I Hate Communism
Why Communism Is Evil And Will Never Work
Communism has enslaved and killed millions of innocent people. Every communist country that ever existed has either collapsed or is on its way to capitalism. Yet, scores of people are still screaming "communism is the answer". As a a former citizen of the Soviet Union, I find this astounding. And chilling to the bone.
Why do you think people defected from the Soviet Union back in the day, under the threat of imprisonment and death? Why do you think people are still risking their lives to swim out of Cuba? Just for fun? Why do you think every communist state was born in violence and held together by fear and isolation? If this is such a wonderful ideology that makes everything better for everyone, why is it that the only way for it to succeed is to force itself down people's throats?
The defenders and supporters of communism like to point out that the statement about communism killing all those people is incorrect because communism in its purest form has never actually been tried in the world. That's right, it hasn't. For the simple reason that it isn't possible for it to ever be achieved.
Allow me to explain why. The fallacy of ideologies like Marxism is their belief in every human being's complete benevolence and its labeling of every selfish act as evil. In reality, human beings are not benevolent, and they are not selfless. I will be the first to admit that the free market system is based on this notion, but that doesn't make it evil (neither does financial success of China make it a successful society). What motivates a person to work hard for a better future for everyone? The promise of a better future for him or her as an individual. When there is no personal payoff, there is no motivation to work hard for common good. To put this into real-life terms, the reason Mr. Smith decides to open a restaurant is not because he wants to feed people who are hungry and make the world a better place, but because he wants to sell a product to those who want to buy it, and thus make a profit that would better his and his family's lives. But, by providing a service other people want, Mr. Smith is making the world a better place. Because the moment he starts selling bad food and being rude to his customers, the customers will no longer buy from him, but from Mr. Jones down the street who does offer quality food and service. In a free market system, one cannot offer the bare minimum, cannot compromise the quality of their goods, because doing so will drive them out of business. No bad restaurants on the street = better street. That's just common sense.
But in a Marxist society, a man can and will offer his absolute bare minimum, because there is no payoff for working harder, and no threat of his customers leaving him for greener pastures if he sells them bad-quality goods, rude service, or a pack of lies. Not only will he not change if they complain, he'll laugh in their faces - now, this I know from experience. Every purchase we made when I was a kid was a decision of paramount proportions, because there was no option to either exchange or return the goods you bought. This sort of thing leads to people trying to obtain better quality goods from abroad, which in turn leads to people scheming, stealing, and trying to game the system, because those foreign goods cannot be purchased at their local stores or on their miserly salaries. They are willing to risk what little they have to obtain something that's better than what's available to them legally. And why? Because it would make their lives better in some way. No matter which system you live under, human nature wins every time. We will always want what we cannot have. No matter how much we have, we will always crave more. When we're put in a cage that stifles our ability to better our and our family's lives, we will always, always strive to escape it.
You cannot build a perfect society with imperfect individuals, and you cannot force people to be perfect. So it makes sense that the only way for communism to succeed (in a manner of speaking) is to create a totalitarian government over the "dumb masses", who are to be ruled by the "perfect" select few, to be cowed and forced into submission. It's just another form of slavery under the guise of altruism. The “common good of all people” was used as a justification for every single tyranny that ever existed, and the evil they've committed overwhelms the evil committed by openly selfish undertakings or governments. All these “humanitarians” who commenced their rule with speeches about love, peace, tolerance and common good, ended up neck-deep in blood of their fellow men, the very people they had claimed to love so dearly.
And the moment a leader considers it acceptable to sacrifice the lives of millions of people for a humanitarian cause, he stops being benevolent and becomes evil incarnate.
Communism is nothing more than a form of slavery, a religion without a god; an ideology in which the government is god. It is why abolition of religion, nationality, and private property are communism's primary objectives. A person who worships a god, will never worship a government. When you are free to choose whatever belief system you want, you can never be chained to an ideology. When you are self-sufficient, you cannot be made slave to handouts and promises of a better life. When you know your history and feel pride in your culture, you cannot be dictated what your identity should be.
Which would you rather be? Would you rather live in a society where you can be free to choose your own destiny, where you can peacefully co-exist with all kinds of people even though you may not share their spiritual beliefs and cultural traditions? Or would you rather live in a society where you have but two options: either worship the God of Government or perish on the altar of its good intentions?
Thanks for reading.
