Communism and the Left

[kandrathe]

While clicking on a video link, I saw this interesting feed and wanted to share it. Honestly, if FIT were not part of these boards, I doubt I'd even care, but his devoted one sighted nature is so baffling to me, we'll let me just say that I really enjoyed the simplicity of this video and how it touches on how ardent deniers of the atrocities of communism talk about the "perversions of true communism" as if communism has never been attempted before, as if democracy is 100% the same in every country. Give me a break. The atrocities of what Communism represents should be known. ...

Or, ask why the communist Owenite community (1825–1827) in the USA built by Robert Owen at New Harmony, Indiana failed 90 years prior to the Russia Revolution.

It's pretty simple in hindsight. Everyone has their own ideas on subjective concepts, like "Equality", "Value", or "Common good".

Josiah Warren wrote of New Harmony, "It appeared that it was nature's own inherent law of diversity that had conquered us ...our 'united interests' were directly at war with the individualities of persons and circumstances and the instinct of self-preservation... and it was evident that just in proportion to the contact of persons or interests, so are concessions and compromises indispensable." (Josiah Warren, "The Motives for Communism – How It Worked and What It Led To – Article II," Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, IV, 15 (Feb. 24, 1872).

It is pretty clear (historically) that a society based on "sharing" is only feasible in simple societies, like a tribe, or in larger ones using totalitarian violence to enforce the dictators philosophy.