[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.
Craighead, Scot D
craighead.scot at vectorscm.com
Fri Mar 29 00:10:00 UTC 2002
>Desires beyond needs are not addressed.
Is that a good thing? Who gets to decide what someone needs? If you have a
10 foot by 10 foot room with a toilet, sink, bed and access to a public
bathroom to live in, are your living needs met? Do you need music? Do you
need art? Do you need dental care? Who decides in your perfect communist
leaderless world?
>Well, "Marx was a communist" is a sort of tautology. I mean, he invented
>the damned thing and defined the word to reflect his own views.
>
>However, I think you're working from your own skewed perception of what
>communism is and applying that definition back to history.
>
>You can't look to any establishment of power and find a definition of
>communism. No communist order has ever risen to power because power is
>contrary to communism.
>
>Again, read Capital. And for a description of the mechanics of
>progressive politics and why it does not prevail against regressive
>structures of wealth and power, I recommend H. G. Wells' The New
>Machiavelli.
True communism is an ideal that can never be achieved. It expects humans to
act against there basic nature and if they don't, it completely falls apart
into a brutal, horrible police state. That is way most of us look at the
former soviet union or the current Chinese government as communists. They
have achieved all that can be achieved with that form of government.
>In essence, the Constitution was written by rich men, for rich men. The
>Bill of Rights was an attempt to prevent the public from getting TOTALLY
>screwed by the rich and powerful. Any destruction of the rights
>gauranteed by those Amendments is a blow to equity and a benefit to the
>rich and powerful.
Your arguement is circular. First you say that the constitution protects
the little guy from the rich and powerful, then you say it is written by and
for them.
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