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Re-read my post.
I was not making any human nature claims about Communism, I was making them about what happens when a dictatorial system is created, no matter how good the original intentions stated as the reason to create it.
The viability or not of actual Communism (as in, a classless system were everybody is equal) is a whole different subject. My point is entirely around the good old "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" effect and how that tends to turns supposedly transitional dictatorial stages into something permanent.
Your opinion does not matter, I am not saying this because you are invalid. I am saying this because this is not the thing i wanna talk with you.
"human nature" these two words mean nothing and even more than being meaningless these two words are harmful. What human nature? Are there any scientific proofs that something is "human nature". It has no logic behind yet it is accepted by you and excepted to accept by the reader.
There is no such thing as human nature. Human nature is when you have two hands. Human nature is not when "if someone gains power the power corrupts the powerholder." there is a chance that it may not occour. It is not certain. the situation of that "human nature" is not very specified. thats why it has no meaning behind it.
The second i wanna point is that the "human nature" is always used against communism. Communism is not well with human nature. okay, sure. What about capitalism. you are either capitalist or communist. You want either private property exist or not. capitalism harms people so it is not very well with human nature either. Power also corrupts in capitalism. Elon Musk is the dictionary defination of power corrupts.
If power corrupts then under capitalism it also is power corrupts if human nature is not well with communism same goes with capitalism.
It is not just you that say this human nature. It is nothing personal. I really do hate that fallacy.
Interesting take. But there is some truth to the notion of 'human nature'. Humans do act certain ways; we retract from pain, we attempt to solve problems and communicate. Whether it is 'human nature' that dictatorship power corrupts people can only be inferred by the examples we have seen. If you can show that a dictatorship didn't lead to abuse of power in some significant number of cases, then it would be proven false. But there's the problem - and it's more of a logical one - no system can make everyone happy and so from at least some perspectives, any political system will be seen as corrupt by some. So we can never have a dictatorship that isn't considered corrupt. Just like we can't have a democracy / capitalist society that isn't considered corrupt by some. All we can do is look at observed general patterns and try to extrapolate. And there aren't enough examples to do a really convincing statistical analysis. So far it seems that humans in power always abuse that power, so it's reasonable to conclude that that is a natural human tendency, like continuing to breath when able.
Yes but these are psychological behaviours of humans. Psychology as it is name suggest psycho-logia is a scientific branch. One must speak about that "human nature" if they have scientific data. And instantly that would not be human nature at all because scientific researches have titles like "the change of bird population in cyprus in tha last 50 years" and not "bird nature"\
It is a generalization not a fact. You cant build up your argument on a generalization and say that it is "human nature". As if humans have evolved by a scientifically approved fact that to do that. While i agree on power corrupts i have awareness of that "if we give one person all the power the probability of it will ruin them is very high. Very bold of someone to label something as "natural".
I am okay with going "statics show that humans are tend to do xyz" I am not okay just saying "human nature"