Out of nowhere, I started thinking about a phrase in a letter I read in the 70s from an my elderly Aunt Amith, where she mentions a conversation she overheard, probably around 1919 or so, about communism. The conversation was between my two grandfathers, Tom Landers, and Marion Spaar. Of course, as history tells us, the cruel ambitions of communism’s leader, Josef Stalin, made it a bad word. Communism is a parallel to socialism, and in simple terms it means a sharing of a nation’s wealth with all living citizens of a country. Medicine and legal issues are to be distributed by need, not a citizen’s economic importance. In Russia, when strict discipline was relaxed, communism failed. It provided no incentives for work and individual progress. I have always leaned toward socialism, and I think that it is fair to all humans to share medical and legal procedures. I think that it is not good that certain people or groups of people claim a portion of a nation’s wealth that is totally out of proportion to the value that they provide to other citizens. I hate inflation, where bread is often over $4 a loaf, a can of beans is $1.83, and most of it to employees who expect constant salary and benefit boosts. Of course, not just in food but in clothes, gasoline, space rental, and all other ‘necessities’. But this is better than no incentives at all, as we do not want our democratic economic bubble to burst, do we?
Posted on: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:58:13 +0000
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