Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-174.22.192.132-20161104024309/@comment-25012056-20161125170731

Cirdan of the Falas wrote: Isn't Communism mainly about everyone being the same, paying the same, earning the same for their work etc.? (Atleast that is bassicly the discription in my history school book) but there is one big problem with this. I will take a doctor for this example because it is quite easy to follow that way. If you would live in Russia in 1921 with the new communistic regime of Lenin since a few years, and you could choose between becomming a doctor, (requiring you to study for years, then having to get an actual job somewhere.) or becomming someone producing steel in some factory or farmer on a farm (requiring basicly no study, with a huge chance of getting a job somewhere) which one would you choose. Most likely the last one because, since it is communism you will earn the same amount of money for your job as when you are a doctor, and it doesn't require an expansive study to become a doctor. The same goes for most jobs requiring a study or even something in that direction. That is probably the biggest problem with communism and what is the biggest weak spot of it. I don't say that capitalism is good, but atleast things like this aren't a problem with it. (doing a harder and more specialised job will get your more money, when living under a capitalistic leadership, opposite to a communistic leadership where you will get exactly the same payment.) Also I think that under Lenin Russia did probably better then under the Tsars, (Lenin wasn't perfect at all, yet still way better then Stalin) since atleast not everyone was starving (while under the Tsars exept the rich people and land owners most people were starving) anymore. And the popultation wasn't being angry that much.

The thing is, you wouldn't have to pay for that education because the state provided it for free if they saw you had talent. The two weaknesses of communism are the ease of it becoming totalitarian and the general lack of motivation.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 17:07, November 25, 2016 (UTC)