Why communism is not possible

- the false allure of communism

Jurij Fedorov

Definition

- the idea and the implications

John Stuart Mill in Principles of Political Economy (1848) said:

It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended is that they will thenceforth stagnate; will not exert themselves to improve, and by letting their faculties rust, will lose even the energy required to preserve them from deterioration. Competition may not be the best conceivable stimulus, but it is at present a necessary one, and no one can foresee the time when it will not be indispensable to progress.

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Explanations and references are under all slides. They are there for the narrator or the reader.

What is communism?

No clear definition or description exist of communism as it is just a weak hypothesis and not a measurable fact or even a theory. But the best descriptions of communism can be found in:�

• The Republic - Plato (380 BC) - first ever description of communism and a specific one at that.
• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx (1848) - the description of communism that communists themselves typically use.
• Communism: A History - Richard Pipes (2003) - a description of applied communism.

“Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.” - The Communist Manifesto�

Main points in Marxism

• The dominant forms of communism are based on Marxism, but non-Marxist versions of communism (such as Christian communism and anarchist communism) also exist.�Communism: a stateless, classless and moneyless society, structured upon common ownership of the means of production.
• Socialism: first step towards creating communism. The dictatorship of the proletariat.
• The state owns everything. (socialism)
• Everyone owns the state. (socialism)
• Communism is an utopia - everyone is supposedly happy and everyone is equal and everyone has and can get what he/she needs.
• The utopia concept means that communism is supposedly the perfect society and cannot be improved upon.
• Capitalism needs to exist before socialism can be created as communism needs a lot of resources and knowledge to exist.
• Start a war and then a revolution against the bourgeois/the rich. Take over all production.
• Confiscate the emigrants and rebels property.
• From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
• Against family as in nuclear families.
• No heritage.
• No free companies and no wealth.
• No countries.

”In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” – Marx, 1886

Main points - implementation

• A revolution is required for a change in our political system towards communism. Democratic socialists may disagree.
• The first system will be socialism where a minority starts and leads the foundation for communism. Later they will (in theory) give up their power and the world will become communistic.
• In socialism everything is state owned and everyone is rewarded according to their contribution but not yet their need. The state will therefore take everything from the rich so as everyone will become equal.
• The change will be created by proletariat/workers whose conditions got so bad that they have no other option as to work together and overthrow the government and the bourgeois/rich people.
• Marx main point that he based his theory on is this hypothesis: Historically the bourgeois always takes advantage of the proletariat - it’s a fight between 2 groups.

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” – Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich, 1848/2002

Critique of the description of the theory

• Vague and just a philosophical concept.
• Does not explain how it will work in real life.
• Does not explain how it has to be implemented in real life or exactly how the transition will be.
• No good reason given for it to be implemented.
• No science supporting it but much science disproves important communist concepts.
• No calculations and no mathematics explaining why it is good.
• Too simple an interpretation of history which ignores most of the dynamics in our society.
• Goes right to the hypothesis without giving reasons for it or giving a reason for its moral foundation.
• At first Marx used hard science. When disproven he started using unfalsifiable and untestable soft science with new hypotheses.
• Marx hypothesis about populations have been proven wrong so the basis for his hypothesis is wrong.
• Marx points about the proletariat getting poorer every year was proven wrong even at the time when he wrote it. Wage rises, and does not fall, for the proletariat.
• Class evolution does not exist. No basis for saying that bourgeois and proletariat have historical fights. His main theory is based on faulty assumptions.
• Class solidarity is weaker than solidarity between many other groups: kin, religion, nationality, race, sex, age, geographical.
• Class is not a homogenous concept.

- ignores basic needs and oversimplifies things

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Critique of the description of the theory - market and money

• The economic calculation problem proposes that prices are created by demand. Without supply and demand mechanisms you will not know how much to produce, how much it has to cost or how much to pay for it. Impossible to coordinate production.
• No supply and demand means that a state decides what to produce and how much it will cost.
• Production value is not just workload but demand from the consumer too. This means that supply and demand has to be a factor for paying employees. Therefore your labour worth is subjective.
• Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals.
• Proponents of chaos theory argue that it is impossible to make accurate long-term predictions for highly complex systems such as an economy. Every person has her own needs and they need to be heard for the system to work.
• The only variable is production capital. Ignores the worth of ownership of the production apparatus in the production.
• Capital is the product of workers labour, together with that of the employer and subordinate managers, and of the capital employed. Not just the workers labour.
• Bourgeois are sacrificing the money they could be using now for investment in business, which ultimately produces work.
• Ignores the strive for power, not just wealth. This cannot be fixed.
• Gives no incentives for work as money is removed as an motivation.
• Does not say how it plans to take the capital from some people or what the reaction will be.
• Does not say anything about what ownership abolishment will imply. Can you own your own clothes? Your own car? You own house? How will people react when they loose own their possessions?
• No theory as to how resources will be used when there is not more than enough wealth to go round.

Implemented communism is different from theoretical communism. But implemented communism always has the same traits and the same problems. So no matter how you plan to implement it it will always amount to the same thing. I will explain why that is later in this slideshow.

“The Communist party must control the guns.” - Mao Tse-tung

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Critique of implemented communism - country

• Implemented communism is not and cannot be theoretical communism and vice versa. It changes and adjusts to the conditions given - and they are always the same: Homo sapiens.
• Communism in countries is always a military dictatorship in real life. It is not possible to implement it by other means.
• Socialism has never become communism in any implementation of it. And Marx idea of how it would be in real life is wrong.
• Every implementation has always gone wrong in the same way.
• Communism is tried in countries where people can understand the concept but not yet understand it to a degree that they can disprove it.
• Communism goes against peoples will it does not support it. This is why the implementation has to be forceful and can only be achieved with great force.
• Communism is bad for the proletariat and terrible for the economy.
• Communism is much worse for the proletariat than liberalism is.
• Communism has killed more than 100 million people and brings death to wherever it is implemented.
• The history of communism is the bloodiest history of any idea except religion.
• Inequalities in communist countries for power, wealth and status are greater in communistic countries than democratic countries.
• Every communist country will always go bankrupt and become a democracy/liberalism/capitalism.

“Stalin is our greatest father and teacher.” - Mao Tse-tung

Critique of implemented communism - free will

• Requires strong coercion to be implemented.
• Too much and too strong state control. Creates a new aristocracy and a new monarchy.
• Leaders remain in power and take advantage of their people (the iron law of oligarchy).
• As the state does not have a counter power in the regulated market the state will become very strong and the politicians will have a lot of power which will corrupt them.
• Communism requires that everyone has the same goal and the same interests but we don’t. We bargain and fight for our interests but would not be able to do so under communism.
• Bureaucracy besides totalitarianism is needed as a control factor to control people from acting naturally on their basic needs.
• Bureaucracy is always the thing that ruins every communist country.
• Small scale communism can exist for some years like in Kibbutz. But when the children grow older the families want to live in houses, own cars, and get jobs. That way they can raise their own children and make sure that their own genes get the best possibilities in life for gaining resources, status and therefore reproduction.
• A very rich man created a communist village in USA which had big social and economical problems from start to finish.
• Does the end justify the means?

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“Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!” - Che Guevara

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Critique of implemented communism - not explained

• Socialism can be accomplished only through class conflict and a proletarian revolution. This idea is even rejected by some social democrats. And many of them reject the transition state too.
• Class mobility and wealth is now so common that a class against class struggle does not make much sense.
• Not working for your possessions makes you undervalue their worth. There are many studies on this subject.
• The economy always tanks under communism as communism removes the motivation for working and producing as you gain nothing by producing more.
• Would lawyers, leader, doctors etc. work 70-80 hours weeks if they get payed the same no matter what?
• How will you make people do boring jobs that need to be done?
• How will the state calculate peoples contributions under socialism and then needs under communism?
• Who will do the less prestigious jobs and why?
• What will stop you from taking and then not giving?
• Unworkable economic system.
• Brings: inefficiency, slavery, cruelty, tyranny, inequality and concentration of power and wealth.

… continued later on…

“We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.” - Che Guevara

Fail percentage = 100% . Every single tried implementation of communism has gone terribly wrong, dead wrong.

This is a combined map of all countries that declared themselves socialist states under any definition, at some point in their history, color-coded for the number of years they claimed they were socialist:

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Over 70 years

60–70 years

50–60 years

40–50 years

30–40 years

20–30 years

Under 20 years

The real life experiment

John Maynard Keynes referred to Das Kapital as "an obsolete textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the modern world"

A speaker tells his listeners, "The communist ideal is already on the horizon."

The audience silently wonders, "What IS a horizon?"

Answer: An imaginary line where the sky comes together with the earth; it moves off into the distance when you try to get closer.

“The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!” - Che Guevara

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” - Mao Tse-tung

Communism has both been used as something

symbolizing evil and something symbolizing

utopia. But why is that?

Natural selection

- is communism theoretically possible?

What is true?

• Gene selection by natural selection.
• Natural selection is random variation but survival/selection of the fittest. Trial-and-error.
• We are just organisms created to transport and propagate our genes. The genes will survive, we are merely their temporarily transportation.
• A part of natural selection is sexual selection. It is the selection of the perceived fittest by the opposite sex. This arms race makes the selection process faster by keeping up with the environmental changes with the same tactic.
• The sex that puts the most energy in the offspring does the selection. So not all males are selected and will therefore have to fight each other to be selected.

”The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.” – Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich, 1848/2002

What does the truth mean?

• The wall between genes and environment, or nature and nurture, does not exist.
• Everything humanly possible is inborn. Environment is how genes survive and reproduce we are created to adjust and evolve in specific environments.
• Homo sapiens is a young species and in the future we won't be Homo sapiens or even Homo. We will become another species. We could fly or breathe underwater or become super organisms like ants - even though it is not likely.
• There is no point and no moral. We just are. Things just are.
• Is is not ought.
• How things are is not necessarily how we would want them to be. But some things are impossible or go against our inborn needs and wants.

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What about or brain?

• Our brain consists of thousands of modules that have evolved to solve specific tasks in our environment.
• These modules are formed to adapt to our current environment or appear later in life. And heritage/environment can therefore not be separated.
• Instincts are what human life consist of.
• We don’t see the world as it is. Our perception was selected to perceive things as it was advantageous for us to perceive them.
• Some animals can see colors we can’t see or hear sounds we can’t hear as these perceptions are necessary for them to survive.
• Our sociality selects a bigger brain. This brain is so big that we are born prematurely and weak which demands the care of 2 parents and a family. Men are now needed in child care and equality between sexes is greater. Men put resources in the offspring and are now becoming more choosy and go after the more attractive women. Brainpower is now very important.
• We have hundreds of different biases. They are great for survival purposes in small groups but are not necessarily useful for living in large groups in a modern society. Many of our instincts are very harmful for us in a modern environment.
• And these mechanisms are biasing our science - mostly social science. Good science and good theories will need to take account of bias/perception bias.

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“To read too many books is harmful.” - Mao Tse-tung

Heritability for intelligence

• Some things are “genetical” and can therefore not be changed at will by an outside system.
• With age genes determine more.
• Males have intrasexual fights to be able to reproduce. This creates many differences between the sexes. Differences we cannot change via environment. But many more differences between sexes, groups and individuals exist.
• Intelligence (IQ) is a factor that can statistically predict later socioeconomic status in life. Which means that class structures in our society are partly inherited through our genes - and not just monetary wealth or power.
• Looks are inherited too. And rich alpha males can select the best looking females. Looks also positively correlate with SES. And height in men positively correlates with SES too. This inheritance communism cannot stop.
• Genes are passed on and fit genes are then acquired by the whole species. They cannot be shared with the group in one lifetime. Differences among groups and individuals have to exist for adaption to take place.

Genetics

• Even though all Homo sapiens have some traits and behaviours in common we are also different from each other.
• We have different tactics for different scenarios and people have different ways of handling problems. It depends on your genetic disposition and your environment.
• One single problem solving tactic would not fit all.
• Parental influence and shared environment influence on many factors is close to 0%.
• A political standpoint is 50% inborn. You can statistically with a high probability guess how a newborn will vote even if he is adopted to a random family.
• Supporting communism is not a conscious choice as both genes and environment will influence it.

Nature

• Correct universal morals do not create the perfect political orientation.�Correct universal societal morals do not exist.
• Your political orientation is inborn and made up by environmental factors that make you behave in a certain.
• Voters are irrational.
• Hunger by not having eaten for a while will make you vote for the more social party.
• The candidates height will influence votes.
• Physical strength will make your political moral more extreme.
• The current number of shark attacks and if your football team won or lost influences votes too.
• People support a party partly to show support to the party.
• Knowing the party behind a proposal will make people think longer about the proposal before deciding what to vote on it.
• People are more likely to vote for a proposal from their own party. No matter what the proposal is.
• Even judge rulings are in a big part influenced by how long ago they ate.

Voters are irrational

• We are social animals and have the same social mechanisms as our family, the chimps.
• Social animals require a big brain.
• Mechanisms for cooperating, for detecting cheaters and for cheating.
• Kin altruism and reciprocal altruism created by selfish genes.
• Altruism brings with it in-group, outgroup and war and racism.
• Theory-of-mind to guess and know what other people think and feel.
• Sociometer theory is that we base our self-esteem on how we are perceived in the group as getting kicked out of the group could be fatal. This is used against you by politicians and leaders.
• Indirect reciprocity theory is the fact that you are altruistic onlookers will like you and help you.
• Costly signaling theory is when we help someone or support a good cause to show that we have resources, are good hearted and are powerful.

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We are created by a...

Tit-for-tat is a winner - repay the cooperators act.

Game theory

The strategy “bourgeois” is a winner - always attack when your territory is transgressed. :-)

Regulated market/liberalism = the invisible hand.

- how altruism was born

The choice is already made for you. How did the blue pill taste?

Who will live and who will die? You decide?

Axelrod is right - get rich or die trying, by cooperating.

Leda Cosmides: Sometimes you have natural experiment like the Berlin Wall where you have West Berlin and the East Berlin - huge differences edged in stone between 2 philosophies - 2 social philosophies. That was a real experiment.

John Tooby: The idea of socialism is derived back to the sharing level where people cared about you. But its delivery in a mass society... the people making the decisions don't know about you. Don't care about you. And in fact it's the only thing they're supposed to view as important - what good are you are to the social system.

Leda Cosmides: ...and that's why it always sounds nice prospectively but turns into a hell on earth when it is actually implemented.

John Tooby: Historians will write about all sorts of things without thinking it is necessary to understand economics so they make all sorts of conclusions about economics without...

Leda Cosmides: ...people will think it's okay to run for public office without having ever taken any economics. Without having any knowledge about how markets work. Its amazing - shocking. It's shocking.

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The definition of genius:

Group selection of genes is not possible

• Group selection implies that the group is one unit that survives and reproduces and that no individual can prosper by going against the group symbioses.
• For communism to be true group selection would have to be the selecting force in Homo sapiens.
• Influential group selection is theoretically impossible for any organism.
• Working for the state and not thinking of your own needs is group selection. Which is impossible.
• There is no way for group selection to select genes.
• Groups can be selected for but an organism in that group will never be selected for altruistic traits with no individual benefits.
• Cheaters are not stopped if we try to force communism as a group selection on our society. To stop cheaters we need cheater detection mechanisms and punishment mechanisms. But how do we know if anyone is actually working as hard as they can and only spending what they need to spend? Sexual selection is still going on so becoming rich will get you selected - which makes you cheat.
• Social loafing is cheating the group. But it’s not always on purpose or even known. So how do you find it or even punish it?
• Any cheater will have an advantage. In a society where everyone is a sucker(dove), cheaters(hawks) will trive.
• Groups and countries act like individuals. But they are individuals where every cell can prosper by itself.

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” - Che Guevara

SSSM

• Cosmides and Tooby described the anti evolutionary psychology science that rules universities. Standard social science model where people believe in the blank slate.
• This model is created for people who want to believe in change and that unfairness is socially created and can be changed.
• A big part of this group are communism. People who believe in change.
• Feminists are part of this ideal.
• Evolutionary psychologist are against this idea as it goes against evolutionary science.
• Nothing can explain how a brain can evolve all at once with nothing in it. All other organisms with brains or even without brains have mechanisms that respond to the environment.

Natural selection critique of communism - kin selection

• Natural selection is a proven fact so a theory that goes against natural selection must be wrong.
• Organism work for survival and reproduction of their own genes. Their own genes exist in themselves and their kin.
• Leaders will in theory rather keep the power and make sure that their kin inherited it.
• Ingroup and outgroup are inborn mechanisms in us. We will always have a ingroup we support and trust and an outgroup we don’t trust - every social organism has these.
• You will love your own offspring more than random offspring. Communism cannot have different forms of love it can only have 1 equal love for every human being for the group.
• Cheaters need to be found and stopped for any system to function.
• Or natural way of living is not communism. Communism is an arbitrary concept. Therefore communism has to be forced upon us with great power as we will always oppose it.
• As communism is arbitrary and unnatural for us we have to force it upon us and our government and make everything bureaucratic to an extreme to make sure that no one cheats or gains.

“I fired a .32 caliber bullet into the right hemisphere of his brain which came out through his left temple. He moaned for a few moments, then died.” - Che Guevara

Natural selection critique of communism - questions

• We are different. Good football players have talents and earn a lot because they take advantage of their inborn talent. Even if we have the same economic means we are not equal.
• How will we remove our inborn talents? Will the best football players have to play with very heavy shoes?
• Females instinctually select leaders, the riches and the best. How will we stop intrasexual competition? How will we stop alpha male vs beta male inequality?
• Would you rather be more popular with the opposite sex or at the same economic level as everyone else?
• What will become of our race if an arbitrary political system forces us to select bad or random genes?
• How will the government or the production of merchandise be effective and produce what we need if there is no competition and only 1 huge monopoly?

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If all we all lived by the principles: "Give to everyone

according to his need" "Do onto others as you would have

them do unto you" "Behave in a way that maximizes the

greatest good for the greatest number" then it would

benefit us all. It would eliminate all war and crime, and

the money we saved on the war would go to improve our

standard of living. Unfortunately, it leaves room for

scammers who would exploit the system. Since our

individual gene reproduction is the goal/point in life.

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How can one build a system where all as far as possible are free, work according to their ability, and where cheating and social loafing does not destroy society?��Well, it is possible!

Homo sapiens

- why was communism created? How do Homo sapiens live naturally?

Hunter-gatherers

- the way of life we are created to live.

“But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.” - The Communist Manifesto

Hunter-gatherers. The way of life we are created to live.

• You are a part of a whole. A part of a group. A part of an ecological chain. And your religion is about this fact.
• Share rather than own - both possessions and land.
• The dominant cultural ethos was one that emphasized individual autonomy, non-directive childrearing methods, nonviolence, sharing, cooperation, and consensual decision-making: council communism. Their core value, which underlay all of the rest, was that of the equality of individuals.
• Gift giving is something you learn from an early age. Give and demand a gift in return. This creates an egalitarian in-group.
• Relying on the fact that there is always enough food supplied by nature gods. Do therefore not save or accumulate things.
• You work 3-6 hours a day and have a lot of leisure time.
• Both sexes have their valued place in the supply chain. Men are strong hunters and hunt in small groups for days. Women collect vegetables and take the children with them.
• Meat and forced sharing it is essential for creating an egalitarian culture. And vegetables are about 50% of the nourishment.
• Nomads, travelling and building new camps to get to a new productive territory - possessions are too heavy to carry along.
• Children, old people and those who will not work often receive the same amount of food as everyone else. You share food and love to share and thus be social and in a close bonded group. Every now and then people will be left out of the society.
• Prestige and honor is not in owning but in sharing. The best hunters are still the ones with the best looking wifes and the ones remarrying.
• Polygamy is not unnatural. But our main way of life seems to be social monogamy. Hitting wifes is not uncommon.
• You can do everything yourself. No prisons means killing the insane or men who do not follow the rules or endanger other people.
• Groups are very small about 25-30 people live together near a source of water.
• We have about 150 people in our circle of acquaintances. You can travel between the small groups.

“Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.”

The u-curve explained

• We lived in a somewhat egalitarian society after living in a more violent chimpanzee like society for million of years.
• Then we became violent...
• Agriculture made certain men accumulate power and other men miss out on it.
• Agriculture made our workload go up as we could now accumulate wealth and useless things just for the prestige and status they bring us. This status is then exchanged for mating opportunities.
• Agriculture increased womens suffering - and beta males were suffering much more now.
• Males could now work together with other males and take advantage of outgroup males.
• Agriculture made the alpha male much more powerful and polygamy became a bigger part of a society as a man could protect and feed many more women and children.
• Over 150-200 people in a group meant that our brains were not created to socially keep the order in the group. And arbitrary rules and leadership had to be created/taken. Several hierarchical levels needed to be applied.
• Bigger groups create competition between groups and living in a big group is now a necessity for protection.
• The modern society raised the curve and we are now becoming more egalitarian again.

The u-curve examples

• San Bushmen of Africa were only hunter-gatherers and they lived in an somewhat egalitarian society. There was a gender work distribution and both sexes controlled some part of the food chain and both sexes therefore had power.
• It seems that foragers in rich environments with a lot of food don’t learn to share between themselves and become more fierce.
• The somewhat agricultural Yanomamo were the fierce tribe and lived in very big groups. The had widespread polygyny and would even attack and hurt their wives if they didn’t what was told. Yanomamo were fierce because fierce men and tribes killed the other tribes of and survived. Attacking other tribes was mostly done because they wanted to kidnap women. A fierce man would seduce many women. Being fierce means that you are violent and can break many social rules. Leaders are leaders because they have the support of their brothers and people they have given wifes too.
• When competitors change we have to adapt. We sacrifice small very social groups for more resources as these are the new way for acquiring power, dominance and mating opportunities.
• A modern society is based on morality doctrines, science, instinctual groupings and common sense. Utilitarianism is an accepted part of our ways.
• Capitalism/liberalism are now making sure that trading is a better choice than attacking. The invisible hand is now the norm. The u-curve have been raised without communism.

“In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.” - The Communist Manifesto

What about different wants and needs?

• Some people want to own a lot.
• Some people want to work a lot.
• People are different and have different wants and needs. How will a political system give you enough freedom to pursue your wants and needs?
• Different needs and competencies create different ways of getting different resources. These resources will then be traded between people. Differences can create altruism.
• For example: different gender roles in our species made sure that we could get more resource more effectively from our environment. While Neanderthals probably could not (as one hypothesis goes).

How much communism is actually possible?

“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on.”

What is somewhat communistic in real life?

• Altruism. Kin altruism and reciprocal altruism are evolutionary concepts.
• San Bushmen share food and feed the hungry if they are part of their ingroup and therefore considered human.
• San Bushmen don’t fight other tribes. But they still need to punish in-group cheaters.
• Cults and religions and secular religions like communism are trying to force the individual to work for the group and not for himself. The group will usually have a leaders that will gain a lot from this form of life.
• Ants, termites and bees are super organisms where 1 single organism is a part of a bigger organism which is also considered 1 single organism. The single ant will therefore not reproduce itself and will die for the group so that its genes can be reproduced by the queen. They could be said to be more moral than us in-group. But they are ruthlessly fighting other colonies that are separate organisms.
• Bonobos have the non-family structure that Plato and Marx wrote about. Females rule. They are calm as they always break the tension with sex between any 2 individuals. They don’t know who the fathers are and the whole group raises the offspring. But they are still not egalitarian and are violent.

"The private and individual is altogether banished from life and things which are by nature private, such as eyes and ears and hands, have become common, and in some way see and hear and act in common, and all men express praise and feel joy and sorrow on the same occasions." - Plato

“Wonderful theory, wrong species.” - Edward O. Wilson

Z: “I'm supposed to do everything for the colony. What about my needs?” – Antz, 1998

Then what is communism in real life?

• Communism is an inborn need for a certain way of life where our norms feel fair.
• This life is the life that we are programmed via evolution to live by naturally.
• This life will not be in nuclear families but in families in small groups where you can always travel between small groups also if conflicts occurs.
• Everyone has to share or gift many things. It is the social norm. Gift giving will then have to be repaid with gifts. This creates a better sociality/ingroup.
• Things like meat will be shared with the whole village and all visitors.
• No one will own any land and only have a few possessions that he will often trade or give away.
• No police and no military as the groups are small and without leaders.
• Everyone needs to defend his own honor/territory in forager societies. (this is more liberalistic than communistic)
• Anyone taking and not giving will be disliked. (not a communistic concept)
• Anyone taking more than his share or having a lot will be disliked. As Homo sapiens can throw rocks and don’t need to be dominated by an alpha male all the time. (not a communistic concept)

Forgot your theory-of-mind?

We always need something in our life to stride towards. Being part of a group gives us meaning and is necessary for our survival.

Politics

- what does all this mean for our society theoretically?

Moral concepts

• Some moral concepts are inborn and some moral concepts are arbitrary.
• For example moral concepts about incest are universal and therefore not 100% arbitrary.
• The idea of communism is created on the basis of a both inborn and arbitrary moral concepts.

“To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is therefore not only personal; it is a social power.” - The Communist Manifesto

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith has criticized communal forms of socialism that promote egalitarianism in terms of wages/compensation as unrealistic in its assumptions about human motivation:

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This hope [that egalitarian reward would lead to a higher level of motivation], one that spread far beyond Marx, has been shown by both history and human experience to be irrelevant. For better or worse, human beings do not rise to such heights. Generations of socialists and socially oriented leaders have learned this to their disappointment and more often to their sorrow. The basic fact is clear: the good society must accept men and women as they are.

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The Self-determination theory proposes that we have 3 basic needs that need to be fulfilled for us to be happy and work from self motivation and not force. This kind of work is more creative, open minded and flow is better for our health and happyness.

Self motivation or force?

”It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.” - Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich, 1848/2002

Moral stage 4 is possible for Homo sapiens. But stage 5 and 6 are only theoretical and have never been observed in real life.

• The concept of religion we had in hunter-gatherers societies is the concept we try to recreate though SSSM, religion and communism.
• We are born to create meaning in our life. We can only see what we are born to see.
• Bias is survival and reproduction.
• We are an extremely social animal which makes us automatically create arbitrary mental ideas of groups and humans.
• We perceive our in-group as good and our out-group as bad - automatically.

”That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.” – Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich, 1848/2002

“Animal Farm” explains implemented communism

• The horse works hard. Working hard is something that is sexually and naturally selected even in an egalitarian group. Someone has to be taken advantage of in a communist society. Someone has to work harder if some are to work less and profit more. Otherwise a society cannot sustain itself. Either black people, animals, other countries or something else will be taken advantage of so as we can live less demanding lives. Is it communism if something or someone is taken advantage of so you can prosper?
• Napoleon illustrates the god-like dictator and the ruling class that takes advantage of the rest of the animals.
• Snowball illustrates the continued fights between in-group and out-group. Communists, feminists, Christians, Muslims and other groups will fight among each other as -isms are strong religious or secular religious concepts with specific in-group concepts with splits in the groups to gain power.
• The cat does not work. The cat takes advantage of the system and just lives free. It values its own needs over others and understands the system and its faults. But even though the cat knows that people suffer it does not care.
• The sheep follow the leader blindly.
• The dogs are the army and the police force controlling the population that wants to be free and egalitarian and not communistic. Animals need to be controlled to keep them from seeking their own way of better survival and reproduction. Communists do not like the military or the police force.
• The swine become people as the leaders of communist countries always remain in power and are corrupt. It is human nature. Therefore killing of leaders and taking power will corrupt again - no matter what your well intended philosophy is.
• Orwell also wrote the book 1984 which illustrates how it is like to live in a communist country under constant surveillance by Big Brother.
• HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a very short story inspired by communistic concepts.

"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" -

George Orwell, 1945/2000.

All the 3 main religions are based on The Old Testament. All religion is adapted to environment. If environment changes religion adapts. You can see how both the Old Testament and the Quran adapt and change to their EEA. Both books started of with many gods but then removed them from the books. Both books write about fighting and killing their enemy - when the writers were on the powerful side. And the chapters about peace and cooperation are from when the writers were on the weak side.

• We have 2 extremes.
• Communism is just one of the extremes.
• But both are equally bad for individuals and groups.
• Both are unnatural for our way of life and can only be achieved by force.
• Status quo is for the ones having power and change is for the ones not having power.
• Haves want protection of resources: military, police, strong cultural value, a right way of doing things.
• Haves not want to acquiring resources from the haves: helping the poor, sharing resources among all, give power to the ones not having it.

Capitalism

• Democracy/liberalism/capitalism are different ways to say “regulated market”.
• Capitalism only describes the free market while liberalism and social liberalism describe a regulated market controlled by the state.
• An inborn feeling of unfairness will occur if some have more than others as it is unnatural for us.
• Capitalism/free market does not feel like a perfect system as the strong will acquire power. Just as nature intended.
• Capitalism is by many used in the definition of a free market - but state control is needed as centralised power in companies or in the state corrupts.
• Capitalism is the best possible system. But control is needed as power needs to be diluded.
• Regulated or free market is the only possible system for anything.
• USA is a telling example of an even extreme form of capitalism working.
• The Scandinavian economical system seems to be the best functioning political and economical system - but it is far from perfect. Equality is very high but people still live in nuclear families and many are still lonely, single and have a hard time living in a modern world with all their EEA instincts. Scandinavia is social liberalism it’s the golden middle way. But still they consume more than the land can produce and poor nations must be taken advantage of - it is not sustainable.
• As communism demands capitalism before the revolution I would argue that the best way to get communism is to vote for the parties that will help companies and the hard working people the most. Communism is not a system where the workers change the country as fast as possible. It’s a system where the proletariat can take a lot of resources from the bourgeois in a state where there are more resources than can be used. Something they can’t do if you try to create communism from scratch.
• To live in a perfect system people have to create their own groups and their own family that they will live and work with.

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it” - Thomas Sowell

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” ― Ronald Reagan

Is the world fair? Is the moral concept of fairness arbitrary?

“It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.” - Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich, 1848/2002

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“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.” - Fran Lebowitz

• What is our political answer to unfairness?

Do you feel like communism is here to save the planet and the human race?

”They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property.” - Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich, 1848/2002

Design principles for Common Pool Resource (CPR) institutions

Elinor Ostrom identified eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management:

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• Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties);
• Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions;
• Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;
• Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;
• A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;
• Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access;
• Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities; and
• In the case of larger common-pool resources, organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.

Taking of the glasses and changing into capitalism

• Several former communist countries are becoming more liberalistic as is the natural way of being fit. Humans strive towards power and freedom.
• They need to make their market more free to be able to compete with other countries and have something to sell them.
• This means that former communist countries are becoming richer. But the ones without top down leadership are becoming richer faster.
• Russia is now on some parameters more capitalistic than the USA. Capitalism in Russia has made people rich but a tax of just 13% is not high enough to support the now smaller but still significant poor population.
• China is now becoming a capitalistic country too. China is building infrastructure in Africa and investing in countries all over the world. They will soon become a much bigger economy if they make their market even more liberalistic.
• China is playing Sim City and selects the best people and genes via groundbreaking science and builds cities in days.
• Politics is trial-and-error. And real life experiences have been shown to be better for the proletariat than just theories based on arbitrary moral concepts. As a society is too complex and fast changing system to “solve” by a simple theory.
• Some of these moral concepts imply that some people are worth more than others.

“Competition may not be the best conceivable stimulus, but it is at present a necessary one, and no one can foresee the time when it will not be indispensable to progress.” – John Stuart Mill (1848) The Principles of Political Economy.

Selected like organisms - the fittest survive.

• How can we all survive on such a small planet?
• We can’t… it’s the tragedy of the commons.
• But we can enjoy the present and outcompete our neighbors.

• Will we be able to create an arbitrary superorganism before it is too late?
• Some calculations say that we can only be 2 billion people or less in existence for the planet to be sustainable. The may be nearing the Malthusian catastrophe.
• Leaving our solar system is theoretically impossible.
• Who will we kill and who will we select for?
• Will the best looking and most intelligent be selected for survival?
• How will all countries agree upon killing the unfit members of society or stop reproduction?

Working Men of All Countries, Unite!