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Originally Posted by peter12
EXCEPT, we have clear evidence that when societies are left alone from government intervention, we have increased productivities and better outcomes for everyone in that society. There is no evidence of communism working on a social scale.
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I guess my problem with this statement is that we could see a paradigm shift if it ever does work.
Sort of like how the political science and security studies fields had a huge shift in paradigm after the collapse of the SU.
All historical evidence suggested prior to the SU collapse that when empires collapse they do so violently. After the SU collapse the field had to re-evaluate their assumptions about that topic because of the peacefullness of its collapse.
Unfortunately in Poli Sci, most of our assumptions are based on the past and predicting the future. Since we cannot predict the future, the best you can do is say that SO FAR communism hasn't worked. You cannot however say all communist governments lead to dictatorships, even if all of our examples up until now say that they do.
Keep in mind I am not suggesting that they haven't led to dictatorships in their EXTREMELY brief history, just that to make a blanket statement like that, especially from a political scientist is irresponsible.