[ExI] communism/authoritarianism

[William Flynn Wallace]

That's the same logic held by people who follow Carl Rogers, who advocated
raising children with complete unconditional acceptance.  Yes,
unconditional - no matter what they do, you accept it.  Way beyond
ludicrous. Nobody could do it if they tried.

My original question did not stir up much response, so here's a quiz:

1 - would you rather live in a country that was communist but not
authoritarian?
2 -or in a country that was authoritarian but not communist?

id est - which is more abhorrent?

Number 1 is probably not possible.  No, I am not going to put a 3 -
neither, because everyone would choose that.  bill w

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 3:57 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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