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On 18/6/25 3:44, Paul Ragna wrote:
Most political philosophies work better as theories than in practice.
Take communism, for example: If you’re struggling under a different political model, communism has some truly splendid talking points, and
if you think otherwise, you’ve lost the plot. There’s a reason why it’s still so appealing to millions of revolutionaries.
The problem, of course, is that communism is utterly dysfunctional in
the real world. By many metrics, it’s the most destructive political
system in history. But despite its (considerable) track record of death, destruction, and devastation, its popularity continues. No matter how
many times it crashes and burns — no matter how many times communism promises Valhalla yet delivers Pyongyang — there’s always a new generation of Marxist sheep ready to bleat on command.
This is because True Communism has not been tried.
Communism works okay in the small. Jamestown used some
communistish principles trying not to starve to death. Russian
peasants were developing communisticish farming.
Communism in the large is started by idealistic city born
youngsters who have no idea how farms and factories actually
work. They decided peasants were doing communism wrong. They knew
better and did not care how many peasants starved while the
revolutionaries proved how to do communism.
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