Re: Communism Vs Democracy
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Originally Posted by Lynx
look at russia now, theres no communism, people are uncontrollable, they do whatever they want
you say this as if it was something bad. imho it's the way it must be: people doing what they want as long as they don't interfere with each other.
The USSR was basically a planned state capitalism, Communism is basically a thoretical model that was never really implemented on a country wide level. A form of communism exists on Israeli kibuz's, so basically you can say it can work in an agrarian society if people really decide to make it work.
Communism is basically a system of organizing economy while democracy is a system of government, they are in different categories so you can't really compare them. Probably what you were meaning to ask was whether democracy is any better than a dictatorship. Imho democracy is far better, it has its shortcomings but a dictatorship is basically a form of societal insanity and in practically any dictatorship there's groups of people that have all sorts of nastry things happen to them on account of them being somehow different from the enforced norm. Think about it, you say something someone doesn't like and that someone just happens to be in a position of authority over you, and you wind up doing 10 years in jail or even facing a firing squad just because of something you said. doesn't it suck?