competition is a key component of a healthy society.
there are only 3 ways to undertake any task:
Work: The day to day drudgery, and upon completion of each day's tribulations, all you have is the sure knowledge that you will have to do more of it tomorrow. there is no accomplishment, only the task. this is the life of a slave.
Compete: To test yourself against another, or the clock, or against yourself, striving for success, to win, and in winning you find satisfaction and joy. in failure you find the resolve to try harder next time.
Play: Winning and losing are irrelevant, joy and success are found in the effort, and the only way to lose is to not play. and if youre lucky you get to play again tomorrow, Yay!
collectivists desire that everyone Work. and Work. and Work until finally they collapse atr their machines, or in their feilds and other workers haul them off to the Protein Recyclers where they can become nutritious Soylent products to nourish other workers at their labours.
collectivists are deathly afraid of people who Compete, since thye are driven to succeed, which makes them dangerous. this was supposed to be eliminated from the Proles during the De-Radicalization phase of the post-revolution reformation.
collectivists cannot comprehend those who Play. they are a mystery since they are nearly impossible to control, so we had better line them up and shoot them, just to be safe.
capitalists dearly love Workers. the Work and Work and Work until they fall over at their machines, or in their fields, and are hauled off to the Protein Recyclers...
capitalists dearly love those who Compete, since they strive for success, and thats what capitalism is all about. contrary to popular belief, capitalists dont hate those who become rich, as long as you dont get rich in THEIR line of work. Diamond Moguls dont care how rich Oil Magnates get, or how wealthy Steel Barons become, they only worry about other diamond merchants who may be cutting into their profit margin.
capitalists have no idea how to deal with those who Play. but those gadflies dont cut into their profits, so let them prance about in feilds of wildflowers as long as they dont spill bongwater on my bentley
Iv'e never met a communist who Worked
i know very few communists who Compete
most true communists just Play, whether they are tending their garden, or their weed, or making tye died t-shirts to sell at reggae on the river, or carving elaborate pipes out of soapstone, or chasing butterflies through the feild where im trying to fix their tractor...
anarchists are perplexing, they mostly seem to Compete but rather in the way that Don Quixote Competes with giants. anar5chists always seem to be pissed off at somerthing and are almost always preparing some new means of tilting at some windmill or other.