30 Nov 2023 6:03 pm
Glad you read it. Many people just skip.Cannonpointer » 30 Nov 2023, 6:13 pm » wrote: ↑ Yeah, good OP. I'd have nominated it, if it hadn't been a cut and paste. It was a great read.
Marxism was summed up by one of the experts on Marxism - a guy named Marx - in this way: From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.
And therein lay the failure of Marxism.
1. The creed makes need a rewardable virtue - which by the transitive power of happy horse **** makes competence a punishable vice.
2. People are able to produce more than their needs. They can produce their wants - and people tend to want, as well as need. Unchievable wants = unhappy people.
3. In a world where the horde gets only what it needs, while producing to the margins of its ability, there will be spoils. And where there are spoils, there is cause for war.
I like to do summaries, but don't want to make it mundane. Even more mundane is the visual, but those are eye grabbing.
I like your three points.
And I neglected to post the source. I will find it.