What Exactly is Wrong with Communism?

Communism presupposes that all private investment is exactly the same in its nature, conflates multiple economic systems through history as being the same in practice, and completely ignores entrepenuership as something that common folk have done through out history, instead painting every property owner as being a part of the same exact homogenized group (the bourgeoisie).

Since investment takes myriad forms, private companies take myriad forms, ways of privately organizing resources takes myriad forms, and how people use their property takes myriads forms, you end up conflating someone being hired by someone else as being literal slavery (because circumstances and stuff), and assuming that ideas and investment don't matter at all. That only one part of the production, the labor, is all that matters when thinking of value.

You also get the issue that with communism you would have to control what is allowed in a private economy, which just annihilates any kind of innovation, not to mention making people unconsensually obliged to comply with either a state, or their community. There isn't even a concept of the person doing all the work actually owning what they buy with that money, because if that money is used to invest, or to buy into ownership of productive means, you immediately become a class enemy. The moment you personal possessions can possibly be construed as "property", you are again a class enemy. The moment you use your ideas of your skills to leverage for better pay or ownership of means of production (which tools have been considered such means) you are yet again kicked out of the proles and are again, a class enemy.

Communism supposes that only collectively can people even be allowed to make any economic decision, at best, and at worst only allows projects decided by the state to even be pursued, which has always ended up putting way too much power into the state's hands, who've then always ground the common person into subservient dust. The kicker here, even when you control someone from cradle to grave, you still get markets emerging to actually handle all the things that your state/community council can't account for. Right now black markets are the only thing keeping North Korea remotely afloat, and the state even knows that in this case.

The real nutso thing though? When communists eschew anti-market tendencies and actually try to go out and participate and make their own way in a market context, they actually find a synthesis that is kinda workable (sometimes). There are factually companies that don't have hierarchies, are cooperatively owned by everyone, and still manage to stay in business, and they achieved this by being allowed to own means of production privately (they aren't sharing with every other shop necessarily) and operate in voluntary markets with voluntary associations. With private investment, and ownership of the means of production, you can still get cooperatively owned enterprise.

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