(11-06-2012, 03:05 AM)FireIceTalon Wrote: Gee, lets get our crystal balls and take a look, shall we?
Someone needs a crystal ball, here, but it isn't me.
You make extraordinary claims about the *effects* of Communism. What a miraculous system it must be, creating world peace, ending hunger, banishing discrimination of all kinds, ending inequality, increasing welfare, and the list goes on and on. Everything bad about the world today, is fixed in your magical system. You claim you can "see" this - you don't roll your eyes and make sarcastic remarks at these claims, even though they are in the future.
But you refuse to make any serious claims about the *functioning* of Communism. How do we get from where we are, to all these wonderful results? How are they maintained, once we get there? Who can say, you reply? Some unfathomable arrangement of "material conditions." This part of the future, apparently, we can't see. All we can be confident is that the results will be amazingly awesome; how we get there is up to history.
You are not imagining a functioning economic system, or a social order. You're imagining a utopia. I'm asking you how on earth it's supposed to work, and you have no idea, only the unshakable conviction that it will be awesome. This is a New Jerusalem.
-Jester