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old.Dillinja
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Equality for all?
Equality for all?
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Uncle Sick(tm)
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OMGHOLOL!!1
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Teh Krypt
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You need another L and O
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Nope I can't be bothered to even answer that
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Pixie.Pebr
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"Communism," explained General Kwar, is a system that has been thought up to address and solve the problems inherent to capitalism. It –"
"It must be strictly better than capitalism, then, since it solves its problems," estimated Sarkon. "How does it work?"
"Well, it solved some problems alright, but it also created new ones, new ones that turned out to be, unfortunately, also worse ones," sighed General Kwar. "Besides, it wasn't put into place by a democratic vote, but by a group of people – a revolutionary oligarchy - who used violence to impose it, so that it started in a rather bad way. Anyway – here's how it works." He paused to gather his thoughts, and then went on, "Communism organizes society by identifying everyone's needs and making specific groups work towards answering those needs. Every group works towards answering one need, so that in the end all needs are satisfied evenly for everyone."
"Sounds good…" estimated Sarkon.
"It eliminated the first source of inequalities inherent to capitalism, the grip of a few people upon a majority of resources that was a result of past oligarchic systems, by redistributing resources equally between all," explained General Kwar. "Also, it was supposed to avoid the second source of inequalities inherent to capitalism, the taking away of resources from weaker societies by stronger ones, by extending communism to the whole world and thus satisfy everyone's basic needs everywhere. Finally, the third source of inequalities intrinsic to capitalism, inheritance, was addressed by suppressing property altogether, making all resources go back to the state upon a person's death. They couldn't address the fourth source of inequalities in capitalism, genetic differences, in their times, but with today's genetics and cloning possibilities they would have been able to solve that problem too in the end, I guess, and organize society in the most perfect equalitarian way, with everyone's needs satisfied by everyone's efforts."
"I don't like the cloning part so much, but the rest sounds alright. Now I'm waiting for the catch," commented Sarkon.
"One of the catches was a sad misunderstanding of human nature: the people who put themselves in charge soon took advantage of their position to satisfy more needs than most people, thus immediately tainting the ideal of equality they had started with. Then they wanted their ideal to be stronger than life itself; they exiled, imprisoned, tortured and killed to impose it, thus turning their ideal into a nightmare. These were, however, just mistakes in the setting up of communism, and did not necessarily mean that communism was wrong. The main theoretical flaw of it, its biggest catch, would come up much later.
"The biggest catch was that the persons who thought up communism believed that people just needed to have their needs answered, and that making them do so rationally would be enough to organize society in a fair and equal way. As a matter of fact, communism was a way of organizing society in a fair and equal way, indeed, but they were wrong on one very important point: as awkward as it sounds, people need more than having their needs answered."
"What can you want more than have your wants satisfied?" wondered Dr. Qworm. "Isn't that a contradiction, a logical impossibility?"
"Remember the Flight from Omnipotence theory: if you could do anything you want, you would have all your wants and needs answered immediately, so that you wouldn't have any anymore. This would put you into a situation of not needing anything at all anymore, so that you'd have no more reason to act and no more reason to exist – an extremely nefarious situation which should lead to non-existence, that is death. This very danger, however, makes you want to create a flurry of limits and constraints for yourself to escape your situation of omnipotence, and these limits and constraints then force you to struggle and make you have needs again. This tells us that the creation of new needs is something not only part of life, but actually is the Original Need, the need that started life in the first place. So yes, we need more than just having our needs answered: although we are not aware of it, we need new needs. From the point of view of consciousness (which is the only point of view that actually is), life's evolution from unicellular beings to humans is the multiplication of limits and constraints, of needs and desires, from a couple to billions.
"Communism, unfortunately, does not give much room to the creation of new needs. Since in a communist society needs are identified and not created and people are told what to do, they have not much incentive to think up anything new. Of course, it takes more than a political system to stifle human creativity, and some new needs can be created in this system, but they are few in comparison with the new needs created in a capitalistic way of organizing society. Thus a communist society evolves slower than a capitalistic one; it becomes less dynamic, changes less, and slowly becomes comparatively weaker."
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taken from http://www.geocities.com/welgon_age/Encompassists.htm
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Pixie does his homework Oo
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Its not fugging homework
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Pixie.Pebr
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Too old for school
Have to get a job soon though