An Evening on the Fireside with David 49
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about capitalism versus Communism. This week, I'm adding a little bit to it. Here it is \/
a classless society or not. They are capable of living in luxury, and most people will choose some manner of personal comfort. *Cough* Lord Acton *cough* Absolute power *cough*. .People who typically fight and are successful in gaining power are typically not sheep and angels.
Someone else mentioned about a stable country being able to produce a stable communism. I’ve got to call bushwashy on that. .Stability is driven from the lack of a power vacuum. So any change from a class system of capitalism to a classless communism to be to a façade. .Those in power wouldn’t give up power. A revolt wouldn’t happen in a stable country, so that’s the only way the transition could be made. Losing green pieces of paper doesn’t completely strip very powerful people of the affluence.
Also, if we strip the market of being able to determine the best course of action for our goods, then we have to give that power to a small group of people. I just don’t see how on extremely large scales this would be very effective. To some extent it is more viable in a country like China, but that is because they have a very homogenized population. That is not the case for the USA. Hell, we barely stay above anarchy through the use of states. Imagine if D.C. decided on a blanket decision on gay marriage. Look at the protesting and outrage that came from one state (California) banning it.
With as much ethnic, religious, and ideology diversity that exists, not letting the truest form of the people decide (the free market), I just don’t see how a society could thrive.
I think this is good for now.
This is an amendment to
Really, the reason why I chose this as this week’s Evening is because Guy 1 ended the conversation with something along the lines of Materialism is stripping us of our humanity..
To put it another way, Materialism causes an erosion of our humanity.
As sad as it may be, Our humanity leads to the effect of materialism.
This is a point I never got to steer the conversation to this direction, but I will close the week out with a short comment on it.
What is our humanity? I would imagine it is what separates humans from animals. Typically this is known as free will. Hmm, where was I going to go with this?
Meh, it’s getting too late. Basically, materialism is exclusively human, thus an aspect of humanity, not a dissolver of it.
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