The economic distortions inherent in the system require either a cannibalization of the existing resources and productivity or a constant outward expansion. Both end up disenfranchising a majority of the population.
But I do not think that it is inevitable that all communist societies will ‘fail’ anymore that a free democratic system is destined to succeed into perpetuity.
A free society requires mantainence in that each subsequent generation is required to adopt and uphold it values, or it will inevitably fail.
Conversely a communist society will trudge along, in in misery, indefinitely, until some catalyst comes and pops the bubble of its bankrupt ideology. Reagan was such a catalyst
He understood that collectivist societies were the natural state of mankind through history and that it was a freedom loving society, with constitutional rule of law and protection of individual right which was the far more fragile proposition.
It seems to be a point lost on most modern observers as we have take our republic and the freedoms that it protects, for granted. People who disparage Reagan are ignorant.
He knew what the end of this game was, and he bought us 30 more years to fix it, which we’ve squandered. Now we are in the forth quarter and the clock is running out, unless a whole bunch of people wake up soon.
Donald Trump is Reagans true ideological heir
Reagan was the last great president (Before Trump).
He was for smaller government and hated communism. He was able to bypass the MSM and communicate a conservative message directly to the masses which the influenced political discourse for 2 generations. It took 3 decades and 4 presidents and for the Bushes(who hated Reagan) the libs and deep state to chip away at his accomplishments.
If he had not been elected, the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War and we would have capitulated to communism and be in a much darker place than we are now.
Most millennials don’t understand the Cold War and only know Reagan from their lib teachers and the lib media, all who hated Reagan
Except the NAZIs were the ultimate expression of German degeneracy of the time. Naked socialistic, anti-Christian, degeneracy.
No one did more to destroy and discredit ‘German culture’ and ‘western culture’ than the NAZIs
People forget that Hitler had made a pre-war pact with Stalin to divide, conquer and destroy Europe and western capitalist democracies, and divy up the spoils, and to usher in a new age of European totalitarian socialism. And that’s exactly what they did.
The only difference between the NAzIs and Bolsheviks were that the NAZIs replaced the concept of ‘race’ as opposed to the ‘class’ struggle in the terms of socialist Marxist ideology. Both degenerate to the core
Just in time for the ‘Second wave’