My father went to Russia in the late 80s and early 90s, once for 1 year at a time, to work in a number of different microanalysis labs, including one next to the Baikal lake, in Moscow, and others I can't remember. He brought back a ton of communist memorabilia (pins of lenin, military officers' caps, money bills and coins, etc) and a lot of stories.
He said it wasn't too bad, but the state was everywhere. He was followed, from the customs all the way to his hotel room. Twice the person who happened to be following him came into the room. The first time he woke up as he was already looking through his luggage. The second time he was ready and had to point a gun at the guy for him to retreat.
There was a lot of partying (orgies apparently not taboo at all)... People seemed happy, but that's probably not a guarantee of anything, considering how masses of people can be conditioned to mediocre or worse lifestyles and/or standards of living. The state was taboo.
There is nothing more unfair and absurd than to take from someone the fruits of his labor. It's Sisyphus ad nauseum.
Capitalism is indeed a blind and pitiless survival of the fitest. But I and anyont with a minimum of lucidity wouldn't have it any other way.. You only get as good as you give. The better you treat yourself, the better work repays you. I personaly don't want others to pay for my expenses or needs, the same way I wouldn't consider it fair for someone to take what I earned on my own.
It would be such a miserable thing as you say Boroda, if not for the fact that health and professional success are a positive feedback loop. The only common weakness of capitalism that I see is people abusing others (e.g. outsmarting them into bankrupcy) or themselves (not having the drive to turn adversity into success).
But these are human nature, not capitalism's doing. Capitalism just highlights these human flaws.
You might say that this has nothing to do with communism, like you have many times already, not just to me... If so, then where does true Communism as you knew it stand, relative to this? Does it allow or intend to take from people what they've worked for? Does it not choose for an individual what he should do?
Not to be confused with what can seem like the "market"'s initial difficulty to tame, that is, taking care of yourself in a capitalistic free for all...
"No one's gonna give it to ya.. You have to
take it."
Apologies for the freakin derail Vulcan.
