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WHY THE COMMUNISTS CAN'T KEEP DEMOCRACY EVEN IF THEY SINCERELY THINK THEY WILL


	Part of Communist doctrine is that the working class is poor,
because the capitalists exploit them, and if the power of the
capitalist is broken, the workers will become more prosperous.

	Another part is that all efforts at labor discipline under
capitalism are exploitative, and this gives rise to efforts to defeat
labor discipline.

	Since these doctrines are not true, there is no increase
in general prosperity when Communists get power.  In fact, because
of the breakdown of labor discipline, there is a decrease.  To the
extent that the business managers have been competent previously,
there is a further decrease when they are replaced by less competent
managers.

	This failure to keep promises, makes it possible to the
opponents of the Communists to gain support.  The only way to retain
power for the Communists is to blame them for the difficulties, and
some examples can always be found.  The result has always been
harsher and harsher dictatorship in spite of the fact that the
Communists have some times had original democratic inclinations.
All sorts of doctrines have developed to justify this.  The nastiest
was Stalin's doctrine of the intensification of the class struggle
as socialism advances.  According to it, the increasing desperation
of the class enemy requires ever severer repression, thus justifying
the purgs of the 1930s.

	The more advanced the country, the more likely a reduction
in living standards when the Communists take over, and the greater
their need will be for a dictatorship.