You still have empathy after the leftist and the communists know very well their theory doesn’t translate at all to human realities? And they still promote it?
”Each according to their need and each according to their ability.”something a teenager without any history knowledge or knowledge of human psychology would believe in.
I’d have empathy for this teenager and if communism wouldn’t have proven time and time again how bad it is.
leaving aside this claim, that actually doesn’t work in reality*, what communism does, and what the left is doing right now, is to install a new class in power, replacing the “bourgeoisie” with a political ideological class that is the holder and inforcer of the “Truth”. Initially these are good people that have arrived at the Truth and are doing good, even for the “deplorable” masses who don’t get it “yet”. But only initially. They get infiltrated by ppl who see this is the way to power, influence, and eventually just food.
As member of this class, and even of the little people, as this ideology breaks with the reality on the ground, and the need to cover up the truth of what is actually happening, the need to lie, to change language, to police behaviour, speech and yes, even thoughts, grows bigger and bigger.
The members of the political class are not exempt. They eat their own, they cater to the most “triggered” among them, grudges are paid back etc. this infighting is always happening, no one trusts no one, everyone is under scrutiny, the truth can’t be mentioned, problems need to be covered up, and it just escalates and escalates…
You can see this happening now, it has started with political correctness (good ppl doing good, good intentions, etc), moved into critical race theory and gender ideology. Conflicts can’t be acknowledged, definitions need to be changed (racism now means structural racism, woman/man who knows what). No problems will be (and maybe can’t be) solved, like male violence pattern same for all subgroups, black poverty.
But as long as people feel good and have control of the language and the power structures to shut down dissent, it’s all good in their world.
In many European countries it took up to 50 years for problem to become glaring. So in 50 years, will be apparent to everyone males still offend lie, they always have been, no one has done anything practical to solve black poverty, more it has continued to increase (as problems that are not addressed do). All this inclusivity and taking the knee (empty action) has done nothing, more women/girls/minorities suffer than when it started.
Women and girls would have changed behaviour by then, restricting their public life, going in pairs, stop participating in sports, etc.
Another issue, left and communism always increase poverty as well, across the board. China has managed to avoid this by introducing a form of capitalism, but the West if gets their way, with both unchecked capitalism that increases the divide between the rich and the poor and with measures like universal credit, will only increase poverty.
*”Each according to their need and each according to their ability.”
- I’m from a former communist country. In my father’s factory there was a guy who always came drunk and didn’t work, just showed up. He was working according to his “ability “ + everyone had “the right to work”, so he couldn’t be fired. Absurd? Comical? Well look at trans ideology.. This happened decades after communism was introduced, maybe it was a consequence of ideology going mad, maybe this happened from the start, I don’t know. As a consequence, how many people felt inclined to actually work?
- Even without a guy like that, who can actually tell what is someone’s actual “ability” is - so work for as little as you can or not at all, salary is guaranteed. The economy will get worse, but this will become apparent decades later (depending on how rich in resources the country was initially ). You just have to make your end of year figures look good for the party.
- or who can tell what is someone actual need is? Even if you don’t have a physical ability, if you can bribe a doctor to give you a pass for a mental illness (everyone needed food or other perks you couldn’t find otherwise, no matter how hard you worked - the irony), so if you were the son of the city’s mayor, you could bribe your way to anything. Or if your mum could steal enough chickens from the farm, maybe not enough for a steady life payment, but for many things.
- these are just a few ex from the top of my head, many ppl have written better on this, I’m not saying anything new
- this happens when and because there is no free speech, all kinds of madness, corruption can grow under the umbrella of PC speech, and they can’t be exposed, so they only grow worse.
- free speech is the best tool and disinfectant and prevention we have, as we can’t change people from overcoming to cults, ideologies and the like. If that’s gone, all will go.
Im so mad of ppl still having empathy, still seeing the “good” in communism, still hankering for utopias that can’t exist unless humans evolve to Star Trek levels, etc.
maybe you or your children will get to experience it here in uk as well, not the same but a form of totalitarian ideology, as it’s going that way. Will see how much empathy you will have left at the end of it. With with tech control, there might be no end to it any time soon.