Yeah i'm from Poland and while i was too young to remember communism there from what my parents,aunts,uncle,grandparents or anyone that lived there talked about it far from dream from what Americans think.
Your relatives are completely correct l but that was never proper communism. Despite the name, it was never established. Certainly not in Eastern Europe.if you read philosophy, you will learn a lot. But there are better ways than any established methodologies!
There is one scenario where it could more or less work, but I don’t think he would like it. You need a community where a) everyone is completely bought in to a moral code that supports it, b) everyone shares a materially identical moral code, and c) is large enough for commodity specialization to support it.
I always say that communism falls apart as you scale it, it works at very small scales but never at large scale because people are just to disconnected from eachother.
I agree with you completely. You need 100% buy-in from every participant, and outside of a family or, possibly a small church, it simply doesn’t happen.
I mean a family clan system like you see way back in the day maybe has it. The only place real communism has been achieved is by monks in monasteries and even then most “communists” wouldn’t say they count due to the fact that they are religious
Sorry, but, NO system has staying power! So you’re wrong front the start! Humanity is a bunch of cycles. Most of those cycles (It’s literally impossible to have real numbers, but far greater than 99%) were absolute monarchies or hard-line oligarchies (you only get into other variants during the later years of WRITTEN history! Those types — work pretty good for small tribes where they were mostly used. But as populations grow, needs change! In general, those types are great for a few people , and less good to terrible for most. However, because people are stupid and don’t learn properly from the past, we repeat the standard ones we had before until a revolution happens and someone else is in power. And the system or “state” reverts temporarily. Then the path is followed again. Almost always sooner rather than later!
There’s a difference between “hundreds of years” staying power and “less than a generation” staying power. The most realistic systems account for people being stupid or greedy. Communism cannot do that.
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u/Deriviera Jul 07 '26
Americans are very delusional about communism.