Reply #11: Communism fails, for everybody except the oligarchs who rule [View All]

[bherrera]

It has been analysed by many experts, the way communism fails. It has several serious handicaps. For example, the marxist belief that value derives from labor, not from the value assigned by the market (those who want to pay). Marx also suffered from a very serious flaw when he assumed thinking and creating were not valuable work. This is why communist societies do not do very well in the creativity field (see the way Soviet Union computers were stone age relics compared to computers used in Europe). An additional problem, which was pointed out by Heinz Dieterich to Fidel Castro, was that a command system where there is only one party allowed (in Cuba only the communists can organize in a party), leads to a system in which individuals join the party to gain power and material benefits, not because they believe in communism. Also, because the system becomes repressive (there is no dissent allowed), those at the top lack the ability to understand when things are not working well.

The sum of all these fundamental flaws makes the communist system an archaic failure. And this is the reason why nations which become communist do change eventually, and the leadership tends to be anti-communist. When given a chance, most communist party members in these repressive societies do not join the communist party, for example when the German democratic republic fell, 95 % of the communist party members refused to join a communist party, and instead joined social democrats or right of center parties.