If you observe children, you’ll quickly see how if one has a toy, he or she will frequently not share it. The coveted toy is his and his alone. Another child wants it, even though the owner isn’t even playing with it… and still he won’t give it up — it’s his property. This is deeply ingrained in our collective psyche; what’s mine is mine, what’s yours is yours.
Communism wants to create this idyllic world wherein, in theory at least, everything is “common property”. Nothing is yours or mine and if you own anything at all, it is always exactly as much (or as little) as your neighbor has. A brain surgeon who went to medical school for a decade has the same income as the bricklayer, the plumber and the teacher. They drive the same shitty car. They eat the same bland food. Now we may think we’re “evolved” enough as a species to not care about any of this. To be okay with whatever the state grants us, in its infinite wisdom… but I don’t think we’ve really outgrown the same motivations that drive our child-selves. We don’t all want to live the same exact lives of quiet desperation — we want to stand out. We want to excel, or at least, have that option. Communism strips us of it.
We still, for the most part, want to be rewarded for work done. And if we work harder, study longer and make more efforts… we want greater rewards. If we are smarter, stronger, more motivated, we want to live a better life for it. And communism is the state saying: “No, it doesn’t work that way. Everyone gets a participation award and that’s that.” Plus nine out of ten times when Communists do establish a government? The leaders live lavishly while the rest of us grovel for scraps…
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