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To: TimF who wrote (326471)	2/19/2007 6:36:05 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576826

In theory they could be democratically elected, In the places where the elections are actually free and fair, for example Sweden or Finland, the social contract really works. What is often claimed as a failure of communism is actually the ordinary and expected failure of despotism and monopoly. TP

To: TimF who wrote (326471)	2/20/2007 8:04:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576826

"True communism" of the type you're talking about not only has never existed on a wide scale, it probably can't exist on a wide scale. You're assuming by today's standards. I am not sure things won't change in the distant future. If everyone owns everything, someone still has to make a decision. You can't have everyone vote any time something is to be done with property, so you have government representatives control it. On the contrary, technologically, we are at the point where mass voting is very possible. Everyone could vote from their place of residence on important issues. You would simply have administrators monitoring the agencies performing the work. In theory they could be democratically elected, but even then you still have the same type of problem that Nigeria had with the trees and that other socialist or communist countries have had. It was Niger. And the problem with the trees may not be at all what you perceive.