The New Sea Territory wrote:Luziyca wrote:Personally, I am some sort of left-leaning person. I believe that the state should at least have a welfare state and nationalize industries crucial for national interests, though I want to preserve small-scale capitalism (ordinary small businesses won't be affected, and neither would large corporations that treat their workers well).
Is that not just social democracy?Yet, in recent times, I find myself disillusioned with the current state of humanity, and I am no longer certain if it is worth trying to rid humanity of their innate barbaric instincts such as greed, racism, and xenophobia, let alone control them.
Can greed not be a basis for communism?
I don't see how racism and xenophobia are "innate" if the national, ethnic and racial identities they are not innate, but a development over the course of history.
Yes, but I mean like how people are greedy and tend to take the best things for themselves. Capitalism is the best way to exploit greed.
Also, I think for as long as history has existed, there has always been an "us against them" mentality. Since this seems to be witnessed across the world, it is probably human nature. They may have progressed, but the primordial structure remains as is.
National identities though were a more recent innovation, I can tell you that.