[ExI] communism/authoritarianism

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:19 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I don't think it's merely a
> matter of in theory communism is X but in practice it's Y.
>

It is.  Lots of people have attempted the "but true communism has never
been tried" defense.  In almost every case, it devolves to, "this is what
'true communism' breaks down into when attempted".

Physics has something similar with perpetual motion machines and Maxwell's
Demon, if one does not accept the laws of thermodynamics as a prior
postulates.  "But why can't I just decrease the entropy in a closed
system?"  Or, more directly, "But actually decreasing the entropy in a
closed system has never been tried.  Sure, there were all those efforts
that said they were going to, but they didn't actually do it, therefore
they were not actually examples of this."
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