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It seems that you are saying that everyone is improper. That is not true. Come on, don't be so negative. Actually the motivation problem has been proven to be untrue.
I wish I were more knowledgeable on this topic. It is a subject I intend to research in the near future. There are so many brands of communism (Marxism, Trotskyism, Stalinism etc.) and they differ so greatly, that I think it is difficult to catergorise the term 'communism' as either good or bad.
At this moment I will tentatively agree with the opening statement. From the little I know right now, I believe the intentions of Marxism and Trotskyism were intrinsically good (Stalinism...not so much).
However, one only needs to read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell to see how easily the philosophy of the 'Old Major' (Marx) is corrupted.
To quote Marxist scholar Hal Draper: "there are few thinkers in modern history whose thought has been so badly misrepresented, by Marxists and anti-Marxists alike."
The real problem with communism is that it doesn't work. The countries that try it generally end up switching to a capitalist and hopefully democratic model of society.
The despite lack of motivation is a bit if, it's probably the largest problem with communism, and can't simply be ignored.
But other than that, there are still pro's and con's.
Pros: you're forced to fear the government, what you're given by the government is basic and spartan, so everyone gets the same, low standard of living, there are queues everywhere as people don't work hard, creating stress in everything, with no promotions, no rewards, it's hard to find fulfilment, when people don't own things, they don't take care of things, so everything seems shabby, and depressive, there's masses of inefficiency in businesses, and stuff gets wasted.
I'm not going into the cons, I'm you know them unless you wouldn't have answered the question. On paper it does look good, but it's idealistic, and impossible to implement. If I could see a successful communist nation, I would be happy, but I just don't think it's realistic.
They say the smartest person in a capitalist country is the market, it's smarter than any of the individuals within it. So, in communism, there is no equivalent. In capitalism, everything just as complicated, but everyone uses their most valuable resource, their knowledge of themselves, to organise the economy for themselves. It doesn't sound as good, but in practice it works much better.
Neither system is intristically better, I think the best system would be communism, but capitalism works better under normal situations.
But you simply can't fix the motivational problem without combining communism and capitalism, which is then no longer communism. I support a mix, a strong welfare state may not be the best economical choice, but it aids to the best standard of living for a population as a whole, I believe.
The problem is, communism dictates that every single person gets exactly the same living conditions, possessions, choices, and lack of civil rights, among other things. To me, and many others, one of the things that motivates me to work hard is rewards, whether they be financial, for long term gains, or knowledge. If you take this away, as communism does, I can safely say without a doubt that I, and billions of other people, would not work as hard.
You need rewards to motivate most people to work hard, without the promise of rewards you can't get them to work as hard.
I am not thinking about money, im thinking about honour points people can rank you in their opinion about how much your job has helped the the government can decide about how much "honour points" you deserve for your service to society. Every one will have the same amount of food, power, and the nescecities to life, the honour points can grant you more but not the life neccesities this way people are equal because communism refers to equality in life not stuff, there are no poor people. The honour points gets you stuff as a result of your hard work, the more honour points you have the more things you can get, but not food and life necescities other wise we would enter the problems of capitalism. So, I didn't mix it with capitalism but I might rather start a different ideology which is the next step to communism, just like socialism is the step towards communism. Tell me what you think as a matter of opinion, I just hope my idea is not stupid.
Yeah, I agree with that. But it isn't communism, it's simply based on it. Or, you could say it's like a huge welfare state. I'd say it's further than I'd like to go in that direction, but I wouldn't call it a bad idea.
But, again, it defeats the purpose of communism. The beauty of it is that everyone is the same, supported, fed, clothed, and 'loyal' to the sate. But in its implementation, civil liberties, and a few other basic rights are taken away from you.
With the idea of honour points, there'd be a self imposed class system based on who has the most class points, and eventually, as people take the things they're provided with for granted, as those with a welfare state often do, it'd become very similar to capitalism in some ways.
If you're interested in Communism, I know you said you're not interested in the money side of things, but google a few things about the positives and negatives to communism and their economies, it's definitely interesting to read about.
After talking about Honour points and how it is not capitalism because it is only for the extra stuff and that the life necessities are free can you help me support and fix flaws in my new ideology without crossing the capitalist line?
Based on a concept only very new to human nature - working for the common good - communism falls too quickly to more pervasive human vices. While 'good' as in, communism would be an ideal, it is currently unachievable.