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some things are truly priceless:

communism is the closest economic system from the homo erectus and its descendants. for them, ecomony is a kind of zero-sum game: if one wins, another one loses; once the game is distributed it can's be killed again; there is no possible life outside the tribe, or the clan.

now recently came a new economic system - the capitalism - which shows that every one can win without anyone losing. such a system is, obviously, against the human nature. any primitive man would know it. communism is a system that appeals to the primitive man we all have inside of us.

(said by some guy named joao p; not me, mind you)

this is wrong all the way. the reason why communism failed all the way was precisely the fact that it is against the human nature. human beings prize things like freedom, property, possession. we like to own things, be those things a piece of land, a house, a pencil or some hot chick (even though in this case it is not clear who possesses who). communism is the denial of all that. everything is from everyone. one decides what is best for everyone. and the proof is, all communist attempts were based on force, and kept by strenght of arms.

another pearl from the same clam:

if it is only an utopy, then why shall it be fought so fiercely and with so much hatred? about freedom, reality is quite different: there is no freedom as long as there still is exploitation.

(said by roberto)

exploitation? in capitalism? sure. there is exploitation. the difference is, there is also choice. i work in some place, and i trade my work for an ammount of money i think it is fair; if i don't find it fair, i can try and negociate. if it doesn't work, i can leave and find another job that suits me better. the problem with the industrial revolution (and nowadays with china, for example) was that there were many workers for few job assignments. so one couldn't really deny a job because one wasn't paid enough, because there would be someone who wouldn't care about that. china faces the same situation nowadays. those who work in factories are underpaid and their life conditions suck balls, all right. but it would be far worse if they were back to the rice fields. so they chose to go to the factories. we've all been there some years ago, but memory is in short supply in the twenty first century, it seems.

in a communist system, what would i do? i would work like a fucking slave for a "common good". hell with the "common good". i care about my own good. and if i do it, and if everyone does it, we'll be working towards that "common good". read this for further explanations.

besides, if i get paid for my work, i can pay for the work of others. it's called 'trade', and it has several millenia of existance.