Subj : your opinion of current world situation
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Kaelon
Date : Sat Jun 08 2024 10:53 am

  Re: your opinion of current world situation
  By: Dumas Walker to mary4 on Sun May 19 2024 12:01 pm

 > The problem with socialism/communism is that you can never create a society
 > where everyone is
 > equal when it comes to output and effort.  You will always have people who

100% agreed. Communism or Socialism has always proven itself a theoretical and hypothetical model, that even its strictest adherents have lamented is impossible given human nature. Specifically, humans are driven by individual achievement and their immediate collective (their family, their circle of friends, their professional colleagues, etc.) will always take precedence over the broader collective.

Consider the failures of every Marxist/Lenninist state - from the USSR and Cuba to North Korea and countless other examples - and it is clear that systems of economic central planning only work through a federated model. For example, in China, the idea that "communism" could survive was abandoned in the late 1980s when much of the Politburo watched in horror as the Soviet Union started coming apart and could simply not compete with the economic output of the capitalist West.

So China did the unthinkable - it abandoned its central planning principles and started to dramatically nurture private enterprise. Today, China is broadly a capitalist system with some significant centralized controls, but it would be more appropriate to describe it as a Capitalist Oligarchy, with increasingly Sociopathic Dictatorial tendencies. Ultimately, China lacks the geopolitical resources - and it is sitting on top of a demographic crisis where ~70% of its population will be dead in the next 25 years with no hopes of replacement, thanks to the One-Child Policy - that it will not be en effective competitor to the United States or the European Union.

Capitalism continues to rule the world. The question is: how will Democracy evolve as speed and agility are starting to outstrip productivity as key measures of economic output?
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