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How is Capitalism and Communism alike?

Communism and Capitalism.?

  • In your opinion do you think that Communism is naturally a true supporter of equality and that this complex economic system was made for good intentions but it simply doesn't work because of our human nature. I'm trying to point out that communism like Capitalism are both different economic systems and they are both simply different ideas to improve the progress of our human race. We shouldn't just criticize supporters of Communism or Capitalism. Both of these systems use their unique characteristics to try to move our human race forward. Capitalism uses the fact that humans are competitive for example to move us forward and Communism uses the fact that cooperation is a strong key to success also.

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    Life is an energy machine that replicates. Nature is the COMPETITION between these machines. Society is the Cooperation between these machines to the end of WINNING the COMPETITION. Marxism is a profoundly dysfunctional form of Socialism/Communism PRECISELY because it strives for EQUALITY when LIFE itself strives for SUPERIORITY. Understand? Socialism can be functional if it pursues SUCCESS rather than EQUALITY. German Socialists (Nazis) were very successful in reviving a shattered economy because they preached and sometimes even practiced an effort to become the 'super-race'. The Germans as a people were highly motivated by the notion of becoming SUPERIOR. And while the Nazis believed in the far Left principals of Socialism, i.e. INDIVIDUALS exist to serve SOCIETY, they never made the mistake of thinking EQUALITY was a thing to be strived for - or that NEED should be rewarded over MERIT. Some Marxists even consider Nazis as Right wing, since their respect for the Natural hierarchy resembled that of the Capitalists who feel SOCIETY exists to serve INDIVIDUALS. You see the Political Spectrum is between the far Right of Anarchy where the INDIVIDUAL is everything, to the far Left of Communism where the SOCIETY is everything. And in between are Libertarians, Conservatives, Moderates, Liberals & Socialists, with the emphasis on Society rising as you move Left. Bees & Ants are Natural Communists but they have NO sense of EQUALITY. It was Karl Marx who thought Communism should promote the insipidity of unachievable EQUALITY combined with the economic insanity of rewarding NEED over MERIT. Politely put Marx was a pinhead. Darwinian law states you get MORE of whatever you REWARD. Marxism rewards NEED. Hence we see ad nausum in Marxist nations the growth of NEED until the economy collapses. And the same is true when Marxist Socialism or Liberalism is practiced in places like Greece or California. When NEED is rewarded you get more NEED. Now an economic system is the buying and selling of goods & services (aka business). CAPITALISM is the belief that this should be largely under INDIVIDUAL rather than SOCIAL/GOVERNMENT control. Hence robust Capitalism is typical of Right leaning political systems. Now SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM doesn't exactly STOP the INDIVIDUAL from starting a business, they just maintain that the POINT of a business is to serve SOCIETY rather than profit the INDIVIDUAL who runs it. Now it's POSSIBLE for a Socialistic Government to have a robust economy IF it rewards the Individuals whose companies 'properly' serve the public interest; or more specifically allows them to PROFIT while serving the public. But if you are a Marxist like Obama, your tolerance for well rewarded Individuals is extremely limited, because this IS the dreaded INEQUALITY. Salaries must be capped & wealth must be redistributed based on NEED. Which produces the business toxic, job killing economy we see today. You see terms like 'moving the human race forward' & 'strong keys to success' have no intrinsic meaning. If EQUALITY is defined as SUCCESS you are destined for FAILURE in a Darwinian world striving for SUPERIORITY. In general INDIVIDUALS with ABILITIES will gravitate towards Societies that let them keep much of their earnings, rather than those Societies/Governments that feel private PROFITS should be PUBLIC property.

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First off, we haven't really come up with a system where all people really do get to be equal, on a large scale. There are some small communities, most notably the Amish, who've make true socialism work, but only on a small scale. They haven't gotten full blown socialism to really work for a whole country yet, or even a province or state yet. If they could, that would probably be pretty close to equality. Communism inherently cannot create an equal society, since a certain class of people get to make all the decisions about how resources get allocated, and who does what job and who gets what price for what produce. Not everyone gets to make the decisions, just the party members. It'd be impossible actually for everyone to make the decisions because even in a democracy a majority rules a minority. In pure, true capitalism, the invisible hand makes these decisions. In this way, individual people and organizations must collaborate to determine prices, and output and who does what job. Suppliers and demanders, in capitalism agree on prices. You can't have one without the other, and this is why capitalism is more egalitarian than communism (but not socialism of course). It's interesting that in the United States we have elements of all three systems in play. We have socialist policies like social security and medicare, we have communist type command economy policies like the minimum wage, and other price setting mechanisms (that's right the minimum wage is semi communist because it's the government requiring a certain price) and most obviously capitalism too. It's kind of funny that we've needed elements of all three systems to make our society function. I wonder what it'd be like if we just committed to one.

Matt M

A communistic economy sounds great, and it does. Who would not want it equal not matter how hard or how lazy you work... Here is the thing, a communistic economy is controlled by the government. And what government does not love high taxes so they can live like kings or queens? To sum up a communistic economy (no matter how good the intentions are at first) would be high taxes, high prices, low quality, and low quantity. Now moving on to Capitalism, Capitalism basically means "I want to make as much money as possible, not matter how it is." In a capitalistic economy a company would either have to have high quality/quantity to have high prices to be successful. Just like it would have to have low quality/quantity to have low prices. This is great for the consumer. Yes, I think communism was made for good intentions, but nothing can sum up equality because in actuality there is not equality, you only have choice. Please answer mine, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoiJ941EGnwzXTwu91dxjB_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100628212132AA3WOaa

Simply Avery

So far only Communism has failed in many countries. Capitalism has never failed so far. There is some thing called socialism. some countries use a combination of Communism and Capitalism, though it is not exactly socialism

Punartham

both are awful for a lot of people. socialism is good for everyone. i dont see why it hasnt been implemented in america yet.

JoeZZ30

I just wanted to say: Phoenix, GREAT ANSWER!!!!

Steve B

In order to gain enough support from the public for a communist system, it would have to be assumed by that public that it would be created with good intentions. The fact that it does not work would suggest to me that those who created communist systems were making assumptions, and that they indeed (at least the earliest communist systems) had good intentions. Part of the problem, is that this places too much power in the hands of the government, and power tends to corrupt; so some communist countries which based their systems on existing communist countries, may have had their systems created for the purpose of gaining power. But for the earliest communist systems, it is possible, maybe probable, that they had good intentions. Unfortunately for them, these systems have proven to be extremely inefficient compared to market economies, causing shortages and surpluses, giving consumers fewer choices, creating no incentive for innovation. Worker morale is low due to lack of incentive increase prosperity, even due to poor working conditions. As to whether communism symbolizes true equality - absolutely not in my mind, but it would have to in the minds of those who buy into such a system. I don't see how this could ever lead to true equality; even, as the communist theory states, eventually you would have equal outcome, this equal outcome would be at a low level of production, a low quality of life. To grow an economy and increase the quality of life, people would have to be compensated for how much they produce. Without this, equal outcome does not equate to equality.

jerry w

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