Communism is proven a total failure yet when the Soviet Union failed 15 years earlier than my predictions it sent many sympathizers in this country off the deep end instead of leading them to a more reasonable understanding of this matter. Since then these people have waged a desperate effort to recreate their failed fantasy land here in America. I am afraid they might succeed.

Ultimately the problem with communism is that it is based on three premises that are most easily proven wrong. These are that everyone values everything the same, is interchangeable with any other person, and can be functional in a society where personal effort is not rewarded:

1. VALUE: Each person values everything the same as every other person. FALSE: I have friends who love to smoke and value cigarettes highly. I don’t and wouldn’t give you a cent for a pack; and so on. Gosh, just look at the number of different brands and models of cars people buy!

2. TALENT: Any one person is just as good at any particular job as another and so people are interchangeable in society and so individuality is subordinated to the collective. FALSE: In every case where just anyone was assigned to do something during the Bolshevik take over there was usually failure requiring that individuals with experience and talent be recruited in to do the job. Just look at the number of Czarist officers who were brought into the Red Army during the Civil War…and then purged and killed off by Stalin right before WWII and then rehabilitated and placed at the head of the Red Army a second time to beat back the Nazi’s.

3. GREED: This is forbidden: That is, each person is to work to their utmost for the same pay no matter whether the person sitting next to them can or is willing to do the same. FALSE: The corrupt leaders of the Soviet Union proved that wrong with their limousines and Dacha’s on the Black Sea. And party operatives running the poorly constructed factories would meet centrally planned targets by any crooked means they could think up because their workers were not productive enough to do the job.

All these false premises allows the government to justify and impose central planning on the nation leading to severe economic and agricultural dislocations, local uprisings and resistance, leading to justification for governmental spying purging, and physical coercion all hallmarks of communist countries without exception.

On the other hand, Capitalism, when properly underpinned by rule of law and private property rights to prevent wealth from being turned into legislative, judicial, and police power by the rich works just the opposite; with and not against human behavior:

1. VALUE: We all value things differently. TRUE: This has lead naturally to different people producing different products based on the specific demands of others thereby serving a purpose while personally benefiting through profit without any need for government to intervene or plan.

2. TALENT: We may all be equal under God and Law but we are definitely not all the same in terms of capabilities. Who could jump like Air Jordan, Sing like Kate Smith, Think like Einstein? Each has something to contribute, either small or large but just the same necessary for the entire society to function properly as it does when Capitalism is allowed to flourish by allowing each to find their own place in their own way.

3. GREED: We all want more for ourselves. TRUE: This as lead to those GREEDY people with the TALENT to create VALUE to be come rich and thereby enrich our society in a manner never before experienced by mankind.

In the end COMMUNISM = DEATH while CAPITALISM = LIFE