Originally posted by dadudemon
I thought about this a lot.What's the difference between classic socialism, a corporatocracy, an oligarchy, or a nobility?
Nothing, really. It's still a few people controlling resources and the means of production.
If you make it this abstract there is a lot of subtle problems with decision making that make most governments and corporations sound downright hopeless. The decisions will always be done by a small number of humans (simply because only individuals take actual directions) and what is important iis the model of organization you set up to disrupt their powers so it doesn't become purely personal.
One of the reasons for Comunism to have met such a miserable failure is because their theory was about how to use power and not how to disrupt it.
Originally posted by Bentley
If you make it this abstract there is a lot of subtle problems with decision making that make most governments and corporations sound downright hopeless. The decisions will always be done by a small number of humans (simply because only individuals take actual directions) and what is important iis the model of organization you set up to disrupt their powers so it doesn't become purely personal.One of the reasons for Comunism to have met such a miserable failure is because their theory was about how to use power and not how to disrupt it.
The history of communism rising in most countries is that they spend a long time getting dominated by foreign powers that control it so much the populace is in economic misery - Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, that was the case.