@default_friend testing your theory
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Tho if every single person in your system is voluntarily participating that's actually pretty cool good job
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I believe communism would work, and even be the optimal system, if every member was selfless to the extent they prioritized community over individual. But unfortunately this is just not human reality, and likely never will be.
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*On a large scale I should add. We have see many occurrences of communist like systems working to great effect in smaller communities.
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Yeah, all it takes is someone with a power hungry attitude in a position of leadership to ruin it. Theoretically, you could limit them with a constitution, strong term limits, etc, like the US constitution should do and it might have a chance at working.
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Every system can be taken over by a ruthless leader, no matter if it's a liberal democracy (USA, Brazil, Poland, Hungary), a communist grassroot revolution (Cuba), or even an elected-king situation (the Vatican / papal history is... interesting).
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The underlying problem with communism is that it doesn't account for people's inherent greed and/or territorialism. Communism is really just tribalism on a grand scale. It works better in groups of 150 not so much when you're talking 150 million
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No, the problem with communism is it usually involves state power - which is the opposite of community power or tribal power. If we remove the state we would be left with free assemblages of people that would still form systems of mutual aid, aka socialism.
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"Communism would work as a political system if none of the challenges that necessitate having a political system existed" - replies, basically
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