This is something I find odd. There are allot of communist groups on Lemmy and more and more Americans think they like communism probably because they don’t even know what it is. However what’s funny is there has never been and is currently NO communist countries in existence. Literally.
It is an actual imaginative concept and its just strange none of these people realize it. I don’t care if you’re communist. But just do it, like make it happen so you all can see the flaws in it and realize its wishful thinking.
I’ll tell you why communism doesn’t work. It’s missing the root word (community) you all don’t come together outside of online groups and occasional marches.
So have you noticed this?
yaroto98@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The communism ideals are great. Problem is, they historically fail when put into practice. Funny thing, it’s because of power hungry assholes. That same reason is why democracies fail, why republics fail, why monarchies fail, why theocracies fail and so on.
If only there were a pattern here that we could learn from. One person with too much power and eventually, you’ll get an asshole so mad with power they bring the whole system down and we have to start over.
The more parties, check, ballances, laws, and red tape, and the like help stave it off for longer, but nothing lasts forever. There is bo perfect system that can’t be undone by assholes.
HubertManne@piefed.social 16 hours ago
I really wish the founding fathers had split the executive into a tribunal.
huquad@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
In the early days, the runner up became the vice president. I think that kept things more tempered instead of the all or nothing we have now.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Benevolent dictators can happen by accident, but never by design. A system designed to govern fairly will inevitably be abused by people who have no intention of fairness. You can place as many obstacles in their path as you wish, you can’t stop them forever and eventually they will get around them all.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 17 hours ago
That’s why any place with a fucking brain at minimum massively controls the assholes and at maximum puts them to death.
Though when money IS everyones’ “god”, the rich and greedy and more divine than us plebs…
lunatique@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
The many keep allowing the few to ruin it all.
yaroto98@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Good people don’t want the power. They want a nice easy peaceful life surrounded by loved ones. The assholes strive for power and authority. A few good people try to make a difference.
Even if you tried to make a legislature out of regular citizens forced to do the work like jury duty, it would get twisted and regulated like current jury duty.