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Originally Posted by Zhukov
 What is this "basic human nature" that you speak of?
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This basic ideology of "supply and demand", the american spirit of "if you work hard enough, long enough, ect" (i.e. the american dream concept) combined with basic Darwinism all relates to "basic human nature". The basic motto of communism "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" and all the altruistic values that go along with it are not, no matter how much we want them to be, human nature.
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Originally Posted by Zhukov
Communist theory isn't hasn't got an idealist view of the human race, it is a materialist view. Socialism doesn't work on a small scale, that's anarchism or stalinism! Kill yourself Kellychaos.
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True communism, as in the small scale communes popularized in the U.S. during the 1960's DO work and are most certainly NOT materialistic. They are the opposite. How can you be materialistic when everything belongs to everybody?! But ... ah ... there's the rub. The system is not materialistic ... people are. As much as it would be nice that a system like communism would work, people are simply not that altruistic. Stalinism is just communism turned into a dictarship due people's trust and intense nationalism. Countries that support a communist or socialist party are often prone to this. Look what happened to Germany's Labor Party prior to WWII.