Was reading a blog the other day about alternate forms of government and of course communism came up. One commentor mentioned that Cuba, whilst being a communist state, is more a “private group owning everything”. I found this statement interesting and it got me thinking, if you were to take unregulated capitalism, would you end up with pure communism?
Profit is made by selling a good for more money than it cost to make. Lack of competition would allow you to set the sale price and if you owned all of the land then you could control the cost price. If you could dictate to the people what they bought then you’ve got end game and it sounds alot like a communist government to me. The only problem comes when you have two communist countries who want to trade with each other. Basically the whole world would need to be communist for communism to work and I think if that happened a few people would object and we’d be back to square one.
As I’ve said before in this blog, greed it not restricted to those who have or crave money. Greed is a facet of human nature and applies to communists as well as liberterians as well as socialists as well as capitalists.
