too many factors here issues here to really make hard conclusions.
just know I think you're off that deep end.
ignoring the proven history of collectivism and genocide is very dishonest. but think what you want. its a free country, due to high levels of individualism.
The worst mass murder events all have a common theme, and it's really not Collectivism.
It's subservience & military supremacy.
It just happens to be the Individualist Western Europeans & Collectivist Mongoloids fit this bill of subservience & military supremacy so often.
The more Collectivist Europeans to the South & East have done far less genocide, than the more Individualist Western Europeans!
Why? Because South & East Europeans tend to have had smaller militaries & less subservience than the West of Europe, this however excludes Russians who are part Finno-Ugric (Mongoloid) by genes.
People often cite Nazis & Soviets, as Colkectivist mass-murderers, well let me ask you since Russia's government has gone far more Capitalist since the fall of the Berlin Wall, is Putin anymore peaceful than say Kruschev of the Soviet era, or Gorbachev?
I mean Putin's Russia mass murdered Chechnyans & Ingush, and Syrians too!
What about Germans? They mass murdered people as Capitalists in WW1 too, using mustard gas against soldiers, killing perhaps 10 - 15 million Europeans, maybe better than the Nazis, but then again, Germans have always been one of the most mass murdering powers in Europe, they did so in the 30 Year War, the biggest European mass murder event before the World Wars, they did so the Northern Crusades, and the Wendish Crusade & Rhineland Massacres!
But, I think subservience is the biggest factor, because Poland was once a military powerhouse in Europe, and they didn't commit wholesale mass murder like that.
But, if you watch closely, Poles aren't subservient, they are rebellious towards authority. They were very rebellious towards Nazis, and Soviets too... Today they are rebellious against the EU & Russia.
They certainly haven't complied with the West's action for EU refugee quotas.
100's of thousands of Poles demonstrated against Islamic refugees, just like 100's of thousands of Poles demonstrated against Soviets a few decades earlier in Polish Solidarity.
huge militaries result from groups of individuals abdicating their self defense to a central authority which gets drunk and psychotic on the power.
we already addressed this.
the world would be safer and there would be less genocide if we had no standing armies, but all individuals could own firearms and castle doctrines were universal.
Last edited by Hermes Thoth; 08-14-2020 at 08:33 AM.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Hermes Thoth (08-14-2020)
Truth Detector (08-25-2020)
It's a necessity since you can't get most, almost any, people to voluntarily act altruistically all of the time. Collectivism requires this. People are not ants and will not act like ants. Thus, the Marxists running the show in a Communist state have to resort to application of force and continuous surveillance to ensure the population is doing 'the right thing.' Of course, the leaders not being any more willing than their subjects to be altruistic, immediately give themselves a greater share of the wealth and live comfortable lives even as their subjects suffer in deprivation, poverty, and want.
Instead of altruism, people become lazy, indolent, and slothful under Socialism and Marxism. Why try hard, work hard, or be creative when it will only be taken away from you? You get the same amount doing little or nothing.altruism
[ˈaltro͞oˌizəm]
NOUN
the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
"some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism"
synonyms:
unselfishness · selflessness · self-sacrifice · self-denial · consideration · compassion · kindness · goodwill · decency · nobility · public-spiritedness · generosity
Truth Detector (08-25-2020)
Not a Communist, but support a mixed economy.
Still, I think Communism is better than Libertarianism.
Also, the benefits of Capitalism are exaggerated.
Take Russia it's now in a lot worse shape than it was before the Soviet Communism collapsed.
First off the Soviet Union according to this graph kept up with the USA in real wage per capita GDP.
https://voxeu.org/sites/default/file...rrisonfig1.png
Second off the Soviet Union since the fall, has seen 90% make less real wages, while 10% made much more real wages.
https://meduza.io/image/attachments/...XoneGGWZ6g.png
Third off modern Russia has far more immigrants, than the Soviet Union had.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illega...tion_to_Russia
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...093306298.html
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/...redicts-a64706
Forth off the Soviet Union saw much more patents than modern Russia.
Truth Detector (08-25-2020)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Truth Detector (09-04-2020)
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