BasketCase
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Goodie! Haven't had a chance to bag on communism in quite a while. 
I like that "then a miracle occurs" step in the middle, by the way. Exactly how is a committee supposed to ensure there is plenty to go around?? There's no way to do it. Politicians have certainly been trying, for as long as there have been politicians, and any politician who actually succeeded would be dubbed President-for-life by a very happy electorate. The closest anybody anywhere has been able to get to this impossible ideal is by maximizing production at levels insufficient to give everybody everything they want.
The problem is, there needs to be a precedent before people will start embracing it wholesale. Proof of concept must come first. In order to get people to buy it, you have to prove that it works.

Isn't there a contradiction here? When the state withers away and the People are making decisions with no central authority to manage them.....that's the system the whole planet already has, right now.Planning was to be done by a central committee, insuring plenty for everyone. The state was to wither away.
I like that "then a miracle occurs" step in the middle, by the way. Exactly how is a committee supposed to ensure there is plenty to go around?? There's no way to do it. Politicians have certainly been trying, for as long as there have been politicians, and any politician who actually succeeded would be dubbed President-for-life by a very happy electorate. The closest anybody anywhere has been able to get to this impossible ideal is by maximizing production at levels insufficient to give everybody everything they want.
And you're correct.And, of course, I counter that there are no real historical precedents for communism.
The problem is, there needs to be a precedent before people will start embracing it wholesale. Proof of concept must come first. In order to get people to buy it, you have to prove that it works.