From a recent convo:

When the richest people in a country are the politicians & their family members that's a pretty solid indication that it's a corrupt dictatorship.

Govt price controls have Cuban engineers & doctors (highly skilled people) wasting their time working as taxi drivers to pay the bills.

More generally, communism is a philosophy designed to sell slavery to the slaves.

First, it's "you deserve a bigger share of what those rich people have," then the stupid masses cheer while politicians steal everything from anyone who is wealthy.

Next, they demonize the mom & pop business owners as though they are the new rich trying to hurt everyone by raising prices, which naturally happens when the wealthy big business contracts that made shipping & other forms of large scale business activity affordable are gone. It was those things that made it inexpensive for mom & pop stores to just add in their orders, but now mom & pop's orders have to cost enough to justify running whole ships or whole production plants.

And once mom & pop are destroyed it becomes "you work & we all share," which is basically the direct & brutal slavery they were always aiming for, where they control your job, your pay, your access to food & healthcare, & as a result they control everything you do. If a politician wants your wife he can have her because you can be jailed for any reason at all, or you can have your food allowance discontinued.

People who idolize #Che & #Castro are literally worshiping mass murders who enslaved a small country to enrich themselves. But it's not just stupidity & greed that draw people to communism, it's also often a deep sense of hatred for the world rooted in an inferiority complex that produces anger toward any sign of achievement or accomplishment or understanding. People who are really screwed up inside want the outer world to reflect their inner chaos.

#communism is the opposite of #liberty