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Originally Posted by Ibram
I still say a libertarian, democratic communist system would be the best of all of them... but nearly impossible to actually do.
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Especially since democracy and communism do not actually occur together in real-world practice. This is why I've never remotely been a communist. I take this as a sign of intelligence (". . .if you're still a communist at forty, you have no brain.").
Read
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin. I didn't find it compelling enough to finish it (LeGuin usually isn't my cup of tea), but it is an indictment of the whole communist ethos, merely in its exposition of the kind of psychological conditioning its extremely communalist society needed merely to function. Communism is not for human beings -- and only approaches workability in an environment where possessions are extremely few.
Age, and relative experience of the world beyond the family and the neighborhood, very strongly influence how people think, and therefore how they speak. Persons with experience are likely to
know what they're talking about. Persons of inexperience... wellllll....
For a well-reasoned argument that communism and fascism are in their fundamentals both creatures of the Left, see the writings of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. They were competitors for aggrandized government controlling all things, not antitheses. Some say this is one reason they fought so bitterly, and a shame it was they couldn't both lose utterly.
Leftism Revisited, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
And I suppose Coeur d'Alene can go back to its fame in the piping world for hosting a major bagpipe seminar/school there every August.