Why is Communism So Opposed?

Huxley wrote:

Additionally, I often agree with Marx politically, and he doesn't have as nasty a history to tackle as the Gulag (though a lot of his analysis is dated, at this point)

Do you approve of dispossessing emigrants and "rebels" (read: anti-communists), then? It's one of the bullet points in Marx's Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2, third-to-last paragraph, item 4).

I do not. But I also think that Marxism, as a political teleology and point of view for cultural criticism, is larger than the Communist Manifesto.

Huxley wrote:

I do not. But I also think that Marxism, as a political teleology and point of view for cultural criticism, is larger than the Communist Manifesto.

I realize that. But since you're calling yourself a Marxist, I consider it fair game to probe you about anything Marx wrote. Do you disagree?

I would say that it's fair, but interpretation plays a large role in how one receives a thinker. This is why I pointed out other points on which I disagree with what Marx wrote and gave you my quick run-down interpretation of Marx with respect to modern political structures.

The military is a government monopoly , it has no opposition for the work it carries out. It may sub contract its supplies but so does corporate monopolies.

Health care is a subject that needs debating on its own, not lumped in with the idea that socialism in general is assumed to be undemocratic communism. If the majority of a countries citizens decide on social insured health care, what would be your problem?

Do you want me to give a few examples where in practical terms its impossible..

Would you oppose a health service that would be of benefit for everyone and it cost you three times less than what you pay now?

Now who is being naive? Do you really think everyone paying for health care is getting more than they pay for?

Night Ripper wrote:

Now who is being naive? Do you really think everyone paying for health care is getting more than they pay for?

Maybe, under the current system, average patients are getting less than they pay for because of excessive market failure. Maybe, under universal healthcare, people will be getting better value for their money because government intervention will have corrected the market failure. A comparison of costs and benefits across countries suggests that this is true of Medicare-for-all countries like France and Canada, and Veterans-service-for-all countries like the UK. Admittedly though, they don't support xris's factor of three.

I paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. I will never get that money back in services. Most of that money will go towards other people. Trying to tell me I'm saving money under socialism is obviously false.

Well lets hope you dont need the care you so despise. Maybe you will refuse it , but I doubt it.

A water authority taken over by a corporate company. Now you tell me where else I can get my water from ?

The set up costs are too prohibitive.

Night Ripper wrote:

I paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. I will never get that money back in services. Most of that money will go towards other people. Trying to tell me I'm saving money under socialism is obviously false.

I wasn't talking about socialism, I was talking about universal healthcare. Moreover, I wasn't trying to tell you that you'd be saving money. I wasn't talking about you at all. Instead, I was talking about the average patient. Remember, just because you think everything is about you, that doesn't mean I have to.