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Old May 15th, 2003, 05:32 PM
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Default Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.

Tbontob, there is no way to have a "theoretical communist" government. Marxism in practice will naturally flow towards either anarchy or Stalinism, because the theory of Marxism is inherantly flawed. It's flaw is that it fails to account for the fact that it must be administered by human beings, and human beings are inherantly flawed. We are greedy by our nature.

A system such as capitalism assumes this truth and uses the inherrant nature of the species as a check and balance agaisnt it's baser tendancies. Yes of course there are plenty of examples of corruption but they are the exception rather then the rule in a truely free capitlaist economy. They result from fallible humans attempting to control market forces, which goes against the capitalist principle, instead of "letting it be".

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