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Sunday, April 11, 2010

You know why communism failed in reality?

Because communism is a philosophy that was birthed out from a man who was insecure.

Why I say so?

This man was jealous that he could not be successful

(It does not mean I do not sympathize his plight that as an academic, he was earning peanuts and not well-respected as the academics are today.)

and that explained why he dreamt of a utopia where everyone can be equal (which I believe there is nothing wrong with it? Who does not dream for a greater humanity? A man with no dreams shall perish as I myself can testify it.)

However, I do not know whether it was the communist "revolutionarists" who misintepreted his ideology but it turned out in reality everyone was wishing they will be happier being equally poor.

That is the part of ideology which I strongly disagree.

It is like since I cannot be successful mentality, I want everyone to be equally worse off as me.

So you get the gist why I say it is an insecure philosophy?

(I stand here being corrected as I do not claimed to be a sociology major, neither do I really know what was the state of Karl Marx's mind when he wrote that or if he was being misintepreted over the years. Who knows he was refering to an ideology of being equally rich?)

I believe the like-minded people will attract like-minded people.

Afterall, humans are just instinctly bonded with common interests.

(That is a pretty interesting human behavior I would like to explore one day.)

Thus, this insecure theory attract the like-minded people-the insecure people.

Before I continue, people may perhaps think that I am some communism-bashing democratic woman and that my argument seems to be really childish (from an academic's point of view); childish in the sense I cannot really substantiate my evidences and critics would probably summarise my argument that communism=insecurities by now.

Please do not get me wrong.

Who can say inside capitalism, there is no insecurities?

I think it surfaced even more so in our capitalistic societies!

Ever feel jealous when you see your best friend doing better academically in school than you?

Mind you, I am not refering to your enemy, your own best friend!

Or that little tinge that you want to be happy for your friend who clinched leadership position in any organisations:churches/schools/CCAs etc but you feel disgusted the insecurities that welled up inside of you.

Or when you see your relatives doing better than you financially due to recent promotions or business prosperity and you go, in Singapore rat race context, aiya, sian! why not me?

Then, we start saying the person do not deserve it because of his weaknesses. (That is the disgusting part of insecurities which I presume everyone hate and yet we cannot bring ourselves out of it.)

Who can claimed we are perfect in the first place?

My sociology lecture once mentioned that the failure of government is due to the failure of ideologies.

To me, the failure of ideologies is due to failure of men.

I think Karl Marx really has some great ideas intellectually speaking but the spirit was just all so wrong.

We are all inherently selfish/insecure. No matter what ideologies we birth out, be it communism or capitalism, it bound to "fail" by the world standard of failure.

Insecurities kill people.

Not just emotionally, spiritually but literally;

as you can see in the consequences of history.

Before people accursed me of being an elitist, uncaring product of Singapore meritocratic system,

I would like to state that I too have my dreams, I dream that everyone can be equally rich, where everyone is secure of our achievements and do not have to put people down.

DPM makes a good point in recent ministeral forum,

"We can make everyone better off (in terms of economic goods) in society, but we can never make everyone more happy."

Come on people, let start a new revolution today: Fight insecurities!

If Karl Marx can have his theory, so can we.

If his theory can survive a few decades, we can too.

Pardon for my poor English. Please feel free to comment.