are interested to figure it out themselves

Do the above figure amount to Mass Murder by democratic India?
( Note: sadly Kashmir Mass Graves are not included )

How many years have past since India declared independence?

 

[INDIC]

Fake democracy like India suck the biggest of all time!

China is not pure communism

India is not a true democracy

China wins hands down!



Going into 21st century, India still has a very long list of the worst social indices of the world.

One of those in the list is over 2 million small kids die of hunger or diseases in India each year as reported here

The UN estimates that 2.1 million Indian children die before reaching the age of 5 every year –four every minute - mostly from preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea, typhoid, malaria, measles and pneumonia. Every day, 1,000 Indian children die because of diarrhoea alone.

India - Nutrition, Malnutrition - Diarrhoea - Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition & Malnutrition - Feeding practices including micronutrient deficiencies prevention, control of wasting, stunting and underweight

The report did not include the statistics of other age groups in India. Perhaps the UN wanted Indians or other people who are interested to figure it out themselves

Do the above figure amount to Mass Murder by democratic India?

How many years have past since India declared independence?

In communism all such problems can be solved by just one thing, "censoring".

 

[Keel]

In communism all such problems can be solved by just one thing, "censoring".

That is a no brainer reply
so called democratic societies also have their own version of censorship

In spite of your accusation, China thrives on innovation.
It's Official: China Is Becoming a New Innovation Powerhouse

We are running one of the best and most advanced railway systems in the world
High-Speed Empire

We are technologically getting much more advanced
China: the new tech superpower | pcpro

Where is democratic India?

 

[Yogijaat]

Fake democracy like India suck the biggest of all time!

China is not pure communism

India is not a true democracy

China wins hands down!



Going into 21st century, India still has a very long list of the worst social indices of the world.

One of those in the list is over 2 million small kids die of hunger or diseases in India each year as reported here

"The UN estimates that 2.1 million Indian children die before reaching the age of 5 every year –four every minute - mostly from preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea, typhoid, malaria, measles and pneumonia. Every day, 1,000 Indian children die because of diarrhoea alone."

India - Nutrition, Malnutrition - Diarrhoea - Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition & Malnutrition - Feeding practices including micronutrient deficiencies prevention, control of wasting, stunting and underweight

The report did not include the statistics of other age groups in India. Perhaps the UN wanted Indians or other people who are interested to figure it out themselves

Do the above figure amount to Mass Murder by democratic India?

How many years have past since India declared independence?

communist china have 12.7 million malnourished children.
In China, there are an estimated 12.7 million stunted children, a population the size of Tokyo. In poor rural communities in China’s central and western provinces, one out of 10 children under 5 is stunted.
UNICEF EAPRO - Media centre - Fighting rural child malnutrition in China I UNICEF East Asia Pacific I UNICEF East Asia Pacific

 

[Keel]

communist china have 12.7 million malnourished children.
In China, there are an estimated 12.7 million stunted children, a population the size of Tokyo. In poor rural communities in China’s central and western provinces, one out of 10 children under 5 is stunted.
UNICEF EAPRO - Media centre - Fighting rural child malnutrition in China I UNICEF East Asia Pacific I UNICEF East Asia Pacific

Our kids aged under 18 may be malnutritious but not anything near as horrible as India where they are literally famished to die before 5. Go figure out your horrible gruesome state in India.

 

[INDIC]

That is a no brainer reply
so called democratic societies also have their own version of censorship

In spite of your accusation, China thrives on innovation.
It's Official: China Is Becoming a New Innovation Powerhouse

We are running one of the best and most advanced railway systems in the world
High-Speed Empire

We are technologically getting much more advanced
China: the new tech superpower | pcpro

Where is democratic India?

You can show a communist country in good light by censoring the bad thing. BTW I heard your HSR is making heavy losses but its being expanded to meet GDP growth target.

 

[Keel]

You can show a communist country in good light by censoring the bad thing. BTW I heard your HSR is making heavy losses but its being expanded to meet GDP growth target.

We dont mind the losses in some lines at the moment as long as our "Communists" government is subsidying us for a quality life.

While in "democratic" India over a hundred thousand tons of "night soil" are dumped daily along your railway tracks

Loo Stink: Will railways manage to install discharge free toilets? - The Economic Times

 

[Yogijaat]

Our kids aged under 18 may be malnutritious but not anything near as horrible as India where they are literally famished to die before 5.

coming from a chinese with 130 million malnourished chinese

 

[Yogijaat]

We dont mind the losses in some lanes at the moment as long as our "Communists" government is subsidying us for a quality life.

While in "democratic" India tens of thousands tons of "night soil" are dumped daily along your railway tracks

Loo Stink: Will railways manage to install discharge free toilets? - The Economic Times

you are showing trait number 3.
Remember not all chinese are rich.
In China, Rich Population Growth Beats World Average - Forbes

 

[Keel]

coming from a chinese with 130 million malnourished chinese

You so called "democratic" Indians are losing the argument already just by this topic on "malnutritious kids" alone