The GOP Has Been HIJACKED!

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-02-2016, 03:19 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Communism is in part a promise to get even faster economic growth than capitalism can offer because the Communists will invest more because they will cut out the profit of entrepreneurs and big land owners. Nazism promised work and (allegedly) the pay top go with it.

That's the promise.  That's the theory.

In practice, the communist party is just another set of ruling elites, no better and in some ways worse than the capitalists.  The Nazis in practice weren't that different.  They did what they felt like doing and didn't stop short of the Allies wiping them off the map.  No checks and balances.  You want checks on the power of the ruling elites, which Communism and Fascism do not provide except for violence.  Democracies have the ballot box, bills or rights, independent judiciaries and such like, which are better than nothing but quite arguably not truly effective.

The basic principle is that without firm and functional checks on the ruling elites, they will siphon off far too much of the wealth and power, crippling their own culture.  It's easy, I would think, to see this in Communists and Nazis.  I see much the same thing happening with the Reagan Unraveling memes.  If the elites dominate a culture, no matter what style, philosophy or excuses that they spew, they will exploit the culture to death.