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Originally posted by madp
Quick points:
1. My wife and I are both highly educated and "enlightened" folks (heck, we even have subscriptions to Harpers and The Economist!  ), and we only agree on about 60% of the "big" issues. What makes Mr. Communist think that an entire nation of human beings will suddenly be in agreement on ANY of the big issues, much less all? Will we all become homogenized clones?
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It is not a case of making people clones, it is a case of SOLVING the big problems. There is a huge degree of political argument today because capitalism is a flawed economic and social system that creates many problems for people - exploitation, domination, racism, sexism, classism, nationalism, pollution, religious intolerance...
Nearly all of the things we argue about politically are things caused by the fact that capitalism is not working.
We will abolish nations, and nationalism.
All forms of mass prejudice (ie prejudice against social or ethnic groups) will be abolished.
exploitation, opression, dictatorship and the brutality of the state (especially the police) will be abolished.
In communism, the big issues have all been solved, the only debates are matters of organisation. We will have debates about how resources are organised, about how they are allocated, to which project, to which research...
These will be healthy debates, and all the more healthy because each person has equal access to the floor, to the power to make the decision...
In communism your wife and you might argue about whether the social organisation should build build a park or a road in this or that place, or about whether more money should be invested in conquering space or abolishing disease, and so on and so on... these debates may well be passionate and lively... but they are not confrontational - because we have solved the real problems, we have all agreed that communism has given us the solution to the problems of managing the government and the economy of this plannet
Those who do not agree with communism will be forced BY THE SUCCESS OF COMMUNISM IN EVERY ASPECT OF SOCIAL AND MATERIAL LIFE to commit themselves to the cause. Not by brute force, but by education and example, only the insane could wish to go back to the capitalist system.
You and your wife will not be arguing about the fact you have too much democracry, that the means of production have been placed under too much democratic contol, that communism has created incredible advances in techology... you will not be arguing against the revolution that all sane men and women will love and cherish.