cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
you’re making progressThey murdered people because Lenin was a narcisst and Stalin was a psychopath in a culture where life was cheap, as it still is. Both communists and far right Nazis murdered millions, so did Mao in China and Popot in Cambodia. Ideology has little to do with it, authoritarian governments do though. At least communism got off the ground and lasted for 80 years, some dumb bastards advocate Libertarianism, a system so bad nobody on the planet ever adopted it! You would need to put a gun to folk's heads for that one too!
Like it or not we are all headed for communism, if our global civilization keeps going as it has, machines will do most of the work and work will become a privilege, not a right. Technology allows welfare states, we will have the means for people to either live lives of leisure or become useless mouths to feed. Technological progress is not steady, but the rate of change accelerates over time. Already tens of thousands have been thrown out of work by automation in electronic assembly, it's getting so automated it can now be economically on shored.
Trade makes ya rich and it's been known for a long time the more trade the greater the wealth and standard of living, globalization works. So do multicultural societies, when immigrants arrive today, they mostly do so by plane and with the internet they can bring their culture with them and talk to the folks back home, they don't assimilate as they once did. In a couple of decades Spanish could be an official language in America, they weren't immigrants, but were a founding people, along with the natives, English, French and Spanish, they didn't come to modern America, America came to them.
*narcissist