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You must force it on them.

In Reply to: Goodies posted by B on March 11, 1999 at 17:25:42:

What communism wants, or what communism is about, I have no beef with. What it actually managed to achieve would not bother me either, were communism an experiment run for and by consenting adults. Which is perfectly feasible in any country in the civilized part of the world. My lines were an attempt to explain why people, whom I assume to be rational, don't choose to run such experiments.

My point about the downward sloping demand curve was about consumption, not about consumerism -- whatever that is. We all consume, and we all have downward sloping demand curves for all goods. That remains true for all humans living under any social arrangements. There will be shortages whenever one attempts to exchange at prices below the equilibrium level -- the price of the market. Rational people don't want shortages. So they won't try communism if they have their druthers. You must force it on them. Why would you do that?

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