<p>I am an idealist and an intellect comparable to Woodrow Wilson was. That is why I do not want to go into politics. We intellects know too much. “The world is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”</p>
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<p>Likewise, to restrict a person’s right to apply force would be to restrict a person’s freedom. So in a perfectly free society it would be perfectly natural for a group to band together to protect their self interest. In fact, if the majority felt they were being subjugated by a few, it would make sense for them to rise up and force a more equitable distribution of resources.</p>
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<p>Because Billy is a high school student?</p>
<p>It turns out poverty can serve as a communist indoctrination system. Who woulda thunk.</p>
<p>And no, my school did not support my communist ideals.</p>
<p>Billy should have gone to my school.</p>
<p>But I enjoy debate.</p>
<p>Well, you’d have me. That is the purpose I served in our R.E.D. club.</p>
<p>So, like, would we get to pick our jobs out of a hat?</p>
<p>My grandmother was in her college’s communism club</p>
<p>If you’re not a capitalist, you’re not American.</p>
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<p>I am an American citizen, actually.</p>
<p>And what is “American” is hardly always what is righteous. Slavery was American, genocide was American, manifest destiny was American, torture is American.</p>
<p>No true Scotsman fallacy (where’s the cooler sounding Latin translation for this logical fallacy?).</p>
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<p>damn straight.</p>
<p>You sound like Obama. 1-20-13 end of an error. Lets bring in someone whose economic theories are more in line with friedman and hayek</p>
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<p>In practice, I think social democracies seem most efficient; pure communism vs. pure capitalism both limit the population’s rights, albeit in very different ways, and will therefore provoke revolutions (which are not necessarily bad, but since their goal would be to change the economy…) and make for very unhappy nations. I think the root of many of our problems is a shoddy education system, though.</p>
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<p>Billy, look at yourself. You are presumably middle class or pretty close. You have a computer right? Most of the world doesn’t have what you have so why don’t you give away what you have to the people in those pictures you like to post? This is the problem. No one wants to give away his own money. Who’s going to be the first to throw his cash into the big communal pot?</p>
<p>Anyways, communism’s just a scam that the ruling communist party uses to keep everyone else poor while getting rich themselves. In every communist (or as close to communism as possible) country in human history, the vast majority of citizens are desperately poor while the communist leaders live well. Communism doesn’t work.</p>
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<p>That’s true, but I don’t think it’s clear that any country has come as close to communism as possible.</p>
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<p>And that’s completely false.</p>
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<p>The people that will be first to throw their wealth into the communal plot are those that are already wealthy and will be overthrown by the workers’ revolution. And the point of communism is that the people in those pictures have more to gain from taking the money back from the capitalists that have exploited them than from small acts of charity.</p>
<p>What workers’ revolution? In the United States? If a group of people went around trying to forcibly turn over the nation, you can bet that there would be a swift and crushing response. Do you really think that in as advanced (militarily, economically) country as the US, the wealthy and successful, who hold the reigns of power in literally every single aspect of society, would just sit back and give up everything they have worked hard for? If such a revolution were to occur (which, by the way, there is absolutely no indication of happening any time soon) there would be a confrontation of biblical proportions, and the revolutionaries would certainly be obliterated.</p>
<p>In the United States, communism is disliked by the vast majority of people in every economic class. From day one, all Americans are taught that through hard work they can rise high. This is the American way, and this is what America was built on. Communism is reviled throughout the US and as such any supporters of a communist revolution would be a painfully small minority.</p>
<p>There is a reason why the only strictly communist country left in the world, N. Korea, also happens to be the world’s biggest beggar. The other “communist” countries, such as Russia and China, have gained their senses and have become, for all intents and purposes, capitalist.</p>