"If you don't mind, I don't care enough to read some literary dreadnaughts from communist sites who, obviously, are pro-communism and blind to any criticism or flaws in their system, so I'll explain the basic theory."
If you havent read any Marxist writers how are you going to attack it seeing as you dont understand it which is quite obvious. Youre not going to read someone whose pro communist why because you might find out what it really means and have to debate it instead of making empty statements. i just thought Id point out that John Ralston Saul is not a communist his a capitalist just not far right wing ( center ). But seeing your ignorance you didnt know that, you just jump to the oh its must be left wing bias, Im not going to read that I might learn something
I can have more money than other people, but I can't use it to do anything? That's not an incentive
I dont know how many times Ive said this but yes there is incentive to work under communism, but no you cant turn around and exploit someone because you cant change your relationship to the means of production so that extra credit you earn could be spent on consumer goods or service.
under communism, the State controls what is produced, in what quantites and how it is produced etc. Now, as we all know, large governments are very inefficent, and there is no way that one government can adapt to changed economic environments as quickly as a free market economy.
First of all what I have stated now a few times there are stages in Marxist theory as to the development to communism (to communism because it is the last foreseeable stage). So make it clear what stage youre talking about. Because In communism the nation is organized into collectives areas which have a level of autonomy (self determination, you know what the USA takes away from most countries) so this talk about huge governments is not really true seeing there broken up into small governments.
And oh yes the free market system does great work in the allocation of recourses just look what happen in Ireland the great famine was man made because the government wouldnt intervene in the market place.
Now, I understand, as a young person growing up in the world, discovering their first pubic hairs and the function of various body parts, you are extremely curious as to the workings of larger society. Coming with this curiousity is a strong streak of rebellion against the ways of life of the previous generation, which Freud put down to an intense desire to have sex with your mother. Possible paternal sex motivation aside, I'd like to point out that it is not necessary for you to reject every value and tradition of the previous generation. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, those with EXPERT TRAINING (read: university degrees, years of experience) would know better than you (or some Che Lives emagazine) the optimal economic system for the world. I mean, I admit that the Internet is an exceptional source of truthful information from well educated academics from around the world, and many of these academics devote themselves to writing well respected electronic magazines, but surely we don't have to embrace everything these experts say.
Nice rant, said pretty much nothing you can attack what Im saying so you attack me, you know if youd listened to me and at least tried to understood what we are talking about then maybe you wouldnt have to revert to attacking the person not the facts and making sweeping statements and not backing them up. Now this idea that am Im rebelling from my mother and father? Both are socialist and I dont know about you or Freud but I dont have an Oedipus complex. But anyways to sum up that whole passage your basically youre saying Im odder then you Im right even without giving any facts
