Now onto the question, do you think that communism is a great idea?
If not, then why not?
Communism totally ignores the fact that humans are individuals with individual talents. It simply assumes that everything that constitutes a human is due to their environment. And hence when their environment is improved they too should improve.
So the first fallacy of communism is that humans are equal. When, in reality, humans are unique and unique things cannot be equal.
Secondly communism attributes inequality between people and groups to capitalism, and the free market system, without providing any real basis for their claim.
Capitalism is strictly the best thing that ever happened to man kind. The freedom to invest your time, energy and wealth in projects you believe will succeed is the most fundamental ingredient to any sort of net societal progress. This has been proven throughout history and is obvious and logical if looked at objectively.
So the second fallacy of communism is that capitalism is to blame for most everything that is wrong in the world. Quite the contrary, it is to praise for most everything that is good in the world. Such as computers, automobiles, the internet and medical science.
Thirdly, communism assumes that all work is the same sort of work, or can be treated as the same sort of work, or can be payed by the same wage scale. When in fact, what one person considers to be hard work, another may consider to be slacking off. Such as the opinion blue collar workers have toward management staff.
Thus the third fallacy of communism is that all work is equal.
Finally the largest fallacy in the ideology of communism is to exclude the entrepreneurial class and the natural cycle of wealth propagation within capitalist free society.
There are two basic types of people in society. Those who create wealth and those who consume wealth. Wealth creators are the most important class in any society, because without wealth the society is nothing.
The innovative entrepreneur sees what is, and what could be. He invests his time and resources into turning his unique and fresh ideas into physical reality. He then designs (or pays someone to design) a production system whereby many objects of relatively small value come together to create something of much greater value.
This is wealth creation.
For example: a piece of farm land in a drought stricken country may be virtually worthless. The farmer sees no value in it. But the entrepreneur comes along and puts a theme park on it. And suddenly the land is of great value. All the individual parts of the theme park and all the labor involved in constructing it are still less than the net sum worth of the theme park company after 10 years of operation. This is an example of real wealth creation.
So the entrepreneurs are the wealth creators. But who are the wealth consumers? Government and organized crime.
Government taxes people, companies and legal entities. Taxation is used to fund the public sector. Taxation is a zero net sum game. The government does not create wealth, it simply moves it around, and ultimately consumes it.
This final point is the most clear cut explanation of why communism always leads to poverty. As you grow the public sector, taxation increases. As taxation increases wealth creation decreases. (Because why would you bother building a theme park if you didn't get to keep the profits?) As wealth creation decreases the overall wealth that exists in the country decreases too. Until the government has no money, the people have no money, and everyone goes hungry. Soviet Russia.
In short: government and organized crime (often the same thing under different names) is to blame for most of the trouble in the world NOT capitalism. Capitalism is freedom. Communism and any form of Statism is a disguised form of Surfdom.
