Communism AND Capitalism, NOT Communism Vs Capitalism It is very simple in theory: Communism -- common needs, i.e. bodily functions & basic security of being, as described by the UN Human Rights declaration, along with other critical infrastructures organized and prioritized by the public governments. Capitalism -- different wants, i.e. various mind-derived desires of different individuals to get non-essential things, which is organized and provided for by the private business within the free-market economy driven by the supply and demand of the consumers. The important distinction should be made of apparent dichotomy between the need to use something vs the want to derive value from it. If human sustenance is not pegged on any particular value driven exchange, then there is no problem if some group collects shells and one of them has most of the shells and dominates that groups shells availability and their going rate, since everybodys livelihoods is not being threatened by it. It only becomes a problem when human need to use things and resources for survival is interfered with by others who want to extract some value from it, hence forcing artificial scarcity and unsustainable conditions aimed at extracting monetary value vs using resources wisely to provide for our common human needs. Instead of focusing on work, aka chopping old growth to make toothpicks, the focus should be on the how to share and manage common resources to address common needs, the generated GDP can issue the dividend to the citizen shareholders who collectively own the municipal, provincial, and federal corporations, and if they work for the government then they get paid a salary for performing public trust duties. Then the general population can decide for themselves, free from the stress associated with the basic survival, what they want beyond their basic needs, and if they want to work for someone to get it or not, decision which is built on the consensus basis and not due to the fear for ones life. As long as a society does not provide its members fare representation in the resource sharing and provisions of basic functions of life it is doomed to be unstable, corrupt, abusive, miserable, and ultimately to fail. The human body represents the human needs and the government represents the collective agreement in addressing these basic common needs, hence the communist ideology results from such a focus. In the dichotomy of the opposing concepts which define the whole, the mind represents the human wants, after it has finished ~wanting~ to help the body with what needs to be done, the mind has many ideas of its own of what it wants to do, experience, and accomplish. The big difference is the priorities between the needs and wants, the physical needs are not negotiable and have to be addressed one way or another, while wants have more wiggle room and can be postponed or/and altered. The commerce fuelled business of the private sector represents the collective agreement in addressing these basic common different wants for a market place where exchange of goods and services are driven by the supply and demand, hence the capitalist ideology results from such a focus. I agree that the free market economy of an idealized state of goods and services exchange that i am referring to as an example of what the individuals would want to engage in after their basic needs are satisfied, a matter of fact, is not the same as the current model of so-called capitalism, which is not driven by the supply and demand as many would think but is rather centralized hierarchical system built and maintained with an aim to only benefit small private interest groups, while forces people to make tough labour choices, or lack there of, in order to be able to afford, barely, their basic survival. Obviously such is not the consensus built system of free enterprise but a totalitarian dictatorship of wealth accumulation by the very few elites at the expense of the overwhelming majority who are illegally and malevolently kept poor through artificially maintained scarcity, fear, fatigue, hunger, and disease, who were deprived of their universal inalienable rights, rightful share in common good, tools, and freedom of choice. As a saying goes, in capitalism man oppresses man, in communism its the other way around.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:23:08 +0000
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