Originally Posted by
Goldenboko
Communism is a great idea. But it doesn't work. By creating a power-infrastructure you have people with power fighting other people with power. And as long as anyone can rise to become those people with power and the power struggle maintains to be everlasting, the land/country/world will stay free. You can try and get rid of that power, but you have someone you will always have someone trying to gain power. People aren't perfect, people have greed, people want strength. So to get rid of people's natural desire for power you need to create a government, which in turns holds the people down. But who holds that power? And who stops the holder of that power from becoming corrupt? And if someone overthrows someone stricken with greed, who stops that person from becoming greedy? And continue that to infinity.
A struggle for power, creates a democracy, it drives people to do good. You're type of altruistic idea of "freedom" doesn't work, and starts dictatorships.
Seriously, you really need to learn how to use "your" and "you're" properly.
The very government which you have helped to spawn holds people down; you have said it yourself. By the values of education and a free flow of information, people will be able to cast off the shackles of ignorance; no need there would be for a system that ensures policing for the people would have the ability to do it themselves. Government is not an instrument of oppression; neither should the people be afraid, nor shoudl the government fear the people.
It is a contract. And either side is held responsible by its own constituency; however, your dastardly regime has stripped away the consequences for the government, and pushed it onto the people. Unable are they to live their life freely. If in fact, they choose to live as evil and cruel people, it should be the fault of the person. However, your societal infrastructure pushes and holds people down to the bottom. You have said it yourself, and it is your self-perpetuating prophecy.
