Yes! Because socialism and communism mobilizes societies resources for the common good, strives for equality and solves poverty and unemployment problems. Also the living proof is that Communist China is the leading world economy.
But… Communism with its rigid centralized system of government tends to breed corruption that creates the inequalities that it has proclaimed to be fighting against. Also, communism and socialism tend to stifle innovation - the iPhone was invented in America - but, of course, is made in China. On the other hand the Soviet Union beat America to space.
Communism is an old idea - since the time of Plato and Aristotle, even Jesus preached against private property. Still it has too many weak points and it is free markets and democracy that have brought humanity prosperity and technological progress (and that includes China).
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-really-want-a-socialist-or-communist-country-Why/answer/Alex-Great-5
First,
I thought communism was good and capitalism bad.
Then,
capitalism is good and communism bad.
Democracy and market forces should take care
of that….
And
that seemed to be so true because then we won the Cold war – Soviet style
communism crumbled under its own stupidity eager crowds dismantled the Berlin
war and turned the pieces of the hated barrier into souvenirs – under the
sounds of Pink Floyd singing “break down the wall…” Then the US bombed the
Serbs!
Then
NATO didn’t disband and kept going for no obvious reason. Then the Chinese
communist system managed to bring their country out of poverty to the leading
position in the world economy.
Then America is in multi trillion-dollar
debt…
I still believe that it’s not by the
benevolence of baker and shoemaker that we enjoy prosperity and that we have
those inalienable rights.
What I don’t know is – what went wrong?
I know Marx does – he was confident that it was the ownership of the means of production that was the problem but while that does seem to be true with China’s success and the recent economic crisis triggered by US financial institutions it doesn’t seem to explain everything. Communism did fail in Russia and Eastern Europe.
At the end of the eighties things were crystal clear: communism lost, capitalism won and we will all live together happily ever after in material abundancy and liberal bliss, at last.
Now thirty
years later the Chinese Communist Party has declared victory over poverty while
in the US the middle class is slowly withering away while the media is increasingly
turning into a propaganda machine of those in power.
Not only is
the trend pointing to China becoming the #1 economy in the world but the US is
foolishly isolating Russia (and increasingly the EU) thus pushing them to look
for more reliable friends in the East.
How did
that happen? Why? Can we do anything about it? Perhaps organize a demonstration
on Tiananmen square or march on the Capitol or the Kremlin, or maybe break down
the Berlin wall (that’s already broken) but we can always try the Korean
demilitarized zone? Revolution? I hope
that will never happen because revolutions usually hurt the innocent and cement
the power of the corrupt elite.
I do
believe in unity in diversity. That we the people can and will unite and
acknowledge that everyone has a right to an opinion (and that means everyone
including those you don’t like or don’t agree with) as long as that opinion
does not involve hate, or planning to harm someone, or planning to coerce someone
into changing their opinion or choice. And that unity will bring reason,
stability and abundance.
You may say
I’m a dreamer but I hope I’m not the only one….
