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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Why are you wasting your time arguing? Just point him to the clear-cut example of where your policies where implemented - the Soviet Union. Pay according to need, as opposed to profession? Check. Research and government spending allocated according to what's best for society instead of those pesky market forces? Check. It was all a resounding success. Check and mate, my friend, check and mate...
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The way Soviet-era communism was ran is not the only way to do it. Just like the way the US runs it's free market isn't the only way to do capitalism. There are things in between. It's a spectrum, not a set of 4 or 5 points with hard and fast rules.
That said, I do think that ACTUAL communism (IE: not dictatorships under the guise of communism) has a much better chance of working with the way our technology has developed to this point. You wouldn't have the problems of lack of types of food like fruit and whatnot, because that stuff can all be done locally using indoor farms, information is so shared that there wouldn't be discrepancies in what we "have" vs what "they" have. And honestly, in order for something like communism to truly work, it would have to be a global system, because any country adhering to it on their own would have to isolate, which is obviously not only impossible at this point, but beneficial for no one.
I'll just sit here and wait for McCarthy to come handcuff me.