[ExI] don't let your guard down, not for a minute...

[samantha]

 On 9/10/10 4:13 PM, giovanni santostasi wrote:
> I agree that on the book communism is a far superior social
> organization than capitalism.
>
Based on what exactly?  On what "book"?

> Capitalism has exploitation as a key element by design.
>
False.  Only freely entered trades and other contracts are allowed.  No
initiation of force including fraud is allowed.

> In a way the fact that many people enjoy a modest level of benefits
> from capitalistic society is 1) the result of non capitalistic forces
> achieving rights for the individual 2) a clever form of exploitation
> similar to the roman emperors slogan "give them bread and
> entertainment and the people would be submissive". It simply makes us
> better consumers to be given crumbles of the big pie so we happily
> exploited and manipulated.
>

Empty assertions with neither argument or evidence.

> Of course, so far any  real mass-scale communism experiment has failed
> mostly because has been hijacked by tyrannical figures that used
> communism as a cover up.
>

Or it is broken by design as I and many others contend including many
who are former communists.

> Communism is a very idealistic approach to society, that if maybe
> unpractical (at least given the level of development of humans at this
> point) shares a lot with the transhumanist ideal of life.
>
If the "ideal" is not at all based in reality then how can it be ideal
for producing the best living systems of real human beings?  A system
that would work only for some poorly defined quite different beings than
what humans are deserves scathing contempt - not admiration.

- s

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