Nowadays, unemployment is skyhigh, and even many people who do have jobs for the government/military are not paid, or paid only sporadically and partially. Pensioners don't receive their checks or recieve short checks. That's what I am talking about when I mean security.
4.9% is sky high (the last figure I heard this afternoon)? Also, it is much easier to give a person a job, when the company is owned by the state, not always producing something of value (setting nail quotas based on weight makes nail factory turn out railroad spikes, is an example I get alot), and certainly not competing with anyone.
People not paid for the work they do? (I think I would have heard these complaints)
Don;t know about the pensioners, but my guess is if they wern't geting the money, they would be in the same category as those not getting paid.
Out of curiosity...if a person chooses that existence, how can it be evil? To deprive someone of the choice to live in a communist society violates their freedoms, no?
It is bad. So is erecting walls and guard towers and prohibiting people from leaving Paradise.
Ask yourself what would happen if Lenin murdered the Czars and established a Capitalist democracy. Do you think Lenin would have setup an honest system that would be responsive to the people?
From what I understand, near the end, Lenin realized he screwed up, and started to revert some things back to capitalism. Then Stalin came in and clamped down.
The basis behind communism is communal ownership, not dictatorship.
Yep, but with more than a few dozen people, it is kinda hard to have communal ownership without someone directing the supplies.
Just because communism hasn't been put in place by a benevolent group doesn't mean it can't be done. Socialism has worked, communism can too.
It may work, it may not. So far, it hasn't. Of course, to prove something can never work, you must never have an example where it did work. I can't prove that it won't work, but I can prove that the likelihood of it working is low.
