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Then again, I’m not a capitalist or a socialist or a communist. I follow capitalism only because to those like myself, it’s the next best thing, and we kinda need permission to reestablish the “true system” (we see Communism, Socialismn,m Fascism, and al other similar “isms” as the Devil’s cheap counterfeits of this system).
I’m a “Religious Voluntary Communalist”, aka: a follower of the “United order of Enoch”: through promises of blessings and cooperation, no fear, no gulags, no government force, the haves willingly give of their excess to a place called a “Bishop’s Storehouse” which the have-nots can come to to pick up what they need. It worked because all those who were of the haves could at any time become have-nots in certain fields, thus needing something from the Storehouse. Private property is enshrined in the system, and participation is voluntary. There’s no punishment for not participating, except for possibly the scorn of one’s neighbors for being selfish, but what is your private property is yours until you “consecrate” is, or donate it to the Storehouse. The “means of production” could only be given to others if consecrated, and the system worked for quite a while (the final settlement using it stopped in 1905 when permission to practice the Order was withdrawn from them).
Of course, everything has weaknesses, and just like Communism and the like, human greed is the weakness of the Order. While in the other “isms”, greed results in power grabs and totalitarian regimes, in the Order, all was well until a man was requested to consecrate 100 acres of land for poor settlers. he agreed, but when they started to move in, he suddenly changed his mind and demanded they get off “his land” or be driven off, even though he’d already willingly relinquished control of it to the Storehouse. If he wanted to keep it, he should have declined first, but that’s where everything started to fall apart.
Others like me all believe that our religious leaders will one day grant approval to reboot the Order, and this time, it won’t fail. the White of the Order will fight the Red of Communism, and the White Counterrevolution will bury the Red revolution in the annals of history forever!
tl;dr: It’s not too long, so either read it or say nothing. if you never reply or acknowledge it, I can already see that you didn’t read it well enough.