As you point out about private finance, we have yet to find a way to keep "common ownership" both democratic and stable. Meanwhile, communist style systems are not democratic.
I'm not against common ownership, and am in fact a Leftist. I'm just saying that history thus far has shown that common ownership is not sufficiently stable to survive uncorrupted for decades. I don't have an idea at this point of the solution going forward. There is an inherent contradiction in the idea of powerless-becoming-powerful. Powerful leaders emerging from the powerless always, eventually, abuse (their own) powerless. I'm convinced it's at the root of the problem. The best I can come up with is that, somehow, the powerful must not be allowed to concentrate as sociopaths.
Since the definitions of Left and Right have gone FUBAR anyway in the West, I now use this one: Right prioritizes freedom, or individual functioning. Largely in reaction to the dysfunctions of unrestrained freedom of large populations, Left prioritizes fairness, or group/social/cooperative functioning. Both kinds are necessary to a healthy, large-population society. That's why forced 2-party systems like the US form perpetually into (ostensibly) Left and Right buckets.
As you point out about private finance, we have yet to find a way to keep "common ownership" both democratic and stable. Meanwhile, communist style systems are not democratic.
I'm not against common ownership, and am in fact a Leftist. I'm just saying that history thus far has shown that common ownership is not sufficiently stable to survive uncorrupted for decades. I don't have an idea at this point of the solution going forward. There is an inherent contradiction in the idea of powerless-becoming-powerful. Powerful leaders emerging from the powerless always, eventually, abuse (their own) powerless. I'm convinced it's at the root of the problem. The best I can come up with is that, somehow, the powerful must not be allowed to concentrate as sociopaths.
Since the definitions of Left and Right have gone FUBAR anyway in the West, I now use this one: Right prioritizes freedom, or individual functioning. Largely in reaction to the dysfunctions of unrestrained freedom of large populations, Left prioritizes fairness, or group/social/cooperative functioning. Both kinds are necessary to a healthy, large-population society. That's why forced 2-party systems like the US form perpetually into (ostensibly) Left and Right buckets.