What is your opinion about Communism?

[Anomalocaris]

That's an impressive bit of revisionist history of capitalism.  Communism as an ideology is no more or less organic or pragmatic..and it seems silly to insists that the public ownership of the means of production didn't preexist it's codification as a political ideology.  It was the natural state of human beings for so long that it became entrenched in our sipirutal ideologies...simply awaiting revival and exploitation.

If the above can be used to defend capitalism gone wrong..it can just as easily defend communism gone wrong.

Personally, I;m not interested in defending one ideology over the other.  I don't think it can be done, all things considered.  I suspect that we'll see our love of capitalism as a temporary and unsustainable fetish in the not too distant future.  I think, between the two, -as another poster touched upon...we have to determine what it is we value about some x to determine which tool is best suited to the job.  There are already things that we don't think capitalism is the best answer for, even in our deeply ideologically friendly country.

Really?

There is no such thing as the natural state of human beings. Natural states of human being are all states in which any human manage to find himself.  One might say a more typical natural state would be a state which occurs with greater frequency in a particular condition.  Typically states which occur with greater frequency are those in which larger societies tend to find itself because that state arise from a more competeive social structure that have out competed other alternative possible structures.  The state of collective ownership is uncommon amongst Iron Age cultures or later, which implies it is uncompetitive and therefore less typically natural in the post Iron Age environment.

In so far as it is “entrenched” in our “spiritual ideology”, the spirit stems from the awareness that most people have a below average share of the total society’s resource, and ideology says “I’d be richer now if everything is shared evenly”.