Don't Fall for Communism. We need Moderation and soon.

It seems that throughout history, that Communism when it has sprung up has eventually failed.

Usually after a large number of deaths of ordinary citizens, before communist governments realise the gig is up and they can no longer control the masses and then (as we saw in the Early Nineties) the people rather violently take back control. 

I can hear a lot of chatter about how Communism would solve all the ills of the Western World. I can see the attractions of the Communist philosophy, I really can. It is seductive: everyone works for the common good, everyone gets rewarded and everyone is looked after.

Bu what that means is that everyone is condemned to a meagre existence. There is no aspiration, no reward. Everything is or the good of the party (not the people) and aspiration and reward are consigned to decadent history.

DO NOT fall for the communist philosophy. It is seductive for those at the bottom of the heap. Those that cannot get a house, those on minimum wage, those who cannot aspire. Taking back resources from the rich seems a fair and equitable result for the exploitation of the workers. 

But, Communism keep you repressed. It keeps you existing, when humans want and need to live. 

Yes, the rampant, unfettered, corrupt capitalism we have at the moment does need to be reigned in. The acquisition of extreme personal and especially corporate wealth needs to be  looked at and if necessarily dealt with. 

With corporations, I would  end the maximisation of profits by minimising wages, eradicating research and development and instead paying insane amounts of profits in dividends to shareholders. 

Corporations that try and avoid paying corporation tax ion the UK on profits earned in the UK should be penalised.

Corporations that maximise profits by paying a large percentage of their workforce minimum wage should be penalised too.

Corporations that refuse to invest in their own corporations by paying decent living wages and by not investing in research and/.or development should likewise also be penalised.

I would find other ways to curtail the excessive profits for instance of the energy companies and utility companies.  We rely in their products and the price of their products is of national significance. Such industries should have a higher level responsibility and if necessary control.

I would not jump on the Full Socialist or Communist train. I will nudge corporations, especially global corporations towards re-investment in the UK, not asset-stripping, or shipping money abroad.

Not least, if there is a push towards Communism from the left, then there will equally be a push-back and a move towards Fascism from the opposite spectrum. We are seeing the latter at the moment, with restrictions on all sorts of facets of our lives. 

We need a middle ground, we need moderation in government and governance.