>>13709775But what you're saying is exactly what I mean?
I'm saying that -communism works in theory-. The communistic model -only- works in theory. It only works if you have perfect humans with perfect understanding, perfect motivation, perfect utilitarianism empathy and a perfect adminstrative system.
Communism cannot work in the real world. It's just incompatible with reality.
It's an optimistic dream and only a gullible romanticist would think it could work in practice.
>>13709806Regarding your post, I think we're partly in agreement. I'm not talking in absolutes. By "working" I mean "Hasn't catastrophically collapsed yet". This is in comparison to other historical implementations of economical systems.
I know about regulatory capture and the other plethora of weaknesses and relatively minor failures of corporatism and capitalism. Regulated capitalism works to a certain extent but is vulnerable to many corrupting influences. Fact is that it does work to some extent. Again, I'm not speaking in absolutes, in the last decade alone economic crisis and corporate fuckery has been abundant despite this. But regulation -does- often mitigate the potential for exploitation to a degree.
What the future will bring considering globalization, automation, corporate consolidation and the stagnancy resulting from corporate takeover of emerging niche markets I don't know.
But one thing is likely to never change; humans do what benefit themselves - that is why corporatism and capitalism will survive and function (for a given value of function and depending on your definition of "function) as long as human nature is unchanged.
