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Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

It is the law of progress that a few persons must go to the top to show the possibilities and opportunities, so that others might emulate and follow them, wrote GN Lawande in 1958

In view of the importance of Communism at the present time, some acquaintance with the principles which lead men become communists is desirable. It must be said at the outset, that communism is a reaction to capitalism; it is believed by communists that capitalism is the cause of all the present ills that the people face and the only remedy lies in the adoption of communism. 

But if we examine its philosophy we find that it is based on self deluding assumptions which can never be realised in actual practice. The most important of these assumptions is the public ownership of the means of production. It is said that under capitalism wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals and the large number of people is exploited by these privileged few. 

But in any regime providing free opportunity, a small percentage will rise to the top. This fact will cause no injury to anyone if the way is kept open for all persons to strive toward the top, and for each to go as far as he can. It is the law of progress that a few persons must go to the top in order to show the possibilities and opportunities, so that others might emulate and follow them. 

If all the people were to try to march at the same time, then who will guide them? There is every possibility that like goats they may fall in ditches and there will be none to lift them up from their positions.

“Plant a vine, watch it grow, and you will find how human society is carried upward by the individuals who first go upwards.”

It is assumed by the Communists that under Communism alone the proletariat will own the capital and other economic processes of a country; but it appears that communists have either not properly understood the meaning of the term public ownership or they are practising a self-deception or fraud on the minds of the people. 

“The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others”. If this is so, then the terms “public” and “ownership” are contradictory to each other. The Communists have failed to recognise this distinction. If they had realised it, then their argument does not stand; and if it can be shown that the argument is invalid then the whole ideology of communists falls to the........

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