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(Score: 4, Insightful) by PocketSizeSUn on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:37PM
Seems to me he must be thinking of socialism/communism as their theoretical goals and not as their actual implementation.
The implementation of communism transitions to an authoritarian oppressive regime in only a few years.
Socialism takes a bit longer.
Anarchy (the fairest of any system) unfortunately is so highly susceptible to a dictatorship that it can be guaranteed to transition to one in less than a generation. Realistically it only works for very small communities with no outside threats and lasts about 3-5 years.
So a mix of socialism and capitalism is the best we have in terms of multigenerational stability that provides some level of fairness and individual freedoms. Unfortunately all of these systems are prone to being co-opted so long as humans are drawn to greed and power to which there is apparently no cure :-).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:54PM
It was Plato who already stated ("The State" is the work to look for) that any form of democracy will be followed up by tyranny. The type of economic foundation (Capitalism, Communism, Anarchy/Free market, Socialism) does not matter in this. I'm however not sure, that Capitalism can transcend into Oligarchy first (enough examples worldwide).