(March 11, 2022 at 2:14 am)JairCrawford Wrote:(March 11, 2022 at 1:56 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Fiscal conservatism doesn't necessarily pertain to spending. It's simply about avoidance of state debt. A full blown communist society (that taxes and spends a ton) could be fiscally conservative.
Based on my very, very limited knowledge of the subject, I was under the impression that communism aims for cashless society, as in, no currency.
That's one of it's supposed goals, in a utopian sense. I don't think such a thing is possible. Anything that is widely valued could count as money.
The basic goal of communism is that the workers own the means of production. You could attain that and still have money in your society.
Also, just to clarify what I said before... I realize that fiscal conservatives often focus on spending cuts. And in that way, reductions in spending are part of fiscal conservatism's platform. My point was, if you consider their end goal (no state debt)... such a thing could (hypothetically) be attained in a socialist or communist state. (I made it sound like fiscal conservatism and spending reductions are like apples and oranges. That's not true.)
