FP037 Why Communism Failed in under 5 minutes

This presentation gives the reasons why the communist societies established by utopian socialists fail based on the real life experiences of the New Harmony community that was established in Indiana in 1825 by Robert Owen. No experiment is perfect, least of all a social experiment. The New Harmony community seemed to have sincerely attempted to create a community based on grass roots socialist principles of the day. They implement to a greater or lesser extent each of the criteria of a communist society. The community used "labour notes", rather than entirely free exchange, regular currency being prohibited. Unlike the anarchist societies that emerged during conflicts in Europe and the Ukraine, the New Harmony experiment was not destroyed by reactionary forces. It imploded due to irreconcilable differences of opinion because the foundational principles of.their society were not objective. The New Harmony Community was one of a number of socialist projects aimed at creating a communist utopia, according to Wikipedia: "Between 1825 and 1830 more than a dozen such colonies were established in the United States, inspired by the ideas of Robert Owen. All of these met with economic failure and rapid disestablishment within one or a comparatively few years." Sources: Communist society (defined) "In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production, absence of social classes, money, and the state." https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Communism New Harmony http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harmony,_Indiana List of Owenite communities in the United States (they all failed with a year or so) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Owenite_communities_in_the_United_States Josiah Warren http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist https://mises.org/library/josiah-warren-first-american-anarchist Labour notes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_notes_(currency) Warren, The Motives for Communism and What it Led To http://freedomphilosophy.tv/products/josiah-warren-the-motives-for-communism-and-what-it-led-to/ Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis https://mises.org/library/socialism-economic-and-sociological-analysis Larken Rose, Communisms Soul http://nogov4me.net/archive/comsoul.htm Why hierarchy arises in human societies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlBYJoCRr8

Comments

1. too slow Joe
2. Communism failed, Socialism failed, Democracy is failing. Well why don't we have Fascism because that really works doesn't it!!!
3. 5 minute video where barely 1 min of it actually talks about communism failing. That 1 min wasn't even descriptive enough
4. Communism failed because it's a Utopian ideology, and as with all of the Utopian ideas it ignores the nature of humans. You cannot strip the individual of his ability to self-determine without resorting to tyranny to achieve it. This is why the various governments that have attempted to implement communism had developed into totalitarian states with prison camps and secret police. As with all such states the harder you squeeze your people the more discontent they will become.
5. "But Dats Nat Real Communism" 😂😂😂
   
   Pimple faced morons!
6. >name is "freedom philosophy"
   >supports capitalism
   
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7. To remain credible you must use spell-check......"seperate"???
8. Why communism failed in under 5 seconds: "People like to actually own their own shit"
9. Meanwhile at Somalia, the biggest failure of Capitalism. It is the landscape that anarcho-capitalists want globally.
10. Pure ideo! Fuck you capitalist scum
11. Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
    
    Friedrich Nietzsche
12. Why Communism failed in three words:
    
    Humans are greedy
13. the only good commie is a dead commie
14. Communists would have criticized the idea of having a so-called "Communist" society in the year 1825. Even know the material conditions make capitalism necessary, and arguably socialism. Communism would not work in reality for hundreds of years, due to the fact that we do not live in post-scarcity.
15. Well said! Excellent historical overview!
16. Why you failed before the video even began:
    
    COMMUNISM HAS NEVER BEEN IMPLEMENTED.
17. Republicanism may not be perfect but it's the best we have.
18. To sum this up for people, my summary (i think i understand it) communism, socialism and democracy fail because they strive to create equality for men but cannot due to classless society. it is not labor notes or the government, its because of organizing labor is impossible because everyone shares property and no single person can do it. they must use threats and kill to increase more production for equal needs and create surplus. they have to kill people trying to be more privileged or trying to overthrow communism.
19. truth cannot be defined in a way that everyone agrees to.... Let's base on knowledge, respect, work, modesty and self criticism.
20. Why capitalism faild