Brent: Communism is not a terrible idea - it works fine for families. A lot of > political problems come from trying to extend ethics that evolved for > families and small tribes to nation states of millions of unrelated people. > > Thanks Brent, I keep saying this but seem to get reactions along the lines of Stalin was evil therefore communism can't work for anyone, ever. It not only works for tribes, families and villages, it can even work to a reasonable extent in societies where people are closely related. There appears to be a rough correlation between the degree of interrelatedness of people in a socity and the degree to which social welfare programmes and so on are implemented, in my admittedly limited experience.
You forgot to mention that it works very well for the upper class, too, who tend to look after themselves with old boys' networks etc. Hence the slogan of the West should really be - "capitalism for the masses, communism for the rich!" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
