I am not a fan of Communism. I've studied it and know of historical examples going back as far as Pythagoras. The Pythagoras one actually seemed to work while he was alive to "lead" it. It seemed to crumble quickly after his death.
There are many things I don't like about Communism after thinking about it, doing mental experiments, and studying history. Though at it's root it is NOT the typical things that people argue about Communism that are the biggest blemish with the ideology in my mind.
I thought I'd write about this while I seem to have somewhat of a mental picture of it and before it fades. I also fully expect some of my communist leaning friends here on steemit (isn't steemit great!) will have plenty to say and will disagree. That's fine. It might even illustrate my point. ;)
As far as I have seen those that advocate Communism are aware that there are those that will not agree and will not integrate with them. Largely the solution to that seems to be to eliminate them. Sometimes it is simply cast them out, banish them, etc. Other times it is as extreme as killing them. In some cases casting them out when there is nowhere for them to go is the same as killing them. Historically this would seem to be what they DO when they do get a chance to implement it. The exception I am aware of being the previously mentioned Pythagorean community. Yet, as always seems to happen the argument will be that "these were not true communists". Okay, I've come to expect that statement, followed by READ THIS BOOK and sharing a reference to a book I have to buy, and in some cases a PDF. The PDF cases I've often tried to read and it's just made me dislike it even more.
Really I don't need to lean on those examples or historical examples. I've discussed with many advocates of Communism how there are a lot of different people and the problem with ANY ideology that is based upon a concept of how people will and should behave is based upon the mental perceptions of one or a few people that conceived of and discussed the ideology. Yet people think many different ways, and behave many different ways. What motivates one, does not motivate others. Some have a good moral compass, others do not. Some people are greedy, others are not. Some people are creative, others are not. Some people have strange fetishes, others do not. Some people like pain for example, most people do not. So when some "philosopher" comes up with a brilliant plan to fix the world it is generally based around how they perceive the world. It can often be a box that they are trying to shove the problem into when in reality many things fall outside of that box. This is not true of just Communism. It is actually true of all of our ideologies as far as I am able to tell. So this is NOT my problem with Communism.
My problem is with how Communist advocates I speak for believe this should be handled. It essentially boils down to an almost Eugenics type of situation. If they don't fit into this box, eliminate them. We will build up with the people that agree with us, and can follow our plan. I am not religious, so when I say "this is evil" it has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with simply knowing that killing someone for thinking different things than you do is wrong.
Yet when you speak to Communists about the violence of say the "Black Bloc" in Antifa they generally will defend the actions. They believe violence and a purging of sorts must occur in order to institute Communism. They realize it likely cannot be achieved peacefully.
Historically others have thought this as well. It hasn't turned out too well. It has resulted in the largest killing of their own people in history. Stalin and Mao both outnumber the deaths of the holocaust by many magnitudes more. Yet it is people talking about the "Nazis" and the holocaust as the bad thing. Yes, that was bad, yet it pales compared to the purges that resulted from people trying to implement what they called Communism, but modern day Communist advocates say was not communism. That illustrates the point... people don't think the same, they don't perceive things the same.
Purging based upon one person, or even several people's perception is nothing more than eugenics, murder, etc. It is wrong.
One of my favorite voluntaryist and Anarcho-Capitalist sayings is "Good ideas do not require force" and I believe this to be a true statement.
Now there are numerous other things I don't like about communism, but the biggest thing is the realization it cannot be born without force, and it likely cannot persist without force. People will be born that do not think the same, perceive the same, etc. Shall the purges continue?
Why not just build robots and kill everyone but those who program the robots to conform with their perfect view of how society should function?
