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Originally posted by Axo1ot1: Pure communism has never been practiced on a national scale. What they have in china is more like socio-fascism. There is nothing wrong with the idea of communism. It has never been given a fair trial. |
I think that is why it is so popular with students- it sounds so fair and wonderful. But it doesn't work in real life, except maybe on a very small scale, such as villages, because it doesn't have enough checks and balances and is painfully easy to pervert. Witness China and the Soviet Union, where the ones in power had lots of goodies and the others didn't and had no chance for it.
Pure democracy doesn't work well either. Human nature doesn't permit it.