From: "Smiler" 


"Dubh Ghall"  wrote in message
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> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:54:25 -0400, stumper 
> wrote:
>
>>Do you think atheism would solve any real problem?
>
> It would remove the primary root of evil for the last two thousand
> plus, years, and give people a chance to see that they are more alike,
> than they are different.
>
> Political positions ebb, flow, and mix, so that eventually parties
> take the complete opposite position, and never realise that they have
> done it.
>
> Capitalists become Communists, and Communists become Capitalists.
>
> But Capitalism needs high demand, and low supply, to stay ahead,
> Communism OTOH, can never succeed, while demand out strips supply.

I have to disagree on this point.
There is one form of communism that can *only* succeed while demand outstrips supply.
Take, for instance, a small tribe of people living in the jungle. Food is
in short supply. Any food they get, they share equitably. The elderly and
the young all get their fair share, even though they haven't participated
in the finding/catching/harvesting/cooking of the food. This is neccessary
for the survival of the tribe. If someone doesn't get any food, they die
and thus diminish the numbers of the tribe. It may not be a communistic
political system (Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism, etc.), but it *is*
communism, nonetheless. Probably the 'truest' form of communism (and not a
bagpipe in sight :-))
Only if there is a surplus of food would someone have sufficient to hoard
some of that surplus, to distribute to others (for some 'payment') in time
of shortage and thus become a capitalist.

This is one of the very few scenarios in which communism does work for the
benefit of all.

Smiler,
The godless one

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