The Human Hive
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”[1]
So what is communism? It is a system which delivers security in exchange for freedom by taking property out of the hands of individuals and into the “collective” or, more accurately, the governance. This carries with it the assumption that the group, or in actuality, the group’s authority figures, can make better decisions for the whole than the individuals. Communism is just another way of insisting upon dependence on the government, not only for protection but for sustenance.
In essence, Communism is a social system based on the hive mentality. In a bee hive, each bee has it’s own duty and it’s needs are provided for. In attempts at communism, the system calls for a leadership which manifests for the bees as a queen and for humans as a dictator. This important point is often overlooked, as that is not how communism is “supposed” to work, however, nature proves otherwise. The core truth in communism is the idea of a commons. This ideal culture of sharing and equality is just as essential to our human nature but has been cloaked in layers of distortion. Perhaps the biggest distortion is that even in a socialist nation, wealth is still being hoarded, it is just ideally being spread out evenly, within the national boarders.
[1] John Grafton, ed., The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865, (New York: Dover Publishing, 2000), 15