Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Although I like this idea very much, I'm dubious about how it would work in practice. Not because it could create a powerful state as people tend to argue (I don't think it would), but because even at the grassroots level, people are going to have their ideas of how society should be, and want to use power to keep it that way. Marx might have argued that religion, nationhood, sexism etc are social constructs, but this is wishful thinking... they seem to be a very integral part of human nature. We developed as a species on a tribal basis, and so we still see this mentality in the 'my race is better than yours' attitudes that I think we all still have a little bit of, even if we won't admit it. Same goes for the gender divisions - the fact is men and woman are different, may as well deal with it and not pretend we're all the same.
Right. We had a thread about the how poorly the attempt to turn afghanistan democratic is going. If the people aren't ready for it, it can't work.

So I guess the idea of the communists is that one day people will be ready for communism (based on what?). Whereas the system we have now is more aimed at accepting parts of human nature and trying to work with them.