21 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Nov \ on: Communism On Paper vs. Actual Communism libertarian
The most fundamental argument against Communism, well established by Mises, is that not only it fails catastrophically in practice, but it's fundamentally flawed even in its own ideal theoretical frame: Communism proposes to solve The Calculation Problem via central planning, declaring that infinite, random variables are manageable by a small group of people in a deterministic way. The Pigeonhole principle implies that assumption is physically impossible, which is one of the reasons Communism, in it's inability to manage the entirety of reality in a deterministic way, tries to reduce nature. That's why it always tends to denaturalize men: only grey colour, single wardrobe line, single thought, only one state media, only one approved book, only a set of approved food, only one car company, etc etc etc. The inhuman nature of communism is actually a visual symptom of a desperate attempt from the omnipotent central planners to reduce reality to something they can manage.
So in strict terms, I would change the meme and place the "Communism in Theory" text right above where the "Communism in Practice" text.