Comments by "Khronogi" (@Khronogi) on "Paper Skies" channel.

  1. To be fair, communism isn't about creating wealth, while capitalism is. If a 5 year plan is inefficient that isn't the fault of communism, that is the fault of the people doing the 5 year plan. As Axeaman points out, a lot of the failures in those communist countries came from corruption and failures of people, not a failure of the style of system itself. What failures people attribute to the system, such as when you say "it reacts poorly to demand" is because the people in control reacted poorly to demand. But, it is feasible that a well ran system could do it well. It could also take advice from the people to generate the needed innovation. I think the main argument against communism is that it's not been experimented and put through the engineering cycle as much as say capitalism has. You've got to work the kinks of an economic system out over time. Then you also have the massive amount of propaganda against it, where even mentioning taking taxes and investing them into the people again is somehow a taboo and called communism. And to add a third paragraph into here: I feel like if a person is in charge of a manufacturing plant for a product, and they are siphoning off product for their own benefit, then the system that they are practicing is not communism.
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