Every political or economic system I know of could work quite well, if all the participants of that system would come with the required charactetistics.
Capitalism could work, if no one was a reckless greedy asshole.
Communism could work, if no one was a powerhungry reckless asshole.Democracy could work, if no one was a reckless powerhungry greedy asshole. Heck, even a dictatorship could work, if the dictator was benevolent.
All of those systems are doomed to be exploited because they don't take humans as they are and try to make the best of them, but because they always require some ideal circumstances, which are hard to achieve and are in practise not sufficiently widespread.
There are modifications to all of those systems, to make them work better. For example, humanistic capitalism. But still, there is no perfect system yet.
It seems that the best we can do is to create a system with self-correcting mechanisms incorporated, such that all the good and the bad of humans are taken into consideration, nurturing the good and reducing the bad. Democracy comes close to that, as it allows, discusses, demands and implements change and makes this process accessible for everyone. Still, it has it's own pitfalls and I am not sure whether a single democracy exists that actually works well.
Communism is when my uncle was killed for dissent. You want social democracy, not communism
The fact that this has 600+ upvotes is... major fucked up.
EDIT: the image is tagged "@proudSocialist". Any "proud socialist" would know that socialism and communism are not the same... Wow...
EDIT 2: If this gets more downvotes than upvotes I will gladly leave Lemmy. Have at it. :)
How can communism deal with the food per total human issue without people managing that based on their own effort and resources and self-determinstion? Has the centralized planning leads to starvation problem been resolved now? I am not being sarcastic and am open to persuasion. Our current system is a disaster but it's not clear to me how communism can deal with problems of motivation, allocation, and resource management to avoid mass starvations.
Every single fucking time: THIS IS THE FUTURE UNDER COMMUSOCIALMARXISM!
endless pictures of current capitalism conditions, usually centered around homeless people
Yeah, it sure is a good thing we have capitalism to make sure that every person is taken care of and nobody gets fed to the orphan grinding machine.
It isn't the boogyman you need to worry about, it's the bougie man.
Kirby would never say that!
He would say poyo
There’s a whole social psychology regarding perception management. If you want this idea to catch and snag more people, then substitute “the working class” for communism.
This also sets home the correct idea that we are in a class war right now. Most rules that don’t favor working class are intended to funnel more money up instead of to the people making the work happen.
Fucking labels. I have done the research on communism, socialism, capitalism, authoritarianism, Buddhism, taoism, etc.
Not a single real life person I've ever interacted with matches up with these labels. My personal experience with tankies (another label I don't get besides being in specific dumb instances) almost messes with that but nah.
I decided that I'm a member of one place.
Humanity.
