Communism vs. Capitalism vs. Nature
Question from the Internet:
What is the kind of communist mentality that is bad for human society?
I am not sure what you mean by “communist mentality.”
“Communism” is one of our arbitrary and misguided human ideologies or philosophies born from our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and exploitative human nature.
While “Capitalism” is a direct projection and representation of this human nature, “believing” in unrestrained individual freedom and individual right to control, manipulate, exploit, and consume whatever possible for the egotistic self, “Communism” is a reaction to it as a result of human societies always becoming unequal, oppressive and manipulative when the human ego can reign free.
Of course, since behind “Communism,” we find the same human nature, moreover restraining individual uniqueness and forcing an artificially equal society on self-centered and egotistic individuals is unnatural, “Communism” also becomes inevitably unequal, oppressive, and manipulative.
As we can see from history, neither can serve as a stable foundation for human life and human society; they both lead to conflicts, wars socioeconomic collapse, and in both systems, a small minority controls manipulates, and exploits the masses.
And while both ideologies and systems have negative and destructive qualities, they also contain elements and truths we need to take into consideration when we consider the type of social, governing, and economic arrangement that could serve as a stable foundation.
We are all born as unique individuals with special abilities, qualities, and conditions. And there is no way we can be forced to become all the same; we can never accept doing the same jobs and roles for society, while we also can’t accept being rewarded and renumerated the same when we perform different jobs and roles on different levels.
On the other hand, we are born from nature, and we still exist in nature’s fully and mutually integrated and mutually complementing system, where the idea of “infinite possibilities and infinite resources where each can achieve whatever they want” is simply untrue. Moreover, anything we accumulate and consume for ourselves that is beyond our natural necessities automatically and inevitably leads to harm and destruction — like when cancer develops in the body.
In such a natural, mutually integrated, and interdependent system, we have absolute and irrevocable mutual responsibility for each other, regardless of our agreement or consent. Whether we are aware of this or we like it or not, we are all like individual cells of the same, closed and mutually integrated natural system where the life, health, survival, and prosperity of any individual are intimately intertwined with the life, health, survival, and prosperity of the whole.
Thus perfect society is neither Communistic nor it is Capitalistic. A perfect and sustainable human society has to resemble nature’s closed and integrated living systems — like the human body, for example.
In a perfect society — which we will have to learn and practice if we want to continue our collective human survival and development in nature’s system — each individual needs to find and fulfill one’s most optimal role and function towards the whole while justly and proportionately receiving everything one needs and deserves in order to maintain that crucially important and irreplaceable mutual contribution towards others.
This is how we can adapt our egocentric, subjective, and individualistic nature into a natural system that operates and survives based on the principle of “one for all and all for one.”