The Communist Utopia

Nope, it started because human nature is selfish. A sane person does not put his country's needs over his own needs and desires. And I'm sure that goes for people in Belgium as well. Leaders of any country need to understand this as the reality, and work with it rather than try to force people to abandon their selfish natures.

O, and btw, when you say that by looking at the responses here you understand why the US is trillions of dollar in debt, it's like me saying that by looking at your responses I realize why Belgium was never close to being a world power, and currently has no international influence whatsoever. In other words, it's ridiculous. Everyone who's posting here is merely stating his or her own opinion, with no intention whatsoever of representing their countries.

I don't give a crap what my attitude "comes across" as, unlike some politically correct Europeans (and Americans, I admit). It's the reality, and I believe it's a good thing that people are selfish, because that's what allows people to look after themselves even when other people aren't helping them.

O, and just for the record (although this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of discussion), I do use public transportation regularly, because I don't own my own car.

O, and btw, don't you find it ironic that you're using a US-based website as a platform for disseminating Anti-American propaganda, while simultaneously benefiting from the website's other services (namely chess) for free?

He didn't have an answer because the 99% of people who talk about communism don't have a clue what it is, and have never read Marx.

Marx explained perfectly how this problem will be overcome. To make it really short, it is about a transition phase where people will be paid differently based on how much (quantity and quality) they work; equal salary for all would be unfair for the time being (Marx said that).

Communism is a philosophy that assumes that our selfishness (e.g. working for our own benefit and not caring about the community) is not intrinsic to the human nature, but it is rather brought upon us by the capitalist society. During the transition phase (socialism) society needs to change, people need to change the way they see the world.

For example, nobody pays you to tidy up your room, to have a nice garden, or to cook a nice meal for your family. Nobody pays people to do bricolage or program open source, but some people still do it. You do these things because you take pleasure in creating something (and that's in the human's nature, according to Marx).

It is the capitalist society that *alienated* people from their work. Now people see work as a necessary evil, but it was not meant to be this way. It was the capitalists, specifically with the destruction of craftsmanship and the introduction of the labour market, that made the society "selfish".

Changing this mentality could happen only with new generations, as the currently living people are just too accustomed to our logic of profit making that would be unable to live in a communist utopia. In other words, communism could not be implemented during our lifetime.

TheGambitKing

Just listen to most of these individuals from the 'right'--their sense of entitlement and the fantasy that they've 'earned' what they have been born into scares me.

First, I am not a member of "the right wing" in this country. I actually don't care how you categorize my views, but let's make it clear for those whose opinion I do care about.

Secondly, you don't know me. You don't know what I've earned and what I haven't. You weren't there when I was working weekends to figure out how to fomulate a floor paint that meets regulatory restrictions. You have no knowledge of OEM products I formulated that have sold millions of gallons. These are not things I was "born into," believe me. You say you don't want to come to the US - good! You can try to get your communist utopia up and running in Belgium, but I doubt you'll be able to sell the idea to the Dutch conservatives in that country. Neither will you gain much traction in the more affluent countries if the EU. Just go bak to your Latvian gambit. It suits you.

Can you actually read, you twat ??? 

http://youtu.be/ZAtF4XZ3unI

No, I said that if all the Premium features would be made accessible to "lazy freeloaders" (where do those assumptions come from??, if I'm not good at Chess, does that make me 'lazy' or a 'loser'?), my behavior wouldn't change a bit. You attack me since your first post in this thread, calling me lazy, poor, whatever, for no initial reason at all. So yeah, calling you a twat seemed like the right decision at the moment ...

EDIT: confused some words there ...

I don't care where he's from, or if he pays his monthly 5 bucks to Erik, but I just snap when someone thinks he's better than anyone else, just because he has the nicer gimmicks. Maybe 'twat' wasn't really the appropriate choice of words after all, embittered, old stinker sounds more like it. 

People are always coming out against food stamps and social security disability and welfare and so forth. But I have noticed that no one ever says anything against the banks and corporations that have been given billions of dollars by the USGOV because they are too big to fail. Not only are they too big to fail they are too crooked to fail. 

Why do you call me 'nutty', or an 'idiot'? Is name-calling your last resort? Is your self-worth that low that you define yourself by your income? But I don't see the merit in hoping for a non-pejorative answer from you and wish you all the luck in the world with your upcoming kidney stones removal (or whatever the reason is you're so pissed).

Peace.

Ok, so maybe "propaganda" wasn't the best word, but you're missing my point. My point is, if I were using the services of a website based in another country for free, I wouldn't go around criticising that country or (in your case) making extremely pessimistic predictions about that country's future, from the perspective of an outsider. Rather I would be grateful that that country allows me to use their website free of charge, and stay away from political discussions about that country.

On the contrary, I hear a lot more people complaining about Wall Street and that kind of stuff than people on welfare who shouldn't be.

@ TheGambitKing and others like him: Bottom line is, if you don't live in the US, then you shouldn't be telling us what to do. Americans are capable of thinking for themselves and making our own political decisions, thank you.

Aw, c'mon Gramps, nowadays nobody needs to die anymore from such a trivial incision like a simple kidney stone surgery, you'll be just fine! 

I agree with you on a lot of these, but terrorist leaders aren't even war criminals. They are not participating in an officially waged war. Perhaps the closest status would be 'pirate'. As such, according to the laws of nations, they can be hung (!) without trial.

I dunno, but I heard somewhere that an extensive diet of raw vegetables and unskimmed goat milk might reduce the risk of kidney stones by up to 33% !!! 

I'll be praying for you, pal, a nephrolithotomy should never be taken lightly, despite all the recent advancements in Modern medicine.

lol! 

I better stop teasing him now, I should know better. After all, isn't it stated in the Holy Writ:

Proverbs 17:28

Now this thread covers everything: Politics, religion, some remarks about Chess as well, slinging insults at each other ... I bet it'll be closed in the next 24 hours. But I'm crossing my fingers!