Why are so many millennials getting into communism?

shootermacg wrote: »

Nothing wrong with a wealth tax on earnings over 50 million. I think most of you guys are safe

A wealth tax is a noble idea, but if you're a wealthy person subject to the tax, you might be OK with paying it, but it would have to be galling if you saw your tax money being used poorly.

14dMoney wrote: »

There are very few people in the world who earn 50 million per year. If you're talking about taxing assets, that's a completely different, darker story.

The tax would only start at 50 million, getting more punitive.

I think when people talk socialism, they are talking democratic Socialism. I've never hard anyone in Ireland talking communism.

14dMoney wrote: »

I'd also struggle to call modern day China a communist country, given the industry and billionaires there.

That too. There's still a wealthy elite, so hardly Communist in the strict sense.

The Communist Manifesto is a terrible book. It's in league with books like The Secret and Guns, Germs and Steel.

They make alot of claims ranging from spurious to incompetent, which is obvious when they're subjected to a small amount of thinking or fact checking. Certain books like these can also promise amazing things If adhered to. Most importantly, they are written in a way which implies rigour, experience and honesty, yet contain very little.

Essentially these books cater to people that consider themselves good and intelligent. Anyone that rubishes the ideas can be dismissed as evil/anti-intellectuals that can't understand the books/people that don't even read at all, etc.

There's a level of thoroughness and dryness in great political/economic books which is impenetrable for most people. Even for professors, who consider themselves the cream of the crop in terms of intelligence. These profs naturally want to appear very politically savy, so the Communist Manifesto will somehow appeal to them, and get passed on to their students in the process, which keeps it relevant and safe to parrot.

There are books on Capitalism which are of the exact same type as the above. They cater to the exact same people, and unless you are exceedingly intelligent and have dedicated your life to understanding economics and human behaviour and probably other disciplines too, you will have a very difficult time unpacking the truth from the falsehoods.

Put together all these factors, then remember that Tom Cruise is a member of Scientology and hundreds were convinced to suicide themselves during the Jonestown Massacre, and it's not surprising that bad ideas refuse go away.

Ideologies are a minefield. Every person in a system needs the system justified in degrees of intelligibiliy ranging from, "Happy people do this!" on one end, to collections of thousand page tombs on happiness, spanning centuries and written by some extremely clever and dedicated philosophers, who nonetheless all disagree with one another on the other end!


But that's just my current perception of things. There are many other factors to consider. Disenfranchisement is what allows the madness to proliferate. Unfortunately, the types of enfranchisement available to such people is rarely benevolent.

It has crept in the backdoor over the last 20 years or so.

New more creative taxes, restrictions on the importance of personal choice and responsibilities, the nanny state, the overemphasis on "poor people" in the media without referencing that of their own life mistakes, the buzz words of "equality" and "compassion", the constant highering of the bar for who falls into the Poverty criteria.

Just look at the things you were able to do and say 20 years ago, compared to now. Are you more free now than 20 years ago?

Now Green Issues are the new thing. They want to get rid of all branded packaging, whilst at the same time the nanny state are attempting to make all of these things taste the same, with increased taxes of sugar and regulations.

I would also add the monopolization of the mainstream media, is actually criminal. You are literally putting thoughts in the heads of people who either are too busy or stupid to think for themselves.

Ask yourself who does Fox news target.