Human nature tends to fight against the root tenets of Communism.
Y'know this was one of those messages that 5 minutes after I posted it, I had second thoughts. Not so much because I believe communism is fundamentally flawed (honestly I haven't read enough Rousseau or Marx to really give a very informed critical evaluation of their views on communism), but just because this is a forum talking about the war, not about economic systems and their pros/cons.
Having said that, to be nit picky I didn't actually say that "Communism rules, Capitalism Sucks" (as a matter of fact, nowhere in my message was communism mentioned), I just wanted to point out that many (including Rousseau and Marx, who were two
very intelligent men and acclaimed political philosophers) have raised some very serious concerns about capitalism.
So I'm not going to respond to your claims about communism, because I'm not in a position to debate them.
Marx and Rousseau had very wishful imaginations, but in practice, their theories have brought living nightmares.
Just wanted to add one last thing to this, while you might be right that Marx's & Rousseau's ideas had difficulties in practice, the same can be said of pro-capitalist economic theories such as Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand". So before you start pointing out the toothpicks in anothers ocean, perhaps you should address the logs in your own lake.
Again, I'm not saying that I have a viable alternative to capitalism, I'm not an economic or political philosopher, I'm just saying it's far from perfect, and I have concerns about the effects of capitalism both on the economies of capitalist countries as well as on the human race as well (certainly capitalism is strongly tied to things such as global warming, or sweat-shops).
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