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RE: It wasn't my choice... What has that phrase lead us to?
It appears we have been thinking in parallel of late. The socialist insists that his totalitarian aims are different from all the other nigh-identical totalitarian failures in the name of socialism. Meanwhile, he simultaneously insists that free markets and corporate collusion with government must share the same blame despite being diametrically opposed ideologies. I encourage socialists to form voluntary communes, but ask that they show me that it works for true believers before I consider joining in. That makes ME the totalitarian in their minds. Insanity reigns.
I've never seen a voluntary socialist anything. It seems to immediately violate the concept of "voluntary". :)
There do seem to be a few small cooperative communities that sorta-kinda make it work, but there's no room for growth or innovation, they can't tolerate freeloaders for even a moment, and they rely on producing goods to sell outside their communities to prosper at all. Ironic?
Well plus it is only voluntary as long as they all 100% agree. Once even one of them disagrees on something and is forced to comply with the will of the rest it no longer is voluntary.
I really only see something like that as voluntary if they were all 100% clones of each other.
Even with clones, it would be more like Calvin's duplicator fiasco in the comic strips than the socialist single-minded Utopia.
Yeah, it truly is the antithesis to freedom. The sad thing is you can see the "simple" ideas that sound really good, and sound like they are helping the "needy" and compassionate. Yet they "sound" that way, but history has proven time and time again they are not. Plus, they cannot exist as a voluntary system... thus they cannot be truly free.