Could it work in an absolute vacuum with a homogeneous group of people that were all followers of the same faith?
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Juan Taylor
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Jose Wilson
Yes, if said faith is in the state
Joseph Johnson
Not really, ultimately it requires ordering people around if they deviate ever so slightly in preferences and aspirations.
And ordering people around will give power to a select few people, and that ultimately leads to corruption to a very high level.
Cooper Clark
I assume your referring to the ultimate goal of communism, and not socialism, but the answer is no, the first person with a little ambition, and power will tear your utopia to pieces, and make themselves some kind of dictator.
Adam Gray
and "work" meant exist in a stasis. There is no incentive to invent or progress in communist utopias, unless the population is very very small or humans are engineered not to have individual pride and recognition as motivational force (for nearly everything.)
If whamyn ever stop measuring their worth by their insta followers and faceberg likes, then it can "work".
Christian Rogers
I’m leaning toward this. Utopianism is a big factor in human suffering, me thinks. What’s the closest to a utopia humanity has ever seen? Post WW2 America? I doubt it.
Camden Parker
Utopia is not for this world, we can only strive towards it but never come close.
Striving towards a utopia brings out the best and worst in people, where good intentions go hand in hand with justifying the means on how to do it because of these good intentions.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you're not corruptable and have genuine good intentions, you'll be replaced eventually with someone who is corruptable.
Strive for as much freedom, economically first, the rest of the freedoms are inevitable to follow.
Brody Edwards
>Could it work in an absolute vacuum with a homogeneous group of people that were all followers of the same faith?
Within a group of 150 people, it CAN work.
It's called a commune.
Above that? Has never happen. Probably never will.
Alexander Reed
Communism describes the 'Kibbutz' which is somewhere between a commune and a corporation. A very workable structure, admittedly with some scale problems.
en.wikipedia.org
Communism prescribes that society be operated in the very same manner as a Kibbutz, the twist here is, if we also inherit Talmud and Torah on top of Marx, taking with us the perspective that Jews will command the goyim as livestock, it becomes clear that the international jew will be given common slaves, just like the book tells them to desire.
Aiden Bailey
Nope. Never. Human nature for some individuals to seize power and some to be subservient. communism in any form is a larp for the power-hungry to subvert the weak and will never amount to anything else.
Nathan Wright
How many long term successful communes are there then?
> 0
Brayden Cox
nigga literally any ideology could work under those conditions, but modern communists want diversity. Only systems that prize a group that is homogeneous can work in the long run.
Bentley Taylor
No
Nicholas Thomas
communists are not human.
Kevin Russell
Well, the inca empire was close to communism. They followed five rules.
1. Dont steal
2. Dont kill.
3. Dont lie.
4. Dont betray (in a sexual manner).
5. Dont be lazy.
And there were three types of work that everybody had to do.
Minka which was the ritual work, in order to offer things our god Inti (the sun).
Ayni which was the work families did to help each other, expecting that the other will help him in the future too (because if they didnt they were punished).
And Mita which was the statal work. If the emperor (the Inca) called you to make a path or a building you had to leave everything you were doing and start working.
They usually conquered a lot of cities but never imposed a sole culture. They were polytheistic, so the conquered cultures would never have a reason to opose to the empire.
They usually would negotiate before fighting and if that didnt work they would go into a direct war
It worked pretty well and there wasnt any type of currency, just work. Everybody helped each other for the greater good.
Thomas Harris
But this mainly worked because the incas werent so egocentric. Also because being egocentric was punished.
Hudson Cooper
>ere all followers of the same faith
Already blew your own shit moron.
Communism enforces atheism, therefore no faith
Isaac Perry
No, even among a homogenous culture the system brings out the worst traits in people. Rewarding the looser using what the winners made breeds compliance and entitlement. It saps innovation and tenacity.
Gabriel Sullivan
As long as human greed exists, utopias are just fantasy. Humanity is a flawed species by default, only placed in this universe as a joke by a divine, but cruel being like pic related.
Ryan Jackson
>could my favorite retarded brainfart trying to appeal to mentally retarded losers work in unrealistic special conditions
no fuck off
Aiden Scott
Communism is the family unit.
It doesn't scale to people you dont care about.
Jason Hernandez
Celts also had some kind of communism. The land wasn't "owned" by individuals. Everybody was expected to work the land or manufacture tools, which were all property off the "village". nevertheless they had social classes. Chieftain for example could more freely use everything.
As some people already said, i think the community can't consist off many people.
It can only work in ancient society. Everybody works to provide basic needs.
in modern society you get rewarded for above average capabilities, carrying more responsibility,... Without these incentives, why bother