Originally Posted by Matterhorn Originally Posted by

I always hear a lot that Communism is a great form of government on paper but will fail in real life. This is completely stupid. It's terrible on paper, and should be erased from the government choices. It promises spreading wealth and demanding equality to the masses. This may work if everybody, say, in a small community (note the similarity in the words community and communism) wants it, but in a government can't work. There's a reason why America is the world's only superpower and the USSR collapsed. Now if you look between the lines of Karl Marx' Communist Manifesto you can see why it would fail. If Communism grows beyond a few people it requires a massive amount of government and a mass amount out of power in the leaders to make it "work". With all the power a leader can, per say, kill 20 million of his own citizens (Stalin). Now Communism can supply you with the needs in life like heath care, a job, food. But it can't give you your wants, and also denies you from getting those wants. In America you can make it big by your own hand. You can say Capitalists are just greedy, but a nation cannot prosper if all of it's citizens are poor. There is also a reason why so many people tried to escape the Soviet Union. A free market system will beat a Communist system 100% of the time. Look at it this way, the far left has been responsible for way more crimes than the far right. I agree with Calvin Coolidge that there needs to be as little government as physically possible. It should only be there to help you in times of extreme need, provide diplomacy, and defend its people. Democrats and other people on the left and far left say that the government needs to have a stranglehold on its economy. All the time I read articles of small business owners complaining that the government only gets in the way. It will never help. That's why Communism just sucks. Do you really want to look back on your life and say, "well...I got everything I needed." Here's a question, would you rather poor in America where you have rights and can do anything in your power to get rich, or poor in the Soviet Union, where you are damned to your life of poverty by the government with no real rights, and you can't do crap to get rich?