: Very good question! IS IT GOOD???? I would like Nat and all those other capitalists answer this one becuase all they seem to argue is that it would not work.. but wouldn't it be great??? YES it would! It would be wonderful! It woud be uthopia! it would be paradise...Actually, Marx himself warned against promising utopias. You see, one of the principal problems that Communist (not communist, these haven't existed yet) systems have had have been that they have worked along a 'the ends justify the means' ethic. The problem is, any system that promises an utopia is often willing to take to inhuman means to get there, and I suppose none of us want Tjekas, KGB and Red Khmers running about again.
Communism is not an utopia, it is an alternative to capitalism. It is, however, not just a political system. It is a complete philosophy, with a set of ethics, a socio-economic theory and a metaphysical theory (materialism). And I don't believe these things can come without each other, which for example the Soviet Union proved. They attempted to carry out the socio-economic theory of communism, but the necessity ethics that are required for communism to work is what they left out.
A true communist or socialist system requires the workers to be absolutely and totally informed and free. According to socialist theory, freedom is insight in necessity, so a society of free workers would furthermore rule out Turner's example with the workers craving a tenfold increase in wages - if they are truly free, they would know that society would collapse under that and they wouldn't know it.
I am for a form of communism. However, I stand against the totalitarian Communist regimes (even under Tito people 'disappeared') that have so far existed because they do not take with them the entire communist philosophy. Furthermore, I must warn against any utopias - as I said, a system that promises utopia rarely has any problem using inhuman means to get there.
"If this is for the good of all, I do not care whether the Tjeka's sword hits an innocent head or two."
-Feliks 'Iron-Felix' Dzersjinskij, head of the Tjeka secret police under Lenin's period
