Communism (was: main list Snape posting)

[Mira]

--- saraquel_omphale <saraquel_omphale at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Is Communism in itself evil, or is it the way that
it 
> is interpreted and put into practise that is evil? 

I'm replying to this on the OT list, since it does not
have anything to do with HP (that I can think of).

It depends on what you mean by Communism. If you
resume to everything being public property, everybody
contributing upon his own means and receiving after
his needs then I assume there is nothing evil into it.
Except, you need to postulate free will to keep things
nice, and I really don't see many people accepting
this type of life. I know I would not. Economically I
am all for left-wing principles, but morally, I would
feel my privacy and right of choice invaded by such a
system. Or perhaps it is just prejudice, but the
result is the same. And if not enough people enroll
then I assume it is quite difficult to keep the model
bankable.

If, however, you refer to the Communism supposedly
implemented in former and actual Communist countries,
that was founded on Marxism, which means it contained
the 'class fight' at its very roots. Now, in my
understanding, any system based on a 'fight' of any
sort is indeed evil and doomed to collapse. In order
to survive, such as system would need the 'fight' to
continue, therefore it would need to feed itself with
enemies. After the rich the intellectuals, after the
intellectuals the idealists, then the foreigners, then
the believers, then the rock fans, and so on, and so
forth. It does not depend on implementation; the
concept itself is flawed. Not to mention that whatever
system based on 'dictatorship', be it attributed to
'workmen' or not, is in principle evil. At least in my
view, which could of course be wrong.

I cannot help mentioning one of my favorite movies,
which shows how the history of the Eastern Europe
countries has been during the last century, remarkably
accurately and thoughtfully. It is the saga of a
Hungarian Jewish family, but it is illutrative enough
for the whole area and for other races as well. It is
called 'Sunshine', it was directed by Istvan Szabo,
with Ralph Fiennes, Jeniffer Ehle, Rachel Weisz etc.

Hoping she did not go too far into Boring/Biasedland,
Mira


		
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