Three Reasons Why True Communism is Evil
Originally posted to Thinkspot on July 16th, 2021.
Last night, in response to the people of Cuba standing up against the Communist regime that has oppressed them for half a century, I saw someone post a variation on the No True Scotsman fallacy. {Communism isn't bad. It's the people who implement it.} You've heard this before. If we could just put TRUE communism into practice, the world would become a Utopia. My initial response to this was that it doesn't matter if the idea of communism isn't bad, if all the communist leaders are evil.
I'm tired of making this argument. Its pointless. Let's set the facts straight. Even the concept of communism is evil.
Communists do not understand how human nature works. You cannot breed out selfishness, ambition or hatred. It is quite literally impossible. Even if you were able to find the exact right group of people to lead the first wave of ideal communism, eventually someone who isn't interested in the public good will take over. It doesn't matter how much you play REM's Shiny Happy People in the gulags, some people are given to a bad nature. All it would take is the tiniest spark of ambition to create the next Joseph Stalin. Tyranny is a far more realistic outcome than Utopia.
2. Forced Labor.
In a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper, C-list actor and D-list Hellboy David Harbour espoused his love for true communism. Harbour explained that he was well aware that previous versions of communism have all led to the slaughter of innocents, but that HIS version of communism would be better. Essentially in his mind communism is people holding hands and everyone has access to kittens and balloon rides. The thing is the people who believe in the teachings of Karl Marx all have this cartoony image of Utopia in their mind. In the Utopia, everyone will be free of the shackles of Capitalism, living in a world of plenty. And with everyone's physical needs met, no one will ever want for anything and thus everyone will be happy.
That's insanely naïve. First of all, everyone thinks like David Harbour. "I'll be free to dance and make art! I'll make my living as a painter!" Or something to that effect. Yeah, that isn't going to happen. First of all, even in a Utopia, the trash still needs to be taken out. If the governor of a state makes the same amount of money as the person who who works 16 hours a day in the heat as a farmer, why would anyone want the hard jobs? Someone has to do them though. Can't have a world of plenty if someone isn't providing the plenty. You've removed all incentive for hard labor, so how do you get the trains to run on time? You assign jobs. You make the people at the bottom do what needs to be done. Communism will always lead to forced labor. There may not be rich or poor, but their will always be an oppressor and an oppressed, even in true communism.
3. Stagnancy.
But let's say you manage to make Utopia perfect and everyone is content. What then? Struggle is the essence of creativity and innovation. Perfection is by it's nature a dead end. Humanity would become stagnant. Why would we dream of going to the stars if our bellies are full and our hearth is burning? Creativity and art would die. Your perfect world would be flat and hopeless.
Capitalism is a flawed system that mostly works. Communism a broken system that never works and has killed untold millions of people. Yet you still have people striving to replace the former with the latter. Why is that?
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