If Communism is all for one and one for all, then how come people think of it as evil. And how does north korea work with Kim Jung il runnin the show?
P.S. all hail red china
- laughingcorpse
Teachers Note: Due to the way this question is worded, some of you may not initially see the relevancy. I ask those of you responding to put the TOK twist on this... How do people use the WoKs to come to personal conclusions about Communism and its role as a political system? -- Mr. Malone
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I agree with Deep there, this really has no relevance to TOK as presented as you have written there. I write mainly to correct your understanding of communism. In no way is it an all for one, one for all situation. Communism encourages a dedication of the self to the rest of humanity, and that no man shall have more than another. However, it is applicable to sense perception if you ask the question: WHY do so many perceive communism as an evil; what cultural influences affect our understanding of the ideals set forth by documents such as The Communist Manifesto and why won't Americans in particular attempt to understand the ideals presented?
The point is not whether or not communism as a system will work or not, it is rather why we see it as evil. It is a utopian society, and as such is good by definition. Unfortunately, every time a nation has tried to implement it, it has gone awry. I think the main reason that people are so against communism is not that it won't work, just that the superpowers of the world today don't want it to work. This, in itself, makes it impossible for any society to become truly communist, because every other nation is going to do everything they can to stop it from happening.
This is also a large part of why the people of the world look down on communism. They use their emotions about things associated with communism today (death, revolution, backwards, isolated, etc.), their perceptions about how the communist system worked out in the past (badly - much dying), their knowledge of it as a system (it shows no intention of working), the ideas advertised to them by their governments (commies are evil), and their built-in tendencies due to their life in a capitalist nation (greed) to come to the conclusion that communism is obviously an evil thing and that it'll never work.
Our governments manipulate us into automatically dismissing communism, playing off our emotions and need for knowledge to market capitalism to us.
So don't submit to their will. Don't automatically dismiss communism as being unable to function. It can. It's just never been given a fair try.
Silly capitalist "democracies". See what they do? They not only brainwash you into thinking you are actually accepted as an "individual" in their society, they PROFIT off of it. Go to church! Give them money so more people can come and give them money! Go to Wal-Mart! Give them money for the things you want! Buy a house and give other people money for telling you which house to buy! Buy, buy, buy! Sell, sell, sell! But only what we tell you to buy! Whoopee!!
Excuse me - Human individuality is now based entirely on what they have? What?!?! And that argument doesn't even hold up against communism - I hope that it was a joke - because in a communist society, everyone has anything that could make them a happier person. And what does democracy do any better than communism? Um....exploitation. Hmmmmmmmm.....
Oh, and it's not democracy in general, it's just the democracy that we - The Americans - are spreading throughout the world like the contagious disease it is. Capitalist democracy. Beurocratic, greed-driven democracy! Whoo-hoo! I mean, who doesn't like exploiting cheap labor overseas so that we can have WalMarts and get everything for a little less money?
And why on earth wouldn't everyone in the world want to be a capitalist democracy? We would be able to "help them get on their feet" and profit off of that change. Then we could make them only trade certain items with US!!!! YAY!!!
So, as I said before....
Capitalist Democracy is just anti-Communist because it would show the rest of the world how corrupt their rotting system is.
The above comment by the Prophet of Gaoism shows this quite effectively. Hopefully it was intentionally that way.
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