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Originally Posted by kicksexoutthevan

to me its very simple- communism and socialism are both systems of government that can only work sucessfully in a "utopian" situation, where no one lies and no one skims off the top but history has shown us time and time again that when you put all the power in the hands of the govt and "trust" them to do the right thing with the money, they never do. They always get greedy and keep some for themselves, leading the a larger gap between the have's and the have nots. Another problem with the communist socialist ethic is in its idea of what the role of government is. To them, the role of the government is to give things to people and to provide everything to its citizens by taxing them to pay for it. This always leads to corruption because the people who collect this money cannot keep themselves from using it in selfish ways. The only way that humans will reach a utopia is VOLUNTARILY. You cannot force a situation on anyone and expect them to love you for it, no matter how many awesome things you give them in return. We must all, as a people, work to create a beautiful, giving, environment around each other by working together and coming up with solutions to our problems, not by bending others to our will through the use of law.

it's not about theft or corruption, which happens everywhere, it's about the stupidity of trying to figure out how many pairs of boots and of what sizes to produce for next winter, and how much leather needs to be ordered, and kept on inventory; and instead of this being coordinated by prices in a market that includes customers, storekeepers, shoemakers, tanners, cattle farmers, hay and suppliers, and makers of laces, and makers of those eyelets where the laces go in, and the materials that go into all them, it's done by some perhaps gifted and idealistic but inevitably doomed to fail bureaucrat in the bowels of some enormous ministry.