Communism vs America

A commune is generally formed by a group of people that do not like what they see in the world. They think that they can do a better job of creating a community that works and plays together than what they see around them. So these people get together, buy land, and build a new community, one apart from the world. They do their best to be self sufficient and usually only deal with outsiders when they absolutely have to.

While this might seem like a nice ideal there are some flaws with it. For one, there tends to be a rather large prejudice that builds up. Space is usually limited so only a select few can be included. And people that are part of the commune are automatically trusted associates and people outside of it are automatically subconsciously villianized.

There is also a great degree of selfishness involved when you have the power to do a great good and you confine it within a small group, especially one that avoids others at all cost. People who form such a commune are not making the world a better place. They are basically robbing the world of good influences and leaving others to deal with a higher concentration of the bad.

Take America on the other hand. Our country was originally founded by people who were, much like many communists, tired of being persecuted. The difference here is that in America there was a vast unknown amount of land. And all were welcome. We set up a system of government to protect the rights of those newly arrived as well as those who were already here.

In addition to accepting others from all walks of life with different political, religious and social beliefs, America does not avoid the rest of the world. The Unites States has trade agreements with many different countries around the world. We share technology to the mutual benefit of all involved.
We get involved in conflicts around the world. We do our best to keep things fair and just. When possible we share our ideals that all men should be free to live their lives as we do. We do what we can to make life better for others. We strive to make the world in our image just as we constantly work to improve that image. We do our best to make the world a better place.

And that is one of the major flaws with communes in general. They make life better for its participants but do not help the world at all. Having said all this, I live in a rather small commune that involves just a single house. We share everything, our bills, our income, our food and our philosophy.

In America our form of federal government is called a democracy but is actually more like a republic. And as a people we say this is the government we believe in. Yet most houses are run like dictatorships or monarchies. Think about that...

There never was any doubt about our political beliefs. Democracy is the best system in the world and is the way we run our commune. The pooling of our resources just seemed to make the most sense as a way of making sure that all necessary bills got handled. So, we run a democratic commune.

Unlike most, we have a plan that involves growing and spreading out, taking our philosophy to the world and making it a better place to be. We believe that our small group of like minded nonjudgemental individuals allows people a safe haven to be able to focus internally and deal with the issues that keep them from being happy people. It is our goal to find people who are unhappy with their lives, to assist them in changing into the people they want to be and whenever possible to include them in our numbers so that we can assist an ever larger number of people as time goes on.