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Al68
You forget a very important part of this: Communism's success is dependent on the premise of everyone being completely altruistic, while free-market capitalism's success is not dependent on everyone being completely self-interested and rational.arildno said:Rand makes the same mistake as communists:
She doesn't take into account grubby, dirty reality:
Communists fantasized about strictly altruistic human beings who didn't bother about who happens, at a particular transaction to get "the most", being equally willing to pull the shortest straw the next time.
Rand fantasizes about the strictly rational, self-serving individual, unfrightened by the individuality of The Other, and makes her philophy on basis of that.
To both of these movements, the following line is most apt:
It ain't necessarily so.
If society happens to be a mixture of semi-altruistic and self-interested individuals, which it is, that completely precludes the success of communism, but as can be seen around the world, capitalism thrives. And it's not hard to see why that's the case.