Play Devil's Advocate! (4)

(Remember, kc1999 is trying to say that communism will work while I say it won't, since he is playing devil's advocate)Onto the arguments.For one, communism violates human rights--people want their own private property, they would rebel because their rights are violated, as found in "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights". [1] Furthermore it is immoral to violate such human rights to "(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others , and (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property." As stated forth by source [1]. This shows that private property is an important right of people that cannot be taken away. In fact, people hate communism so much, they've rebelled a gazillion times, as noted by source [2]. This is further supported by source [3], in which show the philosophies of Marxism, which although show that communists care about everything concerning the common people, this only takes away more rights of the people. In most communist societies, some people tend to be greedy, go against the law and take more than they are supposed to, still creating inequality--no matter how hard you work, you still gain the same exact money, taking away the incentive for education and skills, as suggested by source [4]. Masses of land-owners have rebelled against the infamous collectivation in the Soviets from 1928 and 1940. [11] The farmers died at the hands of executioners rather than wanting to be forced to work for the communists. When private farming was outlawed in China, so much people died that it was pretty much the most dangerous and deadly famine of all time. [12] In addition, source [4] also goes as far as to conclude reasonably that "economic productivity in communist societies declined and new “status”-based inequalities emerged where well-connected party elites enjoyed riches and leisure and ordinary workers did not." This shows how unfair a communist society is.Communism is also very unfair. Millions of people have died to a communism government-- even just counting in the 20th century, more than 85 million people died as a result from communist rule. [5] Not only that, even though everyone seems to have the same status, there has to be someone still ruling over them. And thus, there has turned into only two classes, the lower class consisting of all the citizens, and the rulers who could be definitely considered the "upper class". As you can see, the class struggle isn't stopped here--it continues on.Not only that, communism does not work. Once again, the revolutions point this out. And even without the revolutions, the economy collaspses. Due to Marxism depending on the "labor theory of value", [6] it turns out to be an oversimplification of the actual market, and many markets have actually collapsed when following Marxism prices, with source [7] explaining exactly why the Marx's theory fails, with three very important points: "1.Overly intensive urban indus­trialization has so reduced manpower ....no [longer] suffi­cient food to sustain the bloated cities. 2. The manpower drain .... in­supportable burden of con­sumer demand; the bureau­cratic overhead is simply crushing. 3. ...communist imperialism has withdrawn so many military and police from the productive labor force that...only women remain to do the actual work of national sup­ply and maintenance." In fact, the Marxism theory fails so bad that source [7] gives a good example of Russia falling back to being a "backward, sec­ond-rate economic power, hope­lessly bogged down in Marxist theory" by 22 reports. The main reason is the lack of labor force--again, as I mentioned above, people lack incentive to work because everyone earns the same exact amount of money regardless of what job they work in. Moreover, Russia's economy was so bad that there was huge lack of soap for a moment in their worse times! [8]Communism would also not work due to its ineffectiveness. It's pretty much destroying the environment ruthlessly and using up all the resources selfishly as one big body of working. [9] Why is it so? The economy is very ineffective, as noted above. Some of the population won't work at all. Most of the workers won't even try. They'll get money for not working. The slippery slope causes environment damage. How unthinkable! Meanwhile in capitalism, the economy is much better, which is why people don't use important rivers for irrigation within capitalist economies. In fact, research shows that free markets are far more effective than communist economies. [10] Because the communist economy is very ineffective, they cannot properly distribute the resources--once again contributing to my "environment damage argument".And finally....communism violates human rights. "Wait, didn't you already say that?" You may say. You are right, yet you are wrong. You see, communism violates more human rights than just merely private property. It also violates their rights to the Pursuits of Happiness, an "unalienable right". [13] You see, people may want to own their own private property. Moreover, since I already proved communism destroys the incentives people have to work high-skilled jobs, it limits people's creativity. How'd I leap to that conclusion? Well, good voters, here's how I reach the conclusion: if people want to do something and be awarded greatly, only to be awarded as much as if they were doing something they hated, then it limits their creativity thought in at least some ways. Those people want a sense of accomplishment, but they didn't get it, and they are tempted to quit, thus limiting people's creativity thought. IN CONCLUSION -Communism limits people's rights--twice-Communism is ineffective-Communism is unfair-Communism has failed many, many times -Communism can NOT work. [1] http://www.un.org...[2] http://en.wikipedia.org...[3] http://www.marxists.org...[4] http://v.gd...[5] http://www.academia.org...[6] http://www.econlib.org...[7] http://www.fee.org...[8] http://www.marxists.org...[9] http://v.gd...[10] http://v.gd...[11] http://en.wikipedia.org...[12] http://listverse.com...[13] http://www.pbs.org...