Quote Originally Posted by bad manners
How was creativity disallowed in the USSR?
It's not that it is disallowed, it is stiffled.

If everyone recieves equal share of the nation's resources, there is no motivation to try hard. You work you ass off everyday only to earn the same as lazy slacker next to you? Doesn't take long to kill the morale of the hard worker.

The fantasy of Communism is that people will work hard for the good of the community but that just doesn't happen.

And, BTW, Democracy is not the opposite of Communism. Laise-faire Capitalim is.

Tim.