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The whole point of America is that it's every man for himself. The reason our ancestors traveled here was to get rich and be free. They did not immigrate here to work for "good of society." You can immigrate to Cuba if that's your goal. Personally, I am business for myself. The whole reason why human civilization advanced is because people wanted to advance their own self-interest. Think about it: some caveman invented a spear because he wanted to eat mammoths.
If I had to bet, you continue to live in the USA even though your socialist brethren decided to work together to defeat the Nazis in WWII for the "good of society"; that you continue to drive on highways that were cooperatively constructed for the "good of society", and that you continue to enjoy the benefits of police and fire protection that are established via pooled monies for the "good of society".
Individualism always has been and always will be part of the human dynamic -it's a matter of how much it is suppressed.
Privacy and individualism (different things) are abilities of an autonomous mind. Our natural tendencies lead us towards social and communist practices.
If I had to bet, you continue to live in the USA even though your socialist brethren decided to work together to defeat the Nazis in WWII for the "good of society"; that you continue to drive on highways that were cooperatively constructed for the "good of society", and that you continue to enjoy the benefits of police and fire protection that are established via pooled monies for the "good of society".
It's just a guess.
Public works aren't 'socialist' and neither is the military. Even Adam Smith believe these things should be paid for by the collective.
Privacy and individualism (different things) are abilities of an autonomous mind. Our natural tendencies lead us towards social and communist practices.
They lead us towards social practices.
Communism is different though - it's a created political theory resulting from individualistic thinking. The small band of low tech hunter gatherers isn't a correct analogy on how societies should work.
Communism is different though - it's a created political theory resulting from individualistic thinking. The small band of low tech hunter gatherers isn't a correct analogy on how societies should work.
Communism/socialism are a terms that predate Marx and the 19th century, there terms based on the concepts of collective mutual aid.
Hunter gather tribes are just one example of this natural tendency, that only ceases to exist with external factors like profit motive and state coercement. Technology doesn't change this underlining behavioral aspect. It is the process by which natural selection evolved humans.
Communism/socialism are a terms that predate Marx and the 19th century, there terms based on the concepts of collective mutual aid.
Hunter gather tribes are just one example of this natural tendency, that only ceases to exist with external factors like profit motive and state coercement. Technology doesn't change this underlining behavioral aspect. It is the process by which natural selection evolved humans.
All human societies are an example of natural human tendencies, otherwise we wouldn't have involved into multiple economic and political systems.
All human societies are an example of natural human tendencies, otherwise we wouldn't have involved into multiple economic and political systems.
Not necessarily.
The hunter gatherer tribes formed naturally without any external coercion. When you get to the age of empire and divine authority, people still communicated and interacted locally but it was twisted by a contextual outside force.
Same with capitalist businesses today, the money motive and the material marketing distorts human nature into a consumer when they were original individual producers.
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