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it is true that people who have lived in a capitalist system will find it hard to adapt to an entirely new concept - and right now standing outside of that new system, it is hard to grasp at all - but human nature is flexible, and the way people behave under one property system is not the way they will always behave.
People adapt, and when we have the new system in place of communal property (although there still may be private possessions), people will get used to it a lot faster than we imagine I think. As hiredgun, children are not born with any conception of private property, they will grow to accept a communist world as normal just as easily as some accept a capitalist world - the value of capitalism are not inherent human values, they are just the values that this system of ecnomy fosters and rewards.
And Endymon, I understand what you are trying to say, and I did try to explain to you the problem - that you cannot make a new society based on faith, or will, or even the intentions of the people, the economic system must be changed, the method of production will always deternine the type of society that exists.
Harry, I think your experiment sounds great, and it certainly is tempting, but as you found, it is difficult to make communism that way, inside of capitalism and when you are surrounde by capitalist values and conditions.
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