I'll be talking about Communism, and Capitalism (I realize this is obvious). When I say something don't tell me I'm wrong or interpreting incorrectly. I have read "The Communist Manifesto," and other Marx papers. For this reason I am not completely pulling this stuff out of my ass, only partly, and plus my opinions compared to everyone elses are far superior. Think of it like this, my opinion is like Christianity, and yours is "another religion". I put quotes around, another religion, because we all know non-Christian religions are fake(footnote 1).
According to Marx,"Capitalism" is were the "means of production" is kontrolliert by "The Bourgeoisie"(Footnote 2). I took two years of German, thus I can translate. Translation: Capitalism is were the arbitration s regarding newly assembled opulence are executed in an oligarchy consuetude (IE: CEO's, or stockholders). "Communism" is the exact opposite. In Communism decisions involving what is done with newly created wealth are made by everyone who participates in its direct creation.
I'm posting an example of the above definitions. If you don't want to read it then skip this redundant repetitious annoyance, and pitiful excuse for increasing my word count.
So for example in a "Capitalist" society the CEO of a company decides were all the wealth that the company creates goes, and what that wealth does. In a communist society every worker who directly contributes to the production of that wealth would be in the decision making process.
End of example.
Under that type of Communist system people can still be richer then others, this seems to contradict the idea that Communism is a classless society. This contradiction is only so if you distinguish class by wealth, which is not how Marx did. Marx distinguished class by how much power one had. The major unequal distribution of wealth was believed to be a result of those with power, using that power to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Does that sound familiar to some quote involving corruption and power? (the answer is yes, but if you say no then rethink the reasoning until you come up with yes.) Communism is and never was a system that took money from the rich and gave it to the poor. It takes power from the powerful and gives in to the weak. That's all it is.
Democracy, is a system of governance were every citizen has a say(IE vote), most people generally praise democracy. Communism sounds a lot like this thing we call democracy, because communism is basically democracy spread to the micro-governments of society.
Now some tool(person who argues with me) might say, " Businesses aren't governments." To refute this I'll pull out my 23rd century dictionary Buisnesses equal governments In the dictionary every pertinent definition of government makes a business a government.
Having a democracy is a good thing, but to me it is not the most important. The only real measurement of a society is it's coolness factor. The Soviet's had Cuban cigars(+1coolness) and kroficans(footnote 3)(+1coolness), but America has Primetimes(+2coolness). The fact that both have a "+2coolness," means I can't determine which is hipper, and can't even begin to speculate. Ergo no one can.
I remember in some science class we read about how some kook once yelled, "give me liberty, or give me death.(footnote 4)" Therefore this kook would rather die then be subjected by others. Basically the ability to do something with out outside interference is what liberty is. Thus in Communism there is more freedom, because everyone has the ability to decide what is done with the wealth they helped create. The average workers (whom outnumber the CEO's by a big number) have more freedom, but CEO's have less. Take note though that all freedom isn't good, for example the freedom to kill someone. This statement makes "freedom" a very subjective word, in the terms of good, and bad. The question is, is it bad freedom for workers to have the same freedom as CEO's, or is it good freedom? I am to lazy to answer so some one else can do it.
After writing all the above, my friend who was looking over my shoulder told me it was all irrelevant. (Apparently everything I just wrote was a waste. I won't delete it, because I want you to waste your time as well). Elizabeth Harper (footnote 5) (my friend) further explained that the number one priority is money; people only want to know what will make their living standards improve.
Elizabeth Harper then proceeded to kiss me. I had to throw her off in order to finish this drawn out diary. What she had told me mad be realize that the system that is more efficient economically is going to be the more liked one. Empirically it is going to be hard to declare which one is more economical, consequently each side has a different ideology that makes them believe their system is better. One side believed that two heads are better than one, and that business would run better if more people were able to help make decisions. The other side believes that the CEO's would make better decisions by themselves (footnote 6).
Footnotes
- Basically this whole paragraph is a joke. I say this because I realize not everyone can see it through their computer screen. They must have bad eye sight.
This footnote is a joke as well.----- Sadly this footnote is not a joke. or maybe it is... I can't decide.
- Google has a language translator that you can also use to translate the German.
- Kroficans- This is just a bunch of letters I randomly typed out.
- This is the date The BigMac was invented. It was manufactured due to the fact that no one could give Henry liberty, so they bestowed his 2nd option.
- Hint: She was the hottest wife of the Democrat presidential candidates
- There are probably more ideologies and beliefs (etc) and a lot of inbetween, but I decided to put it simple.