B0ycey wrote:Naturally we need to accept Marx’s stateless society for such a concept of unity to become a reality @JohnRawls - and as such a time when we can all share the spoils that the Earth can provide.
But ultimately for Communism to work human nature needs to be less greedy. Can human instinct repent such thinking? I doubt it. So the closest we will ever get to a functioning socialist state is through Centrism. A free market economic model, nationalised vital structure and tax credits for the poor. And that is really where Maduro/Chavez went wrong. They focused their economy on oil when the price was high and didn't consider an economic model where the price was low.
Well, that is how centralisation of vital industries work. This is how they planned to give this tax credit to the poor.(AKA nationalise the oil to work for the people) The problem with that model is that once you do that, instead of spending the profit in to technological improvement, expansion of production, calculations on how the market will procede you start spending that profit to give the credit so the industry collapsed. (In reality it collapsed because of more reasons actually compiled on top of that)
But that applies to many industries not just oil in Venezuela. If you are going to spend profits of some industry to give it to somebody else besides the business then you remove the incesitive for that industry to exist/improve in the eyes of the people who actually work in this industry. Now this applies if you do it for all of the profit. Liberal social democracy find a stable balance of sorts in that regard. But socialism and communism did not as history shows.
Once again, we come to the point where liberal values are better in this regard and capable of achieving things that communism/socialism fails at.