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KellersPhoenix's avatar

If your intent is to persuade any among the unpersuaded and you immediately dismiss communism with reference to incentives and pleas to your own authority, you will fail. Those who think communism sounds good (and are not your own children) will not consider “communism is bad because no one has any incentives to produce” to be a knockdown argument. They have heard that before and considered that before.

If instead you intend to write only for the already persuaded, kudos, quality start.

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Jose Pablo's avatar

Communism is deeply rooted in our culture. Took Christianity: richs are banned from heaven (at least if we don't find a way of passing camels trough the eye of a needle).

An envy is a very powerful force in humans. Communism promise of leveling us with all the "have more than us" is truly unbeatable. Sweet revenge!

And championing comunism ideals make us feel good about ourselves at a very low individual price. Communism includes making others pay for our virtue signalling. Unbeatable too.

Communism idea is so powerful that it is embeded in a lot of "democratic" constitutions.

Abandoning communism (not a bad titlte, by the way) requires much more than good reasoning and good lessons on economic history. It is something we need to feel, not to think. We are all communist at heart

Good luck!

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