Those are leaders that did genocide, not a property of communism. You don’t need to do genocide to have a communistic system. Communism was the first economic strategy humans did. It worked just fine without genocide.
Also this is a category error. It’s like if someone claimed that capitalism is genocidal. No, it’s not. Capitalism like communism is a method to distribute goods and services. Neither have anything to say about genocide.
I am not advocating for communism right now. I don’t even know how we would make that work given the size and scale of things. I think fascism is a more pressing problem right now anyway. But I think in the future if it seems like we can make something work that looks a bit like communism and it is better than capitalism and we can remain a democratic society, we should be open to it.
I think a nice functional mixed economy is fine, with private property and competition and self regulating markets along with consumer protections and safety nets for poor people and people with mental health problems.
oh definitely, regulations are for sure needed in this. As for the aplication of pressure on the economy, ideally that’s what tax cuts would be good for, like universities don’t have to pay taxes because the government has valued education and wants to support it. The problem with this is that lobbying can get the govt to give more tax cuts than are needed, and the richest get to pay vastly reduced taxed
Yeah thats where the regulations come in. Tax cuts can be used in situations when a country needs to strategically boost some industry, like during a pandemic, temporary tax cuts on vaccine makers and related industries would help make the vaccines faster.
mao, Stalin ect
Those are leaders that did genocide, not a property of communism. You don’t need to do genocide to have a communistic system. Communism was the first economic strategy humans did. It worked just fine without genocide.
Also this is a category error. It’s like if someone claimed that capitalism is genocidal. No, it’s not. Capitalism like communism is a method to distribute goods and services. Neither have anything to say about genocide.
i see what ur saying, but litlery every implementation of comunism ever has been with an authoritarian govt and that doesnt end well at all
I am not advocating for communism right now. I don’t even know how we would make that work given the size and scale of things. I think fascism is a more pressing problem right now anyway. But I think in the future if it seems like we can make something work that looks a bit like communism and it is better than capitalism and we can remain a democratic society, we should be open to it.
I think a nice functional mixed economy is fine, with private property and competition and self regulating markets along with consumer protections and safety nets for poor people and people with mental health problems.
Sounds good, but I do think we need to give the government power to regulate industry and apply pressure to direct the economy generally.
oh definitely, regulations are for sure needed in this. As for the aplication of pressure on the economy, ideally that’s what tax cuts would be good for, like universities don’t have to pay taxes because the government has valued education and wants to support it. The problem with this is that lobbying can get the govt to give more tax cuts than are needed, and the richest get to pay vastly reduced taxed
Yes, also, telling companies that slavery is bad and they shouldn’t do it. I’m not sure tax cuts would be powerful enough to handle slavery problems.
Yeah thats where the regulations come in. Tax cuts can be used in situations when a country needs to strategically boost some industry, like during a pandemic, temporary tax cuts on vaccine makers and related industries would help make the vaccines faster.