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To: koan who wrote (224143)	5/14/2013 7:28:46 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540763

<communism may have just been an idea ahead of its time> I read Das Kapital in High School. I got half way through it and decided it was BS and unworkable. Certainly there has never been a group that has voluntarily given up power. The extraordinary claim that the Dictatorship of the Proletariat will dissolve after 5 years was bogus. The purported end game of Marx was a democracy where there was no power differences. Such a utopian system that lacks feedback mechanisms that plausibly cause its continuation is absurd. I don't believe in things for which there is little or no historical evidence. As Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." While the end-game of capitalism is feudal, communism with its alienation of individuals from the benefits of their personal achievements is its Achilles Heel. A social democracy that rewards personal achievement but places a limit to the material benefits that one person can accumulate over generational boundaries is sustainable. The economy of the Scandinavian countries shows that this can work. I think everyone has to have a shared set of values and a Balkanized multicultural mosaic without a core of shared values (education, civility, tolerance, shared viewpoints) is not stable. IMO. <Plato> His Republic? A world of philosopher kings?